Opinion Archives - Page 3 of 11 - Intelligent Sourcing

Lessons for BPO’S from ‘The Last Blockbuster’.

Nothing remains static. In life as well as business, the cliché holds. No matter the sector, the ability of an enterprise to pivot...

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South Africa awarded Top 2021 most favored Global Offshore CX Delivery Location

The 8th April saw Ryan Strategic Advisory along with the CX Outsoucers team and a great line-up of global thought leaders announcing...

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Confusion Reigns: Understanding CX ecoSystem complexity

In my last article I explored the complex evolution of managing customer service and the broader customer experience (CX). From the halcyon days...

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AI ethics is being treated as a passing fad

Is the serious matter of AI ethics being treated as nothing more than ‘flavour of the month’ by our businesses and media outlets?...

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Providing CX solutions isn’t outsourcing, it’s orchestrating

A long time ago there was an outsourcing blog called ‘Horses for Sources’ managed by Phil Fersht. Eventually Phil used the momentum behind...

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Contracting in the New Economy: Using Relational Contracts to Boost Trust and Collaboration in Strategic Business Relationships

By David Frydlinger, Kate Vitasek, Jim Bergman, and Tim Cummins Contracting in the New Economy is a book about the why, what,...

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The Path to Collaborative Bidding

As companies move up the sourcing continuum, they likely will find that the typical transaction-based bidding methods are lacking, especially for complex,...

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Is it time to turn the lights out on GBS?

For too long, Global Business Services (GBS) has been the backdoor pantry where the general admin operations of large organisations are relentlessly churned out...