HFS on Customer and Employee Experience

A collection of the latest views from the HFS analyst team on customer and employee experience.

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Market Vision Paper

Lean into disruption to shape the generative customer experience

Firstsource is helping clients embrace the agentic AI opportunity.

Point of View

Don’t let your customer data get away; make customer data platforms the new backbone of CX insights

GenAI plus customer data platforms highlight the potential power of “and”

Market Impact Report

No more trickle-down digital! How to help mid-tier financial services firms grow in a post-SVB world

HFS Research, in partnership with Cognizant, surveyed 151 US mid-tier FS firms to understand their unique needs in a post-SVB world.

Point of View

GenAI is reshaping sports industry advertising—adapt or get left behind

GenAI transformation isn’t only enhancing marketing—it’s redefining it.

Point of View

Why sports technologies are poised to grow exponentially

As technology investments drive more fan engagement and, subsequently, more revenue, all major sports franchises will follow suit.

Point of View

Formal DEI programs may be dead—but diversity is more important than ever

As formal DEI programs fade, embedding inclusive practices into core business operations becomes crucial for sustainable growth.

Point of View

Procurement leaders must tackle operational hurdles to find new sources of value

Procurement faces operational issues, data challenges, and talent gaps, however, leaders can add value with ecosystem partners.

Point of View

Stop pretending leadership failures can be fixed with an office

A leader’s success or failure hinges on relationships, and employees are deeply aware of this.

Highlight Report

With Agentforce, Salesforce brings new opportunities for clients and partners

At its annual Dreamforce event in California, Salesforce officially unveiled Agentforce, an allin-one agentics and Gen AI solution.

Highlight Report

Unleash the power of happy humans in your AI enterprise—learn from Cognizant’s balancing act

AI adoption risks employee discontent. Cognizant balances efficiency and experience using design, AI, and data.

Highlight Report

TCS builds Business-in-a-Box to support Xerox’s ‘Reinvention’

Xerox is overcoming dramatic business model changes with the help of the TCS business-in-a-box model.

Point of View

Retail’s make-or-break moment: Embark on the HFS ‘Future of Retail’ framework now

The ‘Future of Retail’ framework professes a customer-oriented paradigm enabled by tech.

Data Viewpoint

Modernize core banking to differentiate and future-proof beyond cost-cutting or UI polish

Banks must select their approach carefully to ensure continuously evolving systems.

Point of View

Energy and utilities leaders must adapt to convergence or risk obsolescence

E&U leaders must adapt to sector convergence, integrating renewables, smart grids, and IoT, or face obsolescence.

Point of View

Invest in your people—or pay more than you need to for AI

Train your way out of AI skills debt or prepare for a war for talent only those with the deepest pockets can hope to win.

Highlight Report

Unit4 aims to improve the ERP experience with a new customer success model

Unit4 provides an example other vendors can follow to make it easier for customers to get more from their ERP software sooner.

Point of View

DEI is at a crossroads—facing death or revitalization

DEI is at a crossroads—organizations must either revitalize their efforts or risk abandoning these essential values entirely.

Highlight Report

Key Takeaways from the HFS Spring Summit—The Great Enterprise Disruption

HFS Research took New York by storm in May 2024 with our latest and greatest Horizons Summit event.

Market Analysis

Resources, Energy and Utilities outlook for 2024

Summary of the Resources, Energy and Utilities HFS pulse data for 2024.

Competitive Intelligence

EXL: Customer Experience Services Capabilities, 2024

A look at how EXL performed in the HFS Horizons: Customer Experience Service Providers, 2024

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