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Best Practices in Adopting a Shared Services Model
In their endeavors to become high performing organizations, businesses are pushing all innovation frontiers to do more with less and achieve excellence even in these times of curtailed budgets. Shared services is one such definitive innovative model that many organizations have adopted to beat the ever growing challenges of seamless service delivery, consolidation of distributed accountabilities, progressive efficiency improvements, and fiscal pressures.
August, 2013
China Diversification Strategies and Options for Relocation
China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions have created political and business instability with its global trading partners. As a result, many western companies with manufacturing operations in China or significant sourcing from China are pursuing a diversification strategy. This report summarizes the factors that are driving western nations to diversify their operations out of China as well as options for new locations.
January, 2023
What’s Keeping Chief Procurement Officers Awake at Night?
The risk of supply chain disruptions is in addition to the objective of the chief procurement officer (CPO) to deliver value, improve cash flow, develop functional capabilities, manage the risk in an ever-evolving supply base, and reduce the carbon footprint of the supply chain.
January, 2023
F&A Business Process Transformation 2022–2023 RadarView™
The F&A Business Process Transformation 2022–2023 RadarView™ aims to help enterprises identify the correct finance digital transformation partner by detailing service capability and offering a portfolio of leading providers in the F&A space. It provides an all-encompassing view of major F&A service providers under three broad parameters: practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovation. The 79-page report also highlights top industry trends in the F&A outsourcing space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
January, 2023
Service Provider ESG Maturity Index 2022–2023: Drive Sustainable Sourcing by Engaging with Progressive Partners
Avasant’s Service Provider ESG Maturity Index 2022–2023 benchmarks service providers based on their ESG disclosures. Enterprises are looking more closely at the goals and impact of their providers and partners. The report aims to help enterprises make better procurement decisions in order to meet their own ESG goals. The inaugural edition features 17 service providers and classifies them based on our ESG performance benchmarking index that factors more than 50 data points across four parameters: environmental, social, governance, and ESG disclosure compliance and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) coverage.
November, 2022
Procurement Business Process Transformation 2022 RadarView™
The Procurement Business Process Transformation 2022 RadarView™ assists enterprises in identifying strategic partners for their procurement business process transformation by featuring detailed capability and experience analyses of leading service providers. It provides a 360-degree view of key procurement service providers across practice maturity, domain ecosystem, and investments and innovations, thus helping enterprises in evaluating leading players in the procurement business process transformation space. The 58-page report also highlights top market trends in the procurement business process transformation space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
September, 2022
Freight and Logistics Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™
The Freight and Logistics Digital Services 2022–2023 RadarView™ can help enterprises craft a robust strategy based on industry outlook, best practices, and digital transformation. The report can also aid companies in identifying the right partners and service providers to accelerate their digital transformation. The 70-page report also identifies key service providers and system integrators that can help businesses in their digital transformation journeys.
September, 2022
Integrating ESG with IT Strategy
Increasing concerns about the effects of climate change and socio-economic disparities have made environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance a front-burner issue for organizations around the globe. This white paper explains why a multifaceted approach to integrating ESG initiatives within an IT strategy will facilitate balanced growth, mitigate risk, and help achieve sustainability goals.
August, 2022
IT Vendor Governance Best Practices
IT vendor management is a function and set of practices that guide the selection, management, and assessment of IT suppliers to ensure that all parties comply with the terms of their contracts. IT supplier management has been a best practice for many years, but the disciplines have evolved. Traditional IT vendor governance practices are now inadequate to navigate the changing business ecosystem. The upshot is that most organizations need to transform their vendor governance programs. This Research Byte summarizes our full report on IT Vendor Governance Best Practices.
August, 2022
Growth of Internet of Things Ties to Sustainability
Global instability brought on by supply chain disruptions, global pandemics, and international conflict have been a catalyst for enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) adoption, with a 24% year-over-year (YOY) increase in number of IoT projects. Integration of IoT and 5G accelerated use cases including smart cities, smart buildings, intelligent workplaces, and other sustainability projects. However, despite the growth in adoption, security gaps in IoT environments have left many organizations vulnerable to new cybersecurity threats. These trends, and others, are covered in our Internet of Things Services 2022 RadarView™.
April, 2022
The New Technology Imperative: ESG Takes Center Stage
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) represents three critical aspects for analyzing a business’s performance in terms of its environmental sustainability and societal impact. Avasant has put forward its point of view (POV) on why it is imperative for enterprises to incorporate sustainability in their business operations and how technological implementations will empower them. Avasant’s ESG calendar covers ongoing trends in the ESG space and investigates ESG solutions and offerings afforded by service and technology providers. Our POV also offers a benchmarking index to evaluate the performance of service providers in meeting their ESG goals.
February, 2022
SD-WAN a Pillar for Business and Digital Transformation
The network serves as the backbone for the success of any digital transformation strategy. Incorporating SD-WAN as part of an organization’s digital strategy will improve the agility and flexibility of the network. But despite these benefits, adoption and investment levels for SD-WAN are low. On the other hand, early adopters are experiencing high ROI and TCO success rates. This Research Byte summarizes our full report, SD-WAN Adoption Trends and Customer Experience.
February, 2022
HR Outsourcing Service Providers Rising to Meet New Demands for Digital Transformation
The HR function is evolving to meet the challenges of the labor market, which is increasingly being disrupted by labor shortages, pressure on wages, and the changing expectation of employees working from home. To address these challenges, enterprises are increasingly relying on service providers for flexible HR operations and digital transformation. This has led to a seven percent growth in HR outsourcing adoption between June 2020 and June 2021. Additionally, platform adoption continues to be at the core of HR transformation as enterprises extend their HCM systems or implement new ones. These trends, and others, are covered in our new Global Hire-to-Retire Business Process Transformation 2021-22 RadarView™.
December, 2021
Blockchain Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Blockchain Services 2021– 2022 RadarView™ provides information to assist enterprises in identifying key application areas and use cases and developing a strategy around blockchain adoption. It helps organizations in charting out an action plan to drive blockchain initiatives. The report identifies key blockchain service providers who can help companies expedite business transformation leveraging blockchain. It brings out detailed capability and experience analyses of leading providers to assist enterprises in identifying the right strategic partners. The 73-page report also highlights key industry trends in the blockchain space and Avasant’s viewpoint on them.
December, 2021
Workday HCM Services 2021–2022 RadarView™
The Workday HCM Services 2021–2022 RadarView™ helps enterprises define their approach for Workday HCM adoption and identify the right implementation partner to support them in their journey. It assesses Workday service providers based on their ability to offer implementation and managed services with limited disruption. The 58-page report also provides our point of view on how Workday service providers are catering to the changing needs of enterprises through a wide portfolio of accelerators and preconfigured solutions, thus delivering a general ranking based on key dimensions of practice maturity, partner ecosystem, and investment and innovation.
December, 2021