HFS on Artificial Intelligence

A collection of the latest views from the HFS analyst team on artificial intelligence.

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Market Impact Report

Stop buying AI like labor

Why buying AI-led services on labor-era contracts misprices risk, and five sourcing moves CPOs should make now.

Point of View

The headcount era is fading as the pivot to Services-as-Software™ continues

Eleven service providers are decoupling revenue and margin growth from headcount as Services-as-Software adoption accelerates.

Point of View

Media leaders can explore the next growth wave of agentic AI to reclaim control

How media broadcasters can use agentic AI to reclaim content, community, and commerce from big tech platforms.

Hot Tech

HFS Services-as-Software™ Hot Tech: Revature

Revature unifies recruitment, skills mapping, and deployment on one platform to help enterprises build AI-ready talent.

Hot Tech

HFS Services-as-Software™ Hot Tech: Zime

Zime's AI engine turns your best sellers' behaviors into scoreable guidance so every rep can sell like a five-year veteran.

Highlight Report

Ops leaders need to stop optimizing document processing and start fixing workflows

Document operations, not extraction, is where ops leaders recover cost, cycle time, and margin on document work.

Data Viewpoint

CX buyers want outcome-based pricing, yet their contracts still pay for effort

Most CX buyers want outcome-based pricing, yet only 5% have contracts built to pay for results.

Take 5 Report

With 71% targeting agent-readiness, build your engine before the storefront

59% of enterprises run agents for under 5% of revenue today, but expect 15% or more within two years.

Highlight Report

Health plans must shift left to win for their members in the age of AI

Why health plans must shift left to prevention, using AI for faster prior auth and cost transparency.

Challengers' Code

Crush the watermelon effect with Black Box IntelliPact® model

How Black Box's IntelliPact links IT performance to business outcomes and ends the watermelon effect for good.

Market Impact Report

The claims confidence gap: Insurers hire TPAs on cost but fire on outcomes

P&C insurers hire claims TPAs on cost but fire them on outcomes, and fixing how you buy closes the gap.

Highlight Report

Adopt Databricks’ three Cs thesis, but don’t bet the stack on one vendor

Databricks' Data + AI Summit got the enterprise AI diagnosis right, but its breadth is a reason to govern vendor dependency.

Point of View

Sovereign AI: from imperative to contract

Sovereign AI has moved from policy debate to procurement clause: five stress tests to apply before signing.

Point of View

Financial duress will be the forcing function for purposeful AI in US healthcare

US healthcare's margin crisis is forcing providers toward purposeful AI and bold new revenue streams.

Point of View

Turn recurring GCC work into Services-as-Software™, not service queues

GCCs can turn recurring work into reusable Services-as-Software™ instead of staffing up as demand rises.

Point of View

Reducing friction isn’t fiction in agentic deployment

An HFS and EY analysis of why scaling agentic AI means tackling five interdependent friction areas together.

Highlight Report

FIFA hands Lenovo the keys to reimagine the World Cup

How Lenovo's FIFA World Cup 2026 build gives CIOs a blueprint for running AI in production at scale.

Point of View

Buy outcomes, not solutions: the enterprise case for intent-native services

Why enterprises should buy business outcomes, not solutions, and shift to intent-native services as AI absorbs execution.

Point of View

Enterprises must fix themselves rather than layer AI on broken systems

Why enterprises must fix enterprise debts before scaling AI, from an HFS and Publicis Sapient roundtable.

Point of View

AI is exposing the illusion of control in RCPG effort-based pricing

AI is hollowing out effort-based pricing in RCPG services, pushing leaders toward value-linked and shared-risk models.

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