Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

In-house or outsourced transformation: which is best?

Posted: 02/19/2016 - 20:48
Author: Howard Spode

In this article I examine the question of whether an in-house or outsourced approach is best when transforming business support services such as HR, procurement, customer care, etc. So for example an organisation might ask itself: “Should we establish a robotic process automation (RPA) regime in our accounting operation or should we get a business process outsourcing (BPO) provider to run our accounting for us, which would include the deployment of its RPA regime?”

Building service capability

Posted: 02/17/2016 - 03:40
Author: William Hooper

The concept of “capability” has long been used in strategic analysis to establish defensible leadership. What are the capabilities that are being established by leading service providers and customers? How do you assess the difference between hype and substance?

Artificially limited: liability for machine intelligence

Posted: 02/03/2016 - 22:53
Author: Gareth Stokes

Anyone with even a passing interest in technology will be well used to the claim that a particular IT system – some combination of hardware and software – is “clever technology”. Similarly, synonyms for intelligence have been appended as a prefix or suffix by every IT vendor’s marketing department to add an extra sparkle to their latest technology.

The DIY desire: addressing customer self-service

Posted: 01/14/2016 - 23:08
Author: Keiron Dalton

Sparked by the internet and accelerated by the spread of smart devices, consumers are more and more motivated to gather information online themselves when solving problems with a product or service. This has led to a new situation for customer contact centres – where businesses used to meter information to the public through dedicated agents, now the public at large is holding the cards.

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