Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
There’s no end in sight for the jobless recovery in business functions such as corporate finance and IT, in large part due to the accelerated movement of work to India and other offshore locations, according to new research from The Hackett Group. The dramatic job losses seen by U.S. and European companies in 2008 and…
Editor’s Note: This clients-only report was first produced in January 2010 and is being reprinted here with permission from The Hackett Group. As companies slowly emerge from the recession, they are encountering fundamental changes in the global business environment. These changes will have far-reaching implications for the way IT services are provided and funded and…
While world-class procurement organizations continue to outperform their peers in driving supplier diversity spending according to a new study by The Hackett Group. The study identified several critical ways that most companies fail in their supplier diversity programs. Hackett’s latest research found that companies with world-class procurement organizations commit 33% more of their spend to…
In order to stay competitive, companies in Europe and US will continue to shed IT and other back office jobs, according to a new study of 4,000 billion-dollar firms by the Hackett Group. Over the next five years, corporate IT will shift an additional 583,000 jobs to lower-cost nations. This is on top of IT…