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\"Analyst<\/p>\n

Ready for H Day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So H-Day<\/em> has arrived, and we can finally reveal what it actually means.\u00a0 It’s the day Horses for Sources became more than a blog… today it becomes an advisory analyst organization focused exclusively on researching global outsourcing strategy.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

So why on earth do this?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A natural and logical progression.<\/strong>\u00a0 Simply put, it’s a natural progression for Horses<\/em>.\u00a0 Having developed such an effective community for collecting so many opinions, having such strong outreach to all the key stakeholders in the outsourcing business (buyers, vendors, intermediaries, investors, academics etc), leveraging the three-year development of Horses as the platform for a new research organization is the logical next-step.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The outsourcing\u00a0buyer needs a pure analyst organization.<\/strong>\u00a0 While there’s tons of great content floating around out there, there really isn’t one entity that has brought together researchers and <\/em>real practitioners, with real experience,\u00a0to focus purely on researching BPO and global sourcing as a pure\u00a0analyst organization, that doesn’t broker deals or write vendor white papers.\u00a0 Some of the sourcing advisors deliver excellent\u00a0thought-leadership, and they deserve credit for driving the sourcing industry\u00a0over the last few\u00a0years.\u00a0 The large analyst shops have stuck to their IT knitting and have largely\u00a0overlooked BPO – they\u00a0service IT vendors and IT users.\u00a0 Investing heavily\u00a0in sales and research to service\u00a0finance, HR,\u00a0procurement and other operations professionals desperate to learn more about\u00a0outsourcing (not solely IT),\u00a0is not something any of the\u00a0large\u00a0traditional analyst firms have done.\u00a0 You can read, in detail, the challenges and opportunies we face over at SageCircle<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Horses won’t change, we just expanded<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Firstly, the blog remains, and will have even more content and contribution.\u00a0 We’ve exported all the content from “fersht.typepad.com” over to\u00a0this new site\u00a0<\u00a0www.horsesforsources.com<\/a>\u00a0> and\u00a0the blog\u00a0will continue as a front-end to the analyst organization.\u00a0 We are producing a series of premium content reports that you will\u00a0need to be a client to access, but the blog will continue to deliver opinion, and discuss\u00a0many of the key findings from our research.\u00a0 I am encouraging our analyst team<\/a> to set up their own personal blogs in time (if they want to), and several of them will be sharing snippets of their research on the Horses.\u00a0 And we’ll continue to invite industry guests to be interviewed and submit articles.<\/p>\n

A big fat\u00a0personal thank you<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Bottom-line, this wouldn’t have been possible without the ongoing support and participation\u00a0of so many of you over the last three years.\u00a0 I am amazed at the sheer quantity of email and comments I get on a daily basis from people all over the world who visit this thing.\u00a0 All I ask is that you continue to lend your opinion, respond to our surveys, and continue to pass on the good word.\u00a0 End of\u00a0the day, I choose research because I enjoy learning how we can constantly get better at being global, savvy organizations.\u00a0 I do not profess to know how the world will look in 3 years’ time, but if we all continue to debate the issues, the future will gradually unravel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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