Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory Rick Wright, Global & US Cloud Enablement Program Leader, KPMG LLP KPMG recently released the 2013 edition of its annual cloud market research study. The first in a series of blogs examining key findings from this market study highlighted some of the hidden or at least unexpected [...]
Mike Gough, Manager, KPMG LLP and Jeff Gregoire, Director, KPMG LLP Say the words “cost allocations,” and your audience immediately thinks “expensive,” “formulaic,” “not based in reality,” and maybe worse. Cost allocations are nothing new, but managing them correctly is. It’s the difference between providing a required service versus providing a value-based service with obvious [...]
Steve Salmon, Principal, KPMG in the UK Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the 2013 edition of its annual cloud market research study. Among the many findings, several that stood out highlighted that adopting and exploiting the potential of cloud is often not as quick, cheap, or easy as market [...]
By Ron Walker, Principal, KPMG Management Consulting Buyers, providers, advisors, analysts, and market watchers alike know that finance and accounting (F&A) has never been the frontrunner outsourced business process function. Yet, the “2013 State of Outsourcing” study, conducted by HfS Research with support from KPMG, shows that F&A is picking up outsourcing steam. Indeed, the [...]
Rick Wright, Principal, CIO Advisory and Global Cloud Enablement Program Leader According to a 2012 survey conducted by IDG Research Services for KPMG LLP, the cloud was second only to mobility among business trends where CIOs expected significant benefits. Of course, the cloud is top of mind for most CIOs today. What’s interesting, however, is [...]
Keith Mattioli, Principal, CIO Advisory The CIO has the most dynamic role in an organization. What started off as keeping the mainframe running has turned into an integrated, business strategy role directly impacting revenue and the overall success of the business. Keeping the lights on is certainly still important, but that role offers no value [...]
You may think you own the global process, but if your global business services are dependent upon a disconnected or uninterested IT group, breakdowns aren’t far ahead. A longstanding fractious relationship tends to exist between process owners and technology owners. Not to beat up exclusively on the IT folks, but with so much riding on [...]
Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory Any organization attempting to intelligently captivate clients and prospects via research, points of view, thought leadership or other forms of fact-based propaganda face a mounting array of challenges. Chief among them are information overload among their targeted executives and, as a byproduct of this, increasingly short attention [...]
Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the results of its global 1Q12 Sourcing Advisory Pulse surveys. These Pulse surveys provide insights into trends and projections in end-user organizations’ usage of global business services (GBS). The learnings are gleaned from KPMG firms’ advisors, who are working closely with end-user organizations that [...]
KPMG survey data has identified perceived top capabilities organizations will need to successfully undertake top 2012 initiatives and overcome the challenges they are encountering: dysfunctional and/or fragmented organizational operating models, designs, and processes; inadequate and/or antiquated information technology (IT) infrastructure and systems; and the lack of adequate and skilled talent, and the inability to attract and retain talent.