Year: 2011
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EXL eyes the enterprise BPO market with acquisition of OPI and the world’s second-most intelligent people
EXL and OPI, two of the smaller Finance and Accounting BPO (F&A BPO) providers, and both recently touted as acquisition candidates in HfS Research's 2011 F&A BPO market landscape, have tied the knot in a surprising merger, in this rapidly-consolidating and transmutating BPO marketRead More
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Utilities: Next Practices for a Stealth Outsourcing Giant
Shhh… Don’t tell anyone, but while most of us weren’t looking, the utilities industry quietly racked up $25 billion in annual spend on outsourcing—that’s in the US alone! How did this happen? How did this get past the regulators and the unions? Who knew that outsourcing would not only grow, but stick, in this most conservative of industries?Read More
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What’s your state of outsourcing in 2011? Your views are critical…
Whether you buy, sell, advise or analyze outsourcing services, YOUR opinion is critical for our new study we're conducting with our academic friends who run the Outsourcing Unit at the London School of Economics.Read More
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Have a read of Outsource Magazine
Have a read of Outsource MagazineRead More
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Where have all the consultants gone?
You’re probably not aware of a very subtle, but tectonic shift going on in the business process outsourcing industry which has implications for all those things that we all tout as benefits of sourcing—innovation, deep domain experience, true client partnershipsRead More
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HfS gets its Ivory Tower!
Tom's joined HfS' leadership lead as our Vice President for Client Services to prove that we do actually care about our clients.Read More
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New HfS Report: “How Latin America Powers Global IT Delivery”
Latin American strategies underpin global delivery with increasingly mature services: Firms investigating service delivery from the region like the cultural familiarity bred by the influence of the US and Europe. Find out "How Latin America Powers Global IT Delivery" by downloadng our new report.Read More
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A tale of two FAO markets: Accenture dominates the enterprise, while IBM sneaks up on the mid-market
One dynamic that has really stood-out over the last three years of the Finance & Accounting Outsourcing business, is the different competitive strategies going on at the high-end of the market versus the smaller engagements. Read More
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The SIG summit report… straight from the horses mouth
We were excited to attend the SIG Summit last week--our first event since we signed our partnership. Esteban Herrera, HfS COO, collected his thoughts on how the SIG Summit compared with typical industry showsRead More
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Want to get innovative? Then give your staff a sense of purpose…
The hidden truths behind what really motivates usRead More





