• It really does roll downhill…

    August 09, 2010 |

    Iit's all about the leader and the team he or she molds under them, to drive the vision and instill passion down through their organizations Read More

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  • Time for HP to shephurd its BPO business

    August 08, 2010 |

    When Mark Hurd took up the reins as HP's boss back in 2005, the company badly needed him to stabilize the business, drive up the stock price, and add discipline and cost-control into many of its global operations. And whatever the reason for his demise (quite frankly, he's not Tiger Woods, so who cares?), he's done what HP needed him to do - and this is a good time to put someone else at the helm who can start closing the gap with IBM and others. In fact, he should have gone sooner, because there's a lot of ground to be made up right across the board. One of those is a flagging BPO business that had outperformed anyone's expectations before the EDS merger threw it into a confused shambles. Read More

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  • Check out our monthly newsletter: “The Finish Line”

    August 07, 2010 |

    Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Finish Line! We will endeavor to gather and distill the significant news and information in global sourcing on a monthly basis to present to you. On selected key issues, we will provide insight and commentary from the Horses team and other thought leaders. We hope that you find The Finish Line useful, interesting and insightful. Read More

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  • Meet the sourcing gangsters in Chicago

    August 06, 2010 |

    HfS has teamed with its networking partner, SSON, to present a superior discussion across the world of finance and sourcing, with Jay Desai, one of the buy-side's most respected voices for sourcing governance, Capgemini's own sourcing sherif David Poole, the pontiff of procurement Jason Busch... all moderated by HfS. Read More

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  • Wang / Fersht uncut. Part II

    August 02, 2010 |

    Analysts Phil Fersht and Ray Wang air some recent discussions on the world of social media and the convergence of software delivery and outsourcing… here’s part II Read More

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  • Wang / Fersht uncut. Part I

    August 02, 2010 |

    Analysts Phil Fersht and Ray Wang air some recent discussions on the world of social media and the convergence of software delivery and outsourcing... here's part I Read More

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  • Herding primadonnas… Welcome to Wendy’s world

    July 29, 2010 |

    Imagine a job where good work is rarely praised and people can only complain that you somehow messed up? Read More

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  • New HfS Report – Desperately Seeking Innovation in BPO: Enterprises Speak Out

    July 24, 2010 |

    Innovation is now the critical ingredient for most buyers of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services –unequivocally proven by a new HfS Research study of 588 shared services and outsourcing executives. This report dives into the experiences and expectations of today’s enterprise BPO buyers when it comes to achieving innovation, and offers actionable recommendations for devising a strategy to improve their innovation agenda with their BPO endeavor. Read More

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  • HfS Research shows some analyst horsepower

    July 19, 2010 |

    HfS Research ranks 15th in the latest analyst "power rankings" by ARInsights, a dynamic content rich database that contains comprehensive information on 5,511 analysts from 694 different firms. Read More

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  • A Cloudy Future for Microsoft?

    July 18, 2010 |

    Microsoft urgently needs to address its approach to Cloud Computing, together with the closely related tablet and smart phone markets, if it wants to avoid falling further behind the likes of Google and Apple in these interrelated markets. Read More

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