Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research Vicki Phelan, Director, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory supporting the Pharma and Life Sciences Industry KPMG Management Consulting recently completed a market study assessing how North American-based medical device firms are approaching efforts to improve to global business services (GBS). Other KPMG research conducted across multiple industries typically [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Management Consulting Research on the subject of emerging trends in cloud computing usage for KPMG’s global cloud Pulse survey looked at what is driving the adoption of cloud computing by end-user organizations. A primary driver typically cited in the market today is reducing IT costs and this was supported by [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research Over 400 of KPMG’s consultants across our global network of member firms have provided their insights from the ‘front lines’ of cloud computing usage for the inaugural KPMG global cloud Pulse survey. On the subject of cloud adoption levels globally, it was interesting to see that just seven [...]

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Steve Salmon, Global Cloud Centre of Excellence Lead, KPMG in the UK Karl Flinders of Computer Weekly makes an interesting observation on his blog on the subject of the adoption of cloud services when he writes, “A year ago everybody was talking about the cloud. But there was not much context to what they were [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG recently released a comprehensive global market study on cloud computing adoption and usage.  On November 15th, I will be leading a webcast discussion related to the study.  An initial analysis of the results identifies some interesting findings.  One of them is the disparity of cloud services adoption [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG will release the first edition of its global cloud Pulse survey via a webcast on November 15th.  The cloud Pulse survey is modeled after the sourcing advisory Pulse family of research studies.  Results are based on surveys and interviews with advisors globally in KPMG member firms’ Management [...]

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KPMG polled REFM outsourcing buyers and service providers on changes to demand and preferences for a range of outsourcing delivery and management model options.

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Stan Lepeak, Director Global Sourcing Advisory Research Doug Burr, Senior Manager, Advisory KPMG LLP (US) and KPMG Holdings Limited (UK) recently released the results of its inaugural Real Estate and Facilities Management (REFM) Pulse survey.   This survey is the newest addition to the Pulse family of research studies.  Similar to the other KPMG Pulse surveys, [...]

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Dave Brown, Principal, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory, KPMG LLP ( US) Information technology outsourcing (ITO) continues to push the capabilities of service delivery to buyers using more efficient and seamless interfaces. Cloud computing services begin to take the next step by attempting to hide the entire infrastructure and allowing you to simply pay for [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research KPMG is pleased to release the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region (RC) market findings from its 2Q11 Global Sourcing Advisory Pulse survey. These findings represent an extract from the Global 2Q11 KPMG Pulse survey, and are based on the views of our firms’ advisors that primarily [...]

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