{"id":1546,"date":"2011-02-28T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/happy-birthday-hfs_010311\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:49:00","slug":"happy-birthday-hfs_010311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/happy-birthday-hfs_010311\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday&#8230; HfS Research!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7137\" title=\"One Today!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/One-Today-Panda-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Yes, quite how this ramshackle outfit today celebrates its first birthday is quite beyond me. Exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/why-weve-formed-an-analyst-organization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one year ago<\/a>, we bravely declared we were a research company, with a bunch of friends, stringers and part-timers. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, we are a fully-loaded experienced research organization with depth and\u00a0breadth\u00a0of analyst talent across North America and Europe &#8211; with further expansion plans imminent. \u00a0Hell, decisions used to be so much easier when we had no money&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But seriously, all I can say is a big fat thank you for all your support, encouragement and belief in us as we&#8217;ve built something truly \u00a0game-changing in our industry &#8211; and one stat says it all: \u00a0One year ago we had 16,000 subscribers; today we just surpassed 50,000. One can only guess where we&#8217;ll be in another 12 months.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here&#8217;s a shout out to a few of you who&#8217;ve played your part&#8230;<!-- pagebreak --> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amber Wagenknecht (Accenture): For the warning signs (and my ignoring them)<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Calabrese: Just being a sourcing beast<\/p>\n<p>Bill Kutik: Making me laugh &#8211; out loud<\/p>\n<p>Bob Cecil and Lowell Williams (EquaTerra\/KPMG): Being awesome to work with<\/p>\n<p>Brian Robinson (HfS): From tenant to employee\u2026 a truly loyal chap: )<\/p>\n<p>Bruce McCracken: Being there at the start<\/p>\n<p>Chris Barney (Genpact): For Cardiff\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Chris Gattenio, Don Schulman, Bill Payne and MSR (IBM): Believing in us<\/p>\n<p>David Poole and Carina Smith (Capgemini): Believing in us, oh and making the Magic Kingdom bearable<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Evans (SIG): For your super confidence<\/p>\n<p>Deb Kops (Sourcing Change &amp; HfS): Sounding-board and under-rated marketeer<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Howlett: Just being Dennis<\/p>\n<p>Derek Sappenfield (PwC): For believing in us<\/p>\n<p>Ed Nair (Global Services Media): Being a great supporter and simply a great guy<\/p>\n<p>Emma Beaumont and Sarah Clayton (SSON): Making some super cardboard cutouts &#8211; and all the plugs during lift-off<\/p>\n<p>Esteban Herrera (HfS): For raising our game<\/p>\n<p>Euan Davis (HfS): For the blind leap of faith<\/p>\n<p>Frank Casale (Outsourcing Institute): For finding a reason to call me everyday<\/p>\n<p>Frank D&#8217;Souza (Cognizant): Being our first client<\/p>\n<p>Google Apps: For a cheap, reliable IT platform<\/p>\n<p>Graham Russell (Astrazeneca): The guaranteed entertainment<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Snowdon (HfS): For choosing HfS to make his comeback<\/p>\n<p>Jason Busch (SpendMatters &amp; HfS): For showing how to run a small, feisty business<\/p>\n<p>Jay Desai (Northern Trust): Just calling it how it is<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Achille (Devon Gp): Giving us a professional veneer (when we really needed one!)<\/p>\n<p>John Hindle, Sarah Thomas, Shari Wenker, Mike Salvino and Kevin Campbell (Accenture): Believing in us from the start, oh and plenty of Pink Champagne and Formula 1<\/p>\n<p>John Transier (Unilever): A great sport<\/p>\n<p>Jolie Newman: Just being helpful<\/p>\n<p>Jonty Woodhouse: For making us legal!<\/p>\n<p>Lee Coulter (Acsension Health): Making me laugh &#8211; from the start<\/p>\n<p>Mark Reed-Edwards (HfS): For putting up with me<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Liukin (HfS): The invoice queen<\/p>\n<p>Mike Atwood: Being there in the early days<\/p>\n<p>Mum and Dad: For having complete confidence this would work<\/p>\n<p>My wife: For putting up with all this cr*p<\/p>\n<p>Peter Allen (CSC): Being such a great thinker<\/p>\n<p>Pramod Bhasin, Tiger, Gianni Giacomelli and Bob Pryor (Genpact): Great contributors and supporters<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Leslie Willcocks and Dr. Will Venters (at the London School of Economic): For flouting establishment and partnering with us<\/p>\n<p>Ray Wang (Constellation): Fellow analyst rebel<\/p>\n<p>Ritesh Idnani, Pranay Juyal and Wendy Shlensky (Infosys): Believing in us, and teaching us how to negotiate!<\/p>\n<p>Roxanna Wall (UBS): For always believing in us<\/p>\n<p>Simon Newton (Kimberly Clark): A great sport and a great guy<\/p>\n<p>Stan Lepeak (EquaTerra\/KPMG): Keeping the faith<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Overby (CIO Magazine): \u00a0For giving us media-cred<\/p>\n<p>The Enterprise Irregulars: For providing a remarkable amount of entertainment and value<\/p>\n<p>The old AMR team (now Gartner): Providing such a great platform for HfS &#8211; and not suing us!<\/p>\n<p>The ValueNotes team: For being reliable<\/p>\n<p>Tony Filippone (WellPoint): The vendor governor<\/p>\n<p>TPI: Being good sports&#8230;I know I give you a hard time : )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, quite how this ramshackle outfit today celebrates its first birthday is quite beyond me. 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