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The Challenges Facing Brokerage

In this RAPIDInsight, HfS Research examines the specific challenges facing brokerage companies and how these firms are leveraging outsourcing service providers

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Living in the Shadow of the Advanced Persistent Threat

Enterprise buyers of business process outsourcing, IT outsourcing, and cloud services have a new security bogeyman to worry about, the so-called Advanced Threat

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Mastering the Digital Media Challenge: How Centro Helped an Ad Agency Unlock Growth

By working with Centro, a mid-size ad agency was able to master digital media operations and offer comprehensive solutions to their clients, gaining >50% and -

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Getting Frank About Dodd-Frank: Happy Birthday Dodd-Frank – A Two-Year Progress Report

On July 21, Dodd-Frank turns two. HfS takes a look at what has been accomplished in the two years and the impacts that Dodd-Frank is having on the financial

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How well do you manage multiple providers?

Multiple provider governance should deliver three things: that your providers are aligned to the business, that flawless service delivery marshals them together

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How Today’s Post-Recession Financial Services firms are approaching Outsourcing

A recent HfS study of 65 major financial services organizations shows they are finally emerging from a dark chapter, thinking about new ways to maximize returns

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Deep Thought: The Death and Rebirth of Outsourcing

In recent months a debate has arisen around the utility of the term “outsourcing”: is that one word sufficient, or appropriate, to describe the plethora of

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Contract Negotiation Strategies for Cloud Services Buyers

HfS Research has assembled important contract negotiation strategies, from how to assess your company’s clout and fit with prospective providers to what you

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A Blueprint for the Industry known as “Outsourcing”

Expert buyers gathered for the HfS Sourcing Blueprint Sessions collectively authored this Blueprint report with insight from recent HfS research, input from 41

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Failure to Launch: Why are So Many Organizations struggling to move Process and Capability to Shared and

Despite the obvious value, many firms limit the scope of shared services, BPO and broader global business services programs. In most cases, two-thirds of work

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Transforming the Insurance Middle and Back Office: Do Buyers and Providers Have the Answers?

Our new research takes a close look at middle and back office challenges faced by carriers today and the steps taken by service providers to address them.

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Managing Security and Risk in Business Process Outsourcing Engagements

This case study identifies the five ways to weave security into BPO provider selection and management, based on our recent conversation with a large enterprise

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Seven Key Uses of Analytics for the Retail Industry

Retailers are using analytics across seven key areas of their value chain - customer behavior, operational efficiencies, loyalty programs, marketing, employee

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Procurement Outsourcing Adoption Survey Report

In partnership with ProcureCon, HfS Research analyzed over 100 procurement leaders' perspectives on procurement outsourcing. This quantitative report presents

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The Significance of Global Business Services Rises as Outsourcing Outcomes, beyond cost reduction, fall

We outline the six major findings from the HfS Research-PwC survey titled “The Future of Global Business Services”, to identify the drivers and results of

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Sole Sourced and Advised Trends for Finance and Accounting BPO engagements 2011-2012

What are the sole sourced and advised trends for Finance and Accounting BPO engagements over the last 12 months? Are buyers engaging advisors more or less than

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Six Essential Learnings from the Six Sourcing Savants

HfS Research's May 17th webcast brought six of the most influential IT and business services savants together for a debate on the future of the sourcing and

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The Future of Global Business Services, Executive Summary

An executive summary of the Feb-Mar 2012 HfS Research-PwC survey, The Future of Global Business Services, identifying the drivers and results of organizational

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European Virtualization Trends in 2012

HfS Research concludes that virtualization technologies are now mainstream, private clouds are the number one investment area for virtualization technologies be

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Addressing the Legal Risks of E-Discovery in the Cloud

HfS Research offers an analysis of the challenges of managing e-discovery in the cloud, and offers some best practices for mitigating the associated legal risk

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