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.

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Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG Management Consulting KPMG recently conducted an internal global poll of its firms’ professionals to assess what they view as the top market trends that would impact their clients in 2012. This poll canvassed professionals from the firms’ Management Consulting, Risk Consulting, Audit, and Tax service groups.  KPMG released these [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, KPMG Management Consulting KPMG recently released the results of its global 4Q11 Sourcing Advisory Pulse Survey. The 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’ advisers, who are working closely with enterprises that are [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, Global Research, KPMG 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 [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, KPMG 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 [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, KPMG 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 [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Director, KPMG 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’ [...]

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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 Research, KPMG 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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