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Why Hillary could be the biggest friend of offshore and nearshore outsourcing
The US is an increasingly unattractive place to do business. Let's not make it even worseRead More
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Atos and Xerox exchange holiday gifts, but can they disrupt a market asleep at the wheel?
This transaction focuses both service providers on their strengths and will help them be more effective in the emerging As-a-Service EconomyRead More
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Cooking up NASSCOM’s $50 billion Bangalore biryani
Charles Sutherland shares thoughts on NASSCOM's ambition to grow Business Process exports from $20 Billion in 2014 to $50 Billion by 2020. Read More
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The Indian majors double their market share in just four years – what’s the secret and can they be stopped?
It may be harder for some of the traditional providers to fight their way back into the services game than the Indian majors to continue their surgeRead More
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Day Two at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago…
And, for the first time ever, an analyst has managed to write a "second day" blog at an industry event. So, without further ado, here's HfS' Peter Ackerson with Day TwoRead More
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IBM embellishes its B2B commerce empire… by acquiring Emptoris
Emptoris’ well-regarded user interface and strong brand recognition among the procurement crowd make it an idea mate for IBM’s technology-driven focus and market leading procurement BPO capability. While the integration of Sterling, DemandTec, and Emptoris will take some time to become “smarter commerce”, there will be some immediate upsides.Read More
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Curious about Kurien? TK talks to HfS about his plans for Wipro
Wipro's CEO T. K. Kurien talks to HfS about his plans for WiproRead More
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Sal-sourcing in the real world, Part II
Accenture's head of global BPO, Mike Salvino, is interviewed by HfS Research's Phil Fersht on his future vision for the BPO industryRead More
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From People to Tech arbitrage: Can we really survive this Great Services Transition?
We are in the S-Curve evolution from People to Technology Arbitrage, that the Generative Enterprise demands. This is truly the Great Services Transition, where the entire financial construct of services relationships is being reinvented to capitalize on the complex new ecosystem of AI platform players, hyperscalers, data integration products, automation tools, LLM builders, and so on. Enterprises must address their debts in these four areas which have likely collected over the last 30+ years: People debt, Process debt, Data debt and Technical debt.Read More
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Services firms are out of runway. They must forget Labor Arbitrage and conform to Technology Arbitrage
The fundamental value creation lever in the legacy Labor Arbitrage era has been the centralization of people in a global delivery model. The fundamental value lever in the Technology Arbitrage era is all about architecting and orchestrating the rapidly changing technology ecosystem in line with the client’s business model. It’s past time for the IT and BPO Services industry to jump to a new S-curve driven by Technology Arbitrage if they wish to get back to another season of hockey stick growth.Read More
