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Taming Disruption: How Carey International Rose Above Uber

Carey International, a global provider of chauffeured services, appeared to face disruption from the likes of ride sharing services such as Uber. This report

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NASSCOM’S $50 Billion Dollar Ambition

HfS attended and presented at the NASSCOM BPM Strategy Summit 2014 held in Bangalore and identified a number of topics that came up throughout the Summit which

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Five Lessons Apple Pay Teaches us about Digital Transformation

Apple’s recently unveiled Pay is set to disrupt the entire retail payment market. Along the way, it provides valuable lessons for anyone looking to corral to

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Show Us the Mold: IBM’s new Talent and Change Organization is a Transformative Step Forward in and

Last month IBM announced a new Global Business Services (GBS) Talent and Change practice. Since HfS watches GBS and the employee experience very closely, we its

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Cognizant Makes the Biggest Indian Bet Yet on Healthcare

Cognizant's $2.7 Billion purchase of healthcare solutions company Trizetto is not only the largest acquisition by an Indian service provider but changes the in

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Executive Report: The State of Services and Outsourcing in 2014

The findings of our survey - the largest annual quantitative research study on services and outsourcing, conducted in June 2014.

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Market Analysis

Strategic Analysis of Outsourcing Deals Announced in August 2014

This paper analyzes the 35 outsourcing deals announced in August 2014.

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The Right Strategy: How an IT Service Provider is Trying to Penetrate its Competitor’s Top ($250M+)

This is a story about how two of the top five India-centric IT service providers penetrated one of their top accounts ($250M+).

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The Future for Outsourcing Governance Solutions

Slides from the September 4, 2014 HfS webinar.

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Top 10 Report

HfS Blueprint Report: SAP Services

This Blueprint assesses the capabilities of providers of SAP Services along the whole SAP Services value chain.

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With 50% Of IT Outsourcing Deals At Risk, How Are IT Outsourcing Providers Perceived?

With up to 50% of ITO buyers in our 2014 State of Outsourcing survey considering churning their current service provider this POV looks at just how 20 of those

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Why Innovation Doesn’t Happen In Outsourcing

This POV discusses the top three reasons why innovation doesn't occur in most outsourcing relationships. Despite best intentions, organizations that fail to not

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Platform Play Features in More than Half of Insurance BPO Contracts

We add new datapoints and perspectives around insurance platform adoption gleaned from analysis of 219 insurance BPO contracts and exhaustive conducted during

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Increased Focus On Innovation Reshapes The 2014 HfS Blueprint Weightings

The results from our 2014 State of Outsourcing survey are reshaping the crowd-sourced weightings. We explain the new weightings and look at how an increased on

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What Talent Acquisition Service Providers Can Learn From The Airline Industry

Lessons can be learned from the airline industry as Talent Acquisition Service leaders travel to compete for global business and inspire and motivate their to

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Top 10 Report

HfS Blueprint Report: Shared Services & Outsourcing (SSO) Governance Solutions

This Blueprint assesses the strengths and capabilities of Shared Services and Outsourcing (SSO) Governance Solutions including both managed governance services

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To Outsource Governance, or Do It Yourself

This POV provides research on the growing interest in the use of Managed Governance Services providers and details a set of criteria that can be used to whether

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SCM BPO Location Attractiveness

In this paper, we looked at the location attractiveness of 22 countries for Supply Chain Management BPO (SCM BPO) both their current share and future

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Market Analysis

The HfS Market Index: EMEA: IT Services and BPO Market Size and Forecast, 2014 – 2018

The EMEA IT Services Market is expected to grow at 3.1% CAGR 2013-18. At the same time, the BPO Market in EMEA is expected to grow at 4.7% CAGR.

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Welcome to the Workforce Retention Crisis

Only a quarter of today’s workers have long-term plans with their current employers, yet employee engagement efforts can stave the exodus. Cross-team is also

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