Category: Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
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The Horses on National Public Radio: is this the age of homeshoring?
If you happened to be listening to National Public Radio yesterday afternoon, you would have heard an interesting discussion on the rise of homeshoring on their All Things Considered afternoon showRead More
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Up in the air with Ritesh Idnani… Part I
Several people at Infosys have told me that noone spends more time traveling across the globe than the COO for their BPO business... Ritesh Idnani. So when we teed up an interview with him, I asked him how many airmiles he has racked up, and his response was simply "am getting close to George Clooney's character in the movie Up in the Air."Read More
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Deborah Kops, delightful doyenne and describer, joins the HfS research family
Over the next year, you’ll be able to sample some of the most innovative thinking in sourcing change through Deborah Kops' frequent columns and commentary exclusively for HfS ResearchRead More
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A healthcare BPO summit… with Sumit
Healthcare has been on everyone's minds in the US, in the wake of the acrimonious legislative fight and with the recent elections. And when any industry gets the squeeze, us sourcing-folk immediately think "hmmm, will they now do some outsourcing...Read More
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Phil and Esteban—Desperately Seeking Innovation
What are you desperately seeking? Rosanna was Desperately Seeking Susan. Phil and Esteban? If you know them like we do, you know they're Desperately Seeking Innovation. Read More
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Benchmarker Beware!
Benchmarking is a misused and misunderstood tool in outsourcing. Almost everybody’s contract has a provision for benchmarking, and in almost all cases is drives the wrong behavior for both partiesRead More
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HfS Research aligns with the stars with Ray Wang
Today, Ray announced the launch of a very exciting new research venture entitled Constellation Research, which comprises a collection of really smart and remarkable individuals and friends who are - quite literally - changing the way market research and insight is being served up to the technology buyer. HfS Research is delighted to be the alliance partner of IT sourcing and BPO research to Constellation's buy-side community, where we'll be cross-pollinating some research with each other and coollaborating to help educate the sourcing buyer make better decisions.Read More
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Up in the air with Ritesh Idnani… Part III
In the final chapter of our interview with Infosys COO Ritesh Indnani, he elaborates on communication and interaction, and how our industry can rapidly improve collaboration through social media.Read More
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Up in the air with Ritesh Idnani… Part II
In Part II, Ritesh explains the changes in the BPO industry from his perspective - especially the inherent need for providers to align their BPO service offerings with an industry-verticalized approach. Read More
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Innovation in F&A BPO? We have it all right here folks…
This new HfS report dives into the experiences and expectations of a selection of today’s most experienced enterprise Finance and Accounting (F&A) BPO buyers, when it comes to achieving innovation. We spoke to a collection of major F&A BPO customers which have achieved some form of innovation as they went through the F&A BPO experience with a major service provider. Read More





