Technology acumen and global scale must be enabled with relevant services skills<\/span><\/p>\nWhile we can get overly excited about the emergence of robotics platforms and Digital solutions to create all sorts of disruptive possibilities for enterprises, without the skills to take advantage of them, they’re not going to deliver much value for clients. \u00a0All the smart service providers will be providing all the technology bells and whistles to compliment their global scale by the end of 2015. \u00a0These are quickly becoming table-stake components of delivery, and we are already seeing several clients RFP responses in the field where robotic process automation (for example) is included.<\/p>\n
However, when the vast majority of Indian-heritage provider executives view up-skilling their account managers as their number one challenge, then this is a massive, massive issue. \u00a0In fact, it’s the biggest issue facing global services today.<\/p>\n
What they’re really saying here is that they simply do not have the skills their clients are increasingly demanding and they are really struggling to either bring it in fresh (78%) of develop the ones the have (89%).<\/p>\n
But\u00a0why<\/em> can they not develop the ones they have? \u00a0Because their legacy model of promoting staff to project manage teams of coders \/ transactional processors is leaving them with a skill-set completely unsuited<\/em> to helping clients which need orthogonal thinking, analytical context and an ability to redesign processes. And while this critical challenge is clearly becoming a huge issue for the Indian-heritage firms, \u00a0it’s also besetting two-thirds of the Western-heritage providers, many of whom claim to boast superior consultative acumen.<\/p>\nThe Bottom-line: We need to see a unique blending of consulting and outsourcing acumen<\/span><\/p>\nWhat’s abundantly clear today is that proving scale, standard \u00a0platforms and technology tools will only get you so far with clients. \u00a0Without the bench of talent to enable clients to use these effectively, several providers are going to get quickly ejected from client engagements \u00a0and relegated to providing transactional resources \u00a0for the diminishing number of clients who only care about the low-cost legacy model.<\/p>\n
So if they can’t hire in the talent or retrain what they have, then what, pray tell, is the answer here? \u00a0Simple: create, partner or acquire consulting \u00a0firms which can develop and adapt the right skills and methodology to make this work. \u00a0There needs to be a coming-together of consulting and outsourcing service delivery, the likes of which we have yet to see at a broad scale in the services industry. \u00a0It’s clear the outsourcing culture fosters standardization and stability, not orthogonal thinking and creativity. Finding a way to bridge the two is what is key here – and it’s not something that can happen overnight for many firms so embedded in their current cultures.<\/p>\n
Consulting firms know how to make money out of corporate complexity and insecurity, while outsourcing providers are very good and developing sticky delivery models to manage their clients’ processes and operations. Clients now need both<\/em> – and want these services on a regular, ongoing, plug-and-play As-a-Service model<\/a>. \u00a0They need to be able to go that services dentist and see that digital X-ray of themselves…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was recently inspired by a refreshingly simple and unvarnished blog on the\u00a0The Inflexion Point for the IT Service Industry…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,57,78,80,81,84,86,90,831,830,97,98,837,101],"tags":[303],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo","category-digital-transformation","category-hfsresearch-com-homepage","category-hr-strategy","category-it-outsourcing-it-services","category-mobility","category-outsourcing-advisors","category-robotic-process-automation","category-smac-and-big-data","category-sourcing-change","category-talent-in-sourcing","category-the-as-a-service-economy","category-the-industry-speaks","category-value-beyond-cost-study-2015","tag-enterprise-irregulars"],"yoast_head":"\n
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