An Analysis of Trends in EMEA from the 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Global Pulse Survey

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 [...]

Buyers Reasonably Realistic on Cloud Computing’s Potential

Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory Cloud computing was one of the focus areas in KPMG’s 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse survey.   While the potential benefits of cloud computing have been loudly touted by both pundits and providers there has been less focus on the practical enthusiasm of the average buyer organization [...]

Driving Innovation through Collaboration

Lee Ayling, Partner, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK Karene House, Principal Advisor, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK How are you driving innovation with your outsourcing providers and, if you’re a supplier of outsourced services, how are you delivering innovation for your clients? What’s working and what’s not? How do you measure its impact [...]

Cloud Computing: Concepts Clear but Capabilities Questionable

Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory In the KPMG 2Q11 Sourcing Advisory Global Pulse survey, we polled the firms’ sourcing advisors as well as leading third-party business and IT service providers to assess the skills of typical end-user organizations around various cloud computing capabilities such as understanding the  technical underpinnings of [...]

The Nordic Region: Quality Improvement and Access to Skills Becoming More Important Drivers of Outsourcing

Carl-Henrik Hallström, Head of Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in Sweden Our 2011 Nordics IT Service Provider Performance and Satisfaction Study is the most extensive to date, both in terms of the level of participation and the insights gained. This year, more than 300 different organisations participated and evaluated over 700 unique IT outsourcing contracts. The value [...]

A New Normal for Shared Services and Outsourcing

Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Sourcing Advisory Research, KPMG in the US In terms of macro trends, a hot term in the market today is ‘new normal’. New normal in terms of the economic conditions and new normal in terms of debt, unfortunately. But also what we see is a new normal in terms of how [...]

Intellectual Property and Data Privacy in China: Done Deal or Adopter’s Delusion?

Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory KPMG’s Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory (SSOA) practice’s global leadership team recently completed a tour of Asia Pacific during which it examined sourcing trends into and out of that market.  This is the second in a series of blogs that will share these findings [...]

Sourcing in China for China’s Sake

Stan Lepeak, Director of Global Research, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory KPMG’s Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory (SSOA) practice’s global leadership team recently completed a tour of Asia Pacific during which it examined sourcing trends into and out of that market.  This is the first in series of blogs that will share these findings and [...]

Trends in Service Delivery Optimization: The Big Picture from KPMG’s Second Quarter 2011 Global Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey

Cliff Justice, Service Network Leader, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory, KPMG in the US If we stand back and look at our firms’ clients, and look at what they are planning in terms of business services, the market in general has clearly matured. Clients have become more sophisticated in how they design and deploy their [...]

2Q2011 KPMG Global Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey – A Little Cloud Gazing

Bill Thomas, Partner, Sourcing Advisory, KPMG in the UK The second quarter 2011 KPMG Global Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey findings have now been announced and, again, offer a valuable insight into trends in end-user organisations’ usage of shared services, outsourcing and third-party business and IT services. Findings are from KPMG firms’ advisors and leading global [...]