{"id":2027,"date":"2016-07-16T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/oneoffice-dumboffice_071716\/"},"modified":"2016-07-16T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T16:42:00","slug":"oneoffice-dumboffice_071716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/oneoffice-dumboffice_071716\/","title":{"rendered":"OneOffice or DumbOffice? Service providers are bifurcating again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the old days of labor arbitrage centric outsourcing (which of course doesn&#8217;t happen anymore) we had two quite clearly defined sets of service provider &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The offshore providers<\/strong>, which rarely interacted above director level and did the low end lift and shift routine work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The integrators<\/strong>, which worked primarily with the IT and operations leadership to do the higher end work the ERP integration, often overseeing some of the offshore service providers to make sure they were doing their job.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then the likes of Accenture, IBM and Capgemini realized the offshore firms had eaten their lunch and they rolled out their own offshore delivery functions in 2005-2010 to circumvent the heavy flow of dollars to the Indian-centric majors. Accenture and IBM managed to catch up and compete on price when they needed to, while Capgemini really needed to acquire IGATE last year to be more effective as an offshore provider, in addition to being an integrator. Meanwhile, you had the likes of Deloitte, PwC and E&amp;Y, which chose to stay out of the offshore game and sell integration capabilities as consultants, rather than managed service outsourcers. The losers in all of this were the traditional IT\/BPO services providers, such as HP(EDS), CSC, Xerox(ACS) et al whose lunch was eaten by the offshore providers, struggling to compete on price, scale and flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Then along comes Digital and Automation as the new value drivers and suddenly the <em>game is changing again<\/em> &ndash; labor arbitrage is still a key cost lever, but it needs to be balanced with automation to drive down the cost and increase the productivity even further, while the broader goals of the ambitious C-Suites are to create real digital capabilities to <em>create<\/em> their markets, not play constant catch up to avoid being disrupted.:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/578\/b8f\/df8\/578b8fdf89eb7643955239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #ff6600;\">So what are these two emerging groups of service provider?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>OneOffice Enablers<\/strong> &#8211; focused on designing and enabling the digital customer experience and tying the front to the back to make it all happen (see below). &nbsp;This is<!-- pagebreak --> where I also see the bigger plays around cognitive happening.&nbsp;Lots more project-based deals for the Deloittes, Accentures, IBMs, KPMGs and emerging players, like Cognizant, which are moving up the value chain and developing deep specialization is various areas of the OneOffice environment (see below). &nbsp;We&#8217;ll also see several small consultants emerge in this space with industry specialization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Back Office Outsourcers <\/strong>&#8211; focused on efficiency, automation, arbitrate and scalability. &nbsp;This is where the many of the current crop of offshore-centric and legacy outsourcers will likely end up if they fail to make the right investments&#8230; they will push hard to be in the &#8220;OneOffice&rdquo; category, make a lot of the right noises, but the lion&#8217;s share of their business will be in this group. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/578\/ba2\/83d\/578ba283dc2fc471927814.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/578\/ba2\/83d\/578ba283dc2fc471927814.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/578\/ba2\/83d\/578ba283dc2fc471927814.png\">Click to enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s driving this is a marked sense of urgency we are seeing from enterprise leadership we haven&rsquo;t seen before, where 56% of SVPs and above, in our new Intelligent Operations study, now expect to have intelligent operations in just two years (this number was 30% when we ran a similar study 18 months&rsquo; ago):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/578\/baa\/c2e\/578baac2eca58667457189.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/578\/bac\/d57\/578bacd57e7db930680462.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/storage\/app\/uploads\/public\/578\/baa\/c2e\/578baac2eca58667457189.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #ff6600;\">It&rsquo;s OK to be DumbOffice, there&rsquo;s a big market for it. Just be clear what your endgame is and focus on it<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Back-end IT providers failing to invest in real domain expertise will always be in the feature and functionality game.&nbsp; Automating incident response, some systems management and help desk querying is probably about the limit to where they can do &ndash; but that&rsquo;s OK, there is a market for cheap IT support and services.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s a market for cheap call center work, for cheap collections and cheap claims processing support&hellip; it&rsquo;s just going to get a little smaller and more automated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #ff6600;\">The future growth lies in addressing the impending talent crunch as the digital tech and talent divide reaches seismic proportions&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is all about who can develop intelligent data practices based on automation, digital and cognitive which are tied to industrialized solutions, horizontals such as F&amp;A, HR, procurement, or verticals like retail, healthcare, insurance etc.&nbsp; Who can work with clients who generally can&nbsp;<em>understand<\/em>&nbsp;their businesses, apply their challenges to their industries, and forge solutions that keep them viable in disruptive markets. Ultimately, this is about pulling data from the market and the customer and building a platform at the back end that aligns it to the business.&nbsp; The great variable is the&nbsp;<em>human element<\/em>&nbsp;to evolve to make this really happen (or resist it and watch the companies wither and die).&nbsp; Technology is moving at warp speed, while talent is not &#8211; that is the great digital quagmire enterprise clients need to solve, if they are to be successful down the road.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are <a href=\"\/indias-services-industry-set-to-lose-640000-low-skilled-jobs-to-automation-by\">approaching a talent crunch of seismic proportions<\/a>, possibly more destructive than the industrial revolution, because then people were displaced into new industries that needed <em>people<\/em> to build them&hellip;. now they are being displaced by computers.&nbsp; So let&rsquo;s stop kidding ourselves, the future isn&rsquo;t looking as pretty for employment growth as the last 20 years, so the need to focus and be great and delivering what we are capable of is key.&nbsp; If you do great DumbOffice, then focus on DumbOffice &ndash; there&rsquo;s a market for that and it&rsquo;s not going away anytime soon, but if you have the ability to evolve and keep your talent aligned with the unraveling digital customer, there is real opportunity in the OneOffice world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The Bottom-line: Faster, cheaper, smarter are the watchwords for the Intelligent OneOffice<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, increased complexity is demanding increased expertise at the front office of the business, which, in turn, is demanding the back end to respond with more automated, scalable, seamless enablement capability.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Faster, cheaper, smarter&nbsp;<\/em>are the watchwords for OneOffice services now&hellip; building on the&nbsp;<em>faster, cheaper, better <\/em>from yesterday&rsquo;s world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the old days of labor arbitrage centric outsourcing (which of course doesn&#8217;t happen anymore) we had two quite clearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,78,81,98],"tags":[303,619],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo","category-hfsresearch-com-homepage","category-it-outsourcing-it-services","category-the-as-a-service-economy","tag-enterprise-irregulars","tag-phil-fersht"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OneOffice or DumbOffice? 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