Taking a Pulse on the Global Business Services Market: Results from the Front Lines

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG LLP (KPMG) recently released the results of its global 1Q13 Sourcing Advisory Pulse surveys. These Pulse surveys provide insights into trends and projections in end-user organizations’ usage of global business services (GBS).  Two prior blogs (click here for the first and second in series) reviewed various [...]

This Just in (Again!): Organizations’ GBS Ambitions (Still) Outpace Their Capabilities to Manage Efforts

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG International recently released the results of its global 1Q13 Sourcing Advisory Pulse surveys. These Pulse surveys provide insights into trends and projections in end-user organizations’ usage of global business services (GBS). A prior blog reviews the highlights of this quarter’s Pulse. Organizations are continuing to expand [...]

Taking a Pulse on the Global Business Services Market – (Nearly) as Global as Ever

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the results of its global 1Q13 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 International member firms’ (KPMG firms’) advisors, who are working closely [...]

Taking a Pulse on the Global Business Services Market: Results from the Front Lines

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the results of its global 4Q12 Sourcing Advisory Pulse (Pulse) surveys. These Pulse surveys provide insights into trends and projections in end-user organizations’ usage of global business services (GBS). A prior blog reviews the highlights of this quarter’s Pulse. Below are the results from [...]

Taking a Pulse on the Global Business Services Market: (More Specialized) Outsourcing Demand Rebounds

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the results of its global 4Q12 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 KPMGI member firms’ advisors, who are working closely with end-user organizations [...]

New Year’s Resolutions Worth Keeping

By Cliff Justice, Principal, KPMG LLP If you’re like most of us, the new gym membership is getting boring and throwing in the towel is starting to sound better by the day. The kids are back at school, and there’s no time like the present to commit to a more strategic, fulfilling 2013. These 9 [...]

Taking a Pulse on the Global Business Services Market: Webcast Highlights

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the results of its global 3Q12 Sourcing Advisory Pulse surveys. These Pulse surveys provide insights into trends and projections in end-user organizations’ usage of global business services (GBS). Below are highlights excerpted from the webcast held on October 25.  It was attended by me, [...]

Taking a Pulse on the Global Business Services Market: Results from the Front Lines

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the results of its global 3Q12 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 [...]

Taking a Pulse on the Global Business Services Market: Seeking Success via (More) Shared Services

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG LLP recently released the results of its global third quarter 2012 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 member firms’ advisors, who are working closely [...]

Outsourcing Contract Complexity

Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory Marc Stark, Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG released the results of the 2012 edition of the global Legal Pulse survey earlier this year. This was the third annual edition of the Legal Pulse, one in the family of recurring Pulse research studies. These Pulse surveys provide insights [...]