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In a world where sales for IT services have been decelerating, we believe there is a $400 billion unaddressed market for IT services. A huge, attractive prize for service providers. But it requires a different business model. This blog post describes the situation. The Market is Shadow IT The unaddressed market is enterprise shadow

In a video discussion, General Electric’s CEO Jeff Immelt discussed digital transformation and stated that companies must “either embrace the future or you’ll find yourself not able to satisfy your customers.” Third-party IT and business service providers also face a changing market and are taking steps to align themselves with the new business realities

Cognizant is now in a position where it must make important choices, and by extension, most service providers are likely to face the same situation soon. Elliott Management, an activist investor, took a position in Cognizant. When Elliott compared Cognizant’s performance to other benchmark companies in the services industry, it determined that Cognizant is

I’ve blogged several times in the past three years about the benefits of switching to a consumption-based pricing model for services, especially the benefit it delivers in shaving off operational costs. In this model, companies pay only for what they use instead of paying for over-capacity. We see customers’ desire for consumption-based pricing coming

As we at Everest Group study the service industry, we find that a number of service providers have been successful in growing their relationships with some large clients into very substantial annual expenditures often exceeding $100 million a year. These accounts have become the backbone of the leading service providers’ business and have accounted

I’ve blogged before about the trap for service providers that listen to their salespeople and where that purchasing-oriented perspective takes a provider – to undifferentiated offerings, lower pricing, lower margins, standard offerings and low value. But there is a significant part of the market that is dictated by procurement/purchasing departments and, as a provider,

As we work with service providers developing new offers, we see a very common issue. A provider develops an innovative offering for one of its customers. Often that customer will have led the provider into it and then they evolve it over time. An executive shows up from the provider company and says, “Wow,

So often, clients tell their providers, “If you help us save money, we will spend that money on your services in other areas.” But what often happens when the service provider saves the money is that no funding for new initiatives is forthcoming. Instead, they are asked to do more initiatives to achieve more

With apologies to George Orwell and his novel “Animal Farm,” I think Napoleon the Pig’s famous quote (“All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others”) has important applicability and insight for the services industry. The industry is changing very quickly. Customers are open and eager for transformation and to

Management consultant and bestselling author Peter Drucker wrote, “The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.” That is, indeed, true for service providers, as new technologies increasingly adopted this year are a catalyst for change in nearly all aspects of the services business. Here are four