HFS on Sourcing & Procurement

A collection of the latest views from the HFS analyst team on sourcing & procurement.

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Point of View

Rewiring retail and CPG: 2025 CIO agenda for resilience, relevance, and reinvention

RCG faces price-sensitive yet principle-driven buyers—CIOs need bold, multifaceted agendas to stay ahead.

Data Viewpoint

Strategic collaboration driving accelerated innovation across the ER&D value chain

Service providers are enabling clients navigate complexity, unlock growth, and deliver differentiated products.

Highlight Report

Capgemini’s wind visualization technology sets a new benchmark for sports broadcasting

Empowering leaders to enhance fan engagements, strengthen connections, and create highly personalized, immersive experiences.

Point of View

The nearshore advantage in the age of technology arbitrage

Nearshoring brings advantages to IT services by offering experienced talent in local time zones to drive business outcomes.

Data Viewpoint

THL leaders seek strategic enablers for a customer-centric, resilient, and sustainable future

Top priorities for THL firms include new business models, ESP and data.

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”

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Highlight Report

Navixus helps clients navigate the reimagined path of customer experience

Tech Mahindra’s advisory arm aims to transform CX and managed services

Point of View

CX leaders find they are in the same GenAI boat—and it’s not moving nearly fast enough

The customer experience function is not reaping the benefits of GenAI.

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