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Business Process Services Pricing and Solution Trends: H1 2023
In this report, Avasant provides key information on pricing and solution trends for the Business Process Services industry from the past 12 months. The report covers various aspects, including market demand and provider solution trends, commercial engagement trends, emerging location trends, and pricing and staffing trends in the space. The geographic coverage is global, with a large share of data points from North America. The report builds on insights gathered through our enterprise interactions, ongoing market research, data collection, and the AvaMark™ Price Benchmarking database.
June, 2023
Disaster Recovery Outsourcing Makes Up for Scarcity of Skills
If there were any doubts about the need for disaster recovery planning, these were dispelled over the past few years. A worldwide pandemic, power outages, wars, and cyberattacks exposed organizations that were not fully prepared. But what if the IT organization does not have the resources or the capability to do it all in-house? For this reason, many organizations are turning to disaster recovery providers to fill the gap. This Research Byte analyzes the five-year trend in disaster recovery outsourcing.
June, 2023
Disaster Recovery Outsourcing Trends and Customer Experience 2023
Experiences over the past three years have revealed that many organizations were not adequately prepared for a worldwide pandemic from a business continuity perspective. But most enterprises responded by establishing remote working environments on short notice and built out the network infrastructure and security measures to support them. Now, emerging from pandemic lockdowns, most businesses are retaining these remote work capabilities, even if they are to support a hybrid work model. Businesses are now more resilient, not just in facing another pandemic but in supporting remote work in the event of other natural or man-made disasters.
June, 2023
The Future of Customer Experience: Automation, Analytics, and Agent Enablement
The customer experience landscape is rapidly changing, and businesses must keep pace to exceed customer expectations. With customers becoming more demanding and switching providers when service deteriorates, call centers are evolving into contact centers and ultimately into customer experience (CX) centers, central to driving customer experience (CX). This report—coauthored by Avasant and HCL Technologies—explores how CX centers have evolved into the next frontier of customer experience, and it defines strategies to ensure a positive and seamless customer experience. We conclude with ways in which organizations can reimagine their relationships with CX outsourcing service providers to create the right incentives for themselves and their partners.
July, 2023
IoT Shows Little Growth in Adoption Despite High ROI
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a maturing technology, and for many years it has promised benefits such as reduced labor costs and improved business processes. However, our data is showing a trend that is common with other technologies as they mature. The adoption and investment of IoT projects have remained low. In fact, IoT appears to lag most technologies. This Research Byte examines the potential causes.
June, 2023
Internet of Things Adoption Trends and Customer Experience 2023
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a maturing technology and for many years it has promised benefits such as lower labor costs, better tracking of assets, improved business processes, and efficient energy management. Indeed, IoT seems like a no-brainer technology for companies to invest in. By now, if the hype were to be believed, every product in the home would be “smart” and every machine in the enterprise would be replete with sensors. Instead, IoT lags behind most of the other technologies in our Technology Trends study in terms of new investment.
June, 2023
Communications Staffing Ratio Falls Despite Growing Complexity
Hybrid work is making corporate communications systems more complicated as cloud-based communications solutions and the advancing presence of AI reshape the role of communications support staff members. Nevertheless, IT organizations have been able to manage this growing complexity without adding to communications systems support staffing. This Research Byte provides a summary of our full report on communications support staffing ratios.
June, 2023
Communications System Support Staffing Ratios 2023
Hybrid work is making communications support more complicated, as workers move beyond email and texting to video conferencing and enterprise social media groups. Because of the rise of consumerization, employees and customers are demanding more immersive experiences, even virtual reality. Cloud-based communication and the rise of artificial intelligence are also changing the role of the communications support staff members. All of this is set to put greater demands on corporate communications in 2023.
June, 2023
What Exactly is Digital Engineering and Who is a True Digital Engineering Partner?
Both B2B and B2C products have become smarter and more connected, requiring real-time integration and interaction between hardware and software components. To develop connected products and digitize the engineering and manufacturing life cycle, enterprises need an amalgamation of product and software engineering capabilities through digital engineering. While digital engineering is a growing domain, it is crucial that the ecosystem players, especially engineering and manufacturing companies, get the essence of digital engineering right to realize its true potential.
June, 2023
IT Staffing Ratios: Benchmarking Metrics and Analysis for 16 Key IT Job Functions
The analysis of IT staffing data has been a core competency of Computer Economics since we began publishing our annual IT Spending and Staffing Benchmarks study in 1990. Each year, we survey more than 200 IT organizations across 10 major industry sectors, based on our sampling model, to obtain data on IT staffing levels, server counts, network infrastructure, outsourcing, and spending, among other information pertinent to the assessment of IT staffing.
March, 2024
IT Management Staffing Levels in Long-Term Decline
Generally, the ratio of IT managers to the total IT staff has been decreasing over recent years. In fact, the 2022 percentage stands at the lowest this metric has been in more than a decade. While increasing cloud transformation is a major reason for this drop, there are other factors at work. This Research Byte examines the possible causes.
June, 2023
IT Management and Administration Staffing Ratios 2023
When it comes to IT managers, it is important to find the “sweet spot.” Too many managers and the IT group can become top-heavy and bureaucratic; too few and IT staff members may feel unsupported and without direction. Overworked managers may be pulled in too many directions, and insufficient management resources may push management tasks on to workers who are ill-equipped to take on those roles.
June, 2023