{"id":1987,"date":"2008-01-24T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/going-back-to-my-roots\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T13:21:00","slug":"going-back-to-my-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/going-back-to-my-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Going back to my roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fersht.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/01\/24\/amrlogo.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fersht.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/01\/24\/amrlogo_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Amrlogo_2\" height=\"23\" alt=\"Amrlogo_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/images\/2008\/01\/24\/amrlogo_2.jpg\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; I am returning to my analyst roots with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amrresearch.com\/\">AMR Research<\/a>, where I will be studying Outsourcing and Implementation Services markets for AMR&#8217;s enterprise clients.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who know me well, will remember I spent the first 10 years of my career in the analyst community, before moving into the outsourcing advisory world three years&#8217; ago.&nbsp; I have found the practical experience of working on outsourcing and offshoring engagements extremely valuable, but always wanted to go back to my analyst roots at some stage (it kinda gets into your DNA&#8230;).&nbsp; AMR sets such a high standard with its research, has some of the finest analyst minds in the industry, and is in my adopted home town of Boston.&nbsp; Moreover, I am delighted to end my days of waking up every morning in airport Marriotts, stuffing free beer from the concierge lounge in my laptop bag each evening, and getting back to what I love doing best \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; But I do have some pretty decent frequent flyer status&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am returning to my analyst roots with AMR Research, where I will be studying Outsourcing and Implementation Services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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