The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity

Mark Hodges, Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Corporate Development
A book I have recently contributed to, and would strongly recommend to every manager who faces global competition, is ‘The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity’ by Professor Robert Kennedy. And here’s why it’s worth a read….
The book, clearly shaped by practitioners and [...]

FAO 2010: Responding to the Corporate Agenda

Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, EquaTerra Global Research
EquaTerra recently completed a new market study on finance and accounting (F&A) and F&A outsourcing (FAO) market trends. Through this research EquaTerra identifies and assesses challenges and opportunities facing F&A organizations in 2010 and analyzes and weights options F&A groups can employ to respond to these challenges and exploit [...]

‘Generation 3′ HR Outsourcing Deals Have Arrived

Bill Thomas, Executive Director, Europe & Asia Pacific
The start of a new year is always a great time for reflection, and this year it particularly strikes me just how big an evolution the HRO market has been through.
We’re now seeing a wave of ‘generation 3′ HR Outsourcing (HRO) deals hitting the market place.  ‘Generation 1′ deals [...]

Cloud Computing: From Blue Sky Thinking to a Real Solution

Charles Arnold, Managing Director, EquaTerra IT practice (North America)
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, EquaTerra Research (Global)
One of the biggest buzzwords in IT today is Cloud Computing.  Nearly every IT infrastructure team is at least discussing it, if not actually planning for what it will mean to them.  Not surprisingly, it has made its way into IT [...]

Europe IT Trends 2010: A measured (and often more successful) approach to change

Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, EquaTerra Global Research
with Nico Boot, Executive Director, EquaTerra Europe
I recently spoke with Nico Boot, IT and ITO industry veteran and executive director of EquaTerra Europe, on what he sees as the top trends in the European business and IT services market in 2010.  One key trend he focused on is how [...]

Social Media as a Business Medium: It’s already here, are you ready?

Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research
Collaboration is a core skill in any successful business.   The means, however,  through which businesses collaborate internally as well as externally with customers and partners have changed dramatically over the past 20 years and  will continue to do so at a torrid pace.  Today the collaboration envelope is being pushed [...]