Sourcing Change forms Strategic Research Partnership with HfS Research
-Committed to Helping Enterprises Make Complex Global Outsourcing Decisions, HfS Research has partnered with Sourcing Change, the only resource devoted to outsourcing and shared services change management.
- (1888PressRelease) November 04, 2010 - HfS Research, the foremost advisory analyst advisory firm and networking community focused on helping enterprises make complex decisions with their business process and IT outsourcing strategies, has announced a strategic research partnership with new sourcing change management strategic advisor, Sourcing Change (www.sourcingchange.com).
With 37,000 subscribers to its research website and blog, HfS Research provides the most influential and frequently visited collaborative community and media platform in the global services industry, providing rapid and insightful commentary, analysis and debate of enterprise outsourcing dynamics.
As part of this research alliance, Sourcing Change's Managing Principal and renowned sourcing industry veteran, Deborah Kops, will contribute leading-edge research and insight to HfS Research's clients and website subscribers, tackling the demanding and complex issues of change management when an organization undergoes a global outsourcing or shared services transformation.
"Our clients are in desperate need of advice and knowledge from peer experiences when they undergo the difficult operational change that accompanies a global sourcing endeavor," said HfS Research Founder and CEO, Phil Fersht. "Sourcing Change, under Deborah's leadership, delivers experienced, meaningful advice to fill the knowledge gap in the market. Having worked with Deborah for many years, there is no one more qualified to deliver this insight. We look forward to expanding industry understanding through our collaboration with her."
Sourcing Change's insights into the change challenges of sourcing models combined with HfS' research acumen will produce immediately consumable and actionable intelligence to help the industry advance. Together, the collaboration will uncover how buyers of sourcing services actually manage change, and identify trends and lessons learned to help the industry implement better change.
In addition, Sourcing Change and HfS are planning a groundbreaking survey on the state of change management, which will be rolled out by the end of the year. To get an even deeper handle on the dynamics, the Sourcing Change/HfS Research collaboration will publish RAPIDInsight research over the course of the year, drilling down into change management by maturity and industry.
About HfS Research
HfS Research is the foremost advisory analyst firm and networking community, focused on helping enterprises make complex decisions with their business process and IT outsourcing strategies. HfS is an acronym for "Horses for Sources", the globally acclaimed blog for the global sourcing industry, based on the English phrase "Horses for Courses" which implies race horses will run better on certain race courses, not dissimilar to outsourcing and enterprises today.
With 37,000 subscribers to its research website and blog, HfS provides the most impactful and frequently-visited global collaborative community platform in the global services industry, providing rapid and insightful commentary, analysis and debate of enterprise outsourcing dynamics. The organization is unique in the fact that it integrates personable social networking with market research and advisory services.
HfS' mission is to provide a unique environment for collective research, opinion, experience and knowledge across the global outsourcing industry to help enterprises explore new performance thresholds. Led by industry expert Phil Fersht, the HfS team is a multi-disciplinary group of analysts across North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific regions, with deep domain knowledge in Business Process Outsourcing, Information Technology Services and Cloud Business Services.
Launched in 2007, the HfS blog has more than 120,000 monthly visitors across the global outsourcing industry, and is widely recognized as the leading destination for collective insight, research and open debate of industry issues and developments. The HfS LinkedIn community is thriving with over 10,800 industry professionals sharing views and information daily. More information about HfS Research can be accessed at www.hfsresearch.com. The company can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/horses4sources and LinkedIn by joining "The BPO and Offshoring Best Practices Forum group."
About Sourcing Change
Sourcing Change is the first resource specifically designed to support change management for outsourcing and shared services. Sharing insights, tools and solutions, Sourcing Change is designed as a community for all stakeholders grappling with such issues such as change readiness and planning, capabilities requirements, change messaging, and dealing with opposition sourcing. Look through our resources to foster better change. Visit our website at www.sourcingchange.com.
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