Global Business Services Insights

2024 GBS Agenda: Key Issues to Address and Critical Actions to Succeed
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In 2024, global business services (GBS) leaders must remain laser-focused on delivering measurable performance improvements and adding value to the enterprise amid continued disruption.…
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Pioneering Gen AI
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The Hackett Group’s AI XPLR™: A Pioneering Generative AI Readiness and Opportunity Assessment

The Hackett Group’s AI XPLR™ is a readiness and opportunity assessment enabling companies to quickly and comprehensively identify opportunities to…
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Unlocking the Secrets to GBS Success: Insights from the Top Performers
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Unlocking the Secrets to GBS Success: Insights from the Top Performers

Enterprise expectations of global business services (GBS) are expanding significantly beyond scaling services across functions to achieve a cost advantage.…
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Bridging the Outsourcing Value Gap
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Bridging the Outsourcing Value Gap

Are you maximizing the value from your current outsourcing arrangements? Business process outsourcing (BPO) can deliver significant cost reductions, while…
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Higher Training Investment Contributes to 49% Lower Recruitment and Staffing Process Costs
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Higher Training Investment Contributes to 49% Lower Recruitment and Staffing Process Costs

Digital World Class® organizations are both more efficient and more effective in developing people and skills. They achieve 49% lower…
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Global Business Services: Picking the Right Key Performance Indicators for Your Organization
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Global Business Services: Picking the Right Key Performance Indicators for Your Organization

Deciding which metrics to measure is key to assess your global business services (GBS) organization’s performance effectively. With your C-suite,…
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Change Management: What Does It Mean to You?

During my career, I’ve heard varying definitions of change management ranging from the tactical to the esoteric. Perhaps more important…
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BPO Contracts: Your Rate Card May Be Great – But Are You Still Paying for Too Much?

If you’ve been part of a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Managed Services contract negotiation, you understand that it is distinctly…
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Key Focus for GBS in 2020? Doing More With Less

According to The Hackett Group’s 2020 Key Issues Study, the challenges of operating global business services (GBS) organizations aren’t letting…
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Global Business Services: Equipping a Multigenerational Workforce With the Skills for Success in a Digital Environment
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Global Business Services: Equipping a Multigenerational Workforce With the Skills for Success in a Digital Environment

According to a World Economic Forum report, the proportion of core skills required to perform a job will shift significantly…
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Quantifying the Finance Digital Opportunity

We’re finance people. And finance people like numbers. For many, a current pressing question is how to measure the dollars…
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GBS: Executives Lose Sleep Over Talent Deficits

It was a packed room at the last breakout session on the future of the workforce at The Hackett Group’s…
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Finance Processes: To Standardize or Not to Standardize?

Even a couple of years ago, this would be a no-brainer. The accepted wisdom was that finance should become more…
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The Next-Generation Global Business Services Talent Profile
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The Next-Generation Global Business Services Talent Profile

Dramatic changes in the nature of work as a result of rapid maturing and adoption of “smart automation” technologies are…
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World-Class Global Business Services: Ten Capabilities Driving Better Performance
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World-Class Global Business Services: Ten Capabilities Driving Better Performance

As global business services (GBS) organizations mature and the nature of value creation evolves, so do the characteristics of world-class…
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Achieving Finance Process Excellence Through Smart Automation

The two top objectives for finance in 2019 are reducing operating cost and supporting the enterprise’s digital transformation, according to…
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What GBS Leaders Should be Watching Out for as Brexit Approaches

The UK is scheduled to leave the European Union at 11 p.m. UK time on Friday, March 29, 2019. However,…
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