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  • Blog
    Nov. 16, 2021

    Companies today face a global acute talent shortage for the next three to five years. The pressing issue in this situation is finding or accessing the necessary talent to meet a company’s business needs. We at Everest…
  • Blog
    Nov. 11, 2021

    As I blogged previously, companies now face an acute talent shortage for the foreseeable future.  Two factors causing the demand/supply gap (especially in engineering and IT) include the post-COVID economy rebound and, in the US, the “Great Resignation”…
  • Location Spotlight
    Nov. 02, 2021

    Everest Group’s Location Spotlight reports provide a sharp, insightful assessment of established and emerging or next-wave global services delivery locations by country and city. The reports help global sourcing practitioners and location strategy professionals understand the…
  • Blog
    Nov. 01, 2021

    One of the business lessons that companies learned during the COVID-19 pandemic is that the idea of needing an office for all employees and executives was not completely right. Having invested for operational success in the…
  • Blog
    Oct. 26, 2021

    Businesses relied on Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) clauses in contracts for many years. I first saw it used in 1984. In allowing adjustments when costs went up, COLA clauses served companies well for quite a while in contracts…
  • Blog
    Oct. 18, 2021

    The Agile manifesto, created 20 years ago, radically changed the software development process, introducing new principles and emphasizing breaking tasks down into bite-sized pieces to achieve more innovation and greater productivity. Although some companies improve productivity…
  • Blog
    Oct. 04, 2021

    The engineering services market is now disrupting the IT services marketplace. The move to technology platforms and the requisite number of engineers causes a dilemma for CIOs. The need for engineering skills is growing faster than…
  • Blog
    Sep. 29, 2021

    Cloud as a concept and then as a reality swept through businesses over the past ten years, and most companies moved a lot of their applications to public cloud platforms. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft’s…
  • Blog
    Sep. 20, 2021

    Nearly every company is increasing its investment in technology and attempting to create new competitive advantage by assembling technology into platforms that transform how they serve their customers, service their employees, and coordinate their supply chains.…
  • Blog
    Aug. 25, 2021

    Many companies now experience dramatic improvements in productivity – measured by the effectiveness and efficiency of work. They achieve these improvements because of implementing the new operating models and agile methodologies. However, companies still looking to…
  • Blog
    Aug. 17, 2021

    The business world is changing quickly and affecting decisions as to whether a company brings work back in house that it previously outsourced to third-party service providers, outsources functions that previously were in house, or builds…
  • Blog
    Aug. 10, 2021

    Increasingly this year, we see many companies that aggressively migrated their work from on-premises clouds looking to move work back to on-premises and private clouds. The mindset that the public cloud saves money because a company…
  • Blog
    Aug. 02, 2021

    Prices are rising for goods throughout the US economy because of inflation. Prices are also rising in third-party services, but the increase is more complicated than just an effect of inflation. Let’s look at those complicating…
  • Location Spotlight
    Aug. 02, 2021

    Everest Group’s Location Spotlight reports provide a crisp, insightful assessment of both established and emerging/next-wave global services delivery locations by country and city. The reports help global sourcing practitioners or location strategy professionals stay ahead of…
  • Blog
    July 26, 2021

    When you evaluate potential third-party service providers, you want to assess them across dimensions that allow your company to take action. Which providers should you give more work to? Which ones should be strategic partners? There…
  • Blog
    July 19, 2021

    Digital transformation is accelerating as we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more and more companies starting to achieve tangible and meaningful business results. Companies are also undertaking the grand adventure of implementing new operating…
  • Blog
    July 13, 2021

    In my recent conversations with Fortune 500 CEOs and other senior leaders of large enterprises, some report their workforce is already starting to shift back to the office from the prior work-from-home model in place during…
  • Blog
    July 06, 2021

    Companies now face an acute talent shortage, particularly for digital skills. As I described in my recent blog, this talent shortage means companies must now pay a lot more for new talent and pay more for existing talent…
  • Blog
    June 28, 2021

    Companies that create annual budgets will find their 2021 budget busted because of the rapidly increasing rise in the price of talent – both for internal employees and for talent provided by third-party service providers. Even…
  • Location Spotlight
    June 24, 2021

    Everest Group’s Location Spotlight reports provide a crisp, insightful assessment of both established and emerging/next-wave global services delivery locations by country and city. The reports help global sourcing practitioners or location strategy professionals stay ahead of competition by helping…

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