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Reverberations & Transformations: the Changing Soul of BPO
Lately I’ve been taking note of how many BPOs are marketing their transformation into new kinds of service providers. Earlier this month...

Stephen Loynd
Mar 31, 20216 min read


The Game of Life
It seems as if everybody is talking about GameStop. The saga is just the latest episode in our continuing, quickening drama of...

Stephen Loynd
Jan 31, 20214 min read


Gatsby's Return?
Goodbye, 2020. At the end of this historic and difficult year, one somewhat surprising question has been on my mind. As hard as this past...

Stephen Loynd
Dec 31, 20205 min read


From Hobgoblin to Hero: What if Outsourcing Stepped out of the Shadows?
It’s All Hallows’ Eve, 2020, and we’re haunted by Covid19’s effects on our health and economy. As jobs are lost amid businesses’ ongoing...

Stephen Loynd
Oct 31, 20208 min read


The End of the World News
More and more is happening…. More connectivity occurs now in a calendar year than occurred in a million years a billion years ago. So...

Stephen Loynd
Sep 29, 20204 min read


Tiger Burning Bright: GPT-3 Released into the World
I spoke with a very special person whose name is not relevant at this time, and what they told me was that my framework was perfect. If I...

Stephen Loynd
Jul 30, 20206 min read


Along the Frictionless Plane: The Case of ThinScale
Innovation, security and end-user experience are at the core of our ethos and act as touchstones throughout the development process...

Stephen Loynd
Jul 22, 20207 min read


Twilio & Electric Imp: Testing Business Models in the Wild
On July 9, 2020, Twilio announced that it had recently acquired Electric Imp (which had raised over $40 million in funding prior to the...

Stephen Loynd
Jul 13, 20205 min read


Managing a Chaotic Network Environment: Choose Reinforcements Wisely
In 2020, enterprise telecommunications infrastructure is a communications ecosystem in a state of flux. This expanding, often vast...

Stephen Loynd
Jul 9, 20208 min read


Can Offshore Outsourcing Keep up with the Kardashians?
The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV. - Kim...

Stephen Loynd
Jun 29, 20208 min read


Outsourcing vs. a New Hamiltonianism: is a Future Duel Inevitable?
Last week, a story on outsourcing caught my attention. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) – the largest United States government-owned...

Stephen Loynd
May 12, 20208 min read


Gazing Toward a Digital Shore
The name of the seminar was “Paradigm Shifts.” It was one of my first required college classes. In retrospect, it’s easy to see that our...

Stephen Loynd
Apr 5, 20209 min read


Outsourcing: Etherized Upon a Table?
For sixteen years as an analyst, I’ve been hearing one constant refrain from business process outsourcing (BPO) and contact center...

Stephen Loynd
Mar 26, 20207 min read


Groans of Globalization (Present-Tense Sci-Fi)
Cromwell was about to ravage all Christendom; the royal family was undone, and his own forever established, save for a little grain of...

Stephen Loynd
Feb 29, 20209 min read


Cisco: Racing to Deliver a Connected Digital Experience
The following are some thoughts on the recent Cisco Collaboration Analyst Summit, which I tuned into remotely via Twitter, LinkedIN, and...

Stephen Loynd
Feb 16, 20206 min read


Avaya: Between the Push & the Pull
Avaya ENGAGE took place earlier this week. I followed along via Twitter and Facebook to think it through, seeking to discern what’s ahead...

Stephen Loynd
Feb 7, 20206 min read


Genesys: A Cloudburst of Microservices
Toward 2020: Deeper into the Cloud Genesys, the private software company and customer experience (CX) platform supplier, held its annual...

Stephen Loynd
Dec 6, 20194 min read


Ten Years Gone: Remembering a Blinkered BPO Backlash
The United States economy continues to chug along, and unemployment is at the lowest rate it’s been in half a century. When it comes to...

Stephen Loynd
Nov 27, 20194 min read


The Strange Case of Europe's Missing Tech Giants (A Poirot-Inspired Mystery)
The Case Set Forth It was Saturday night, November 9, 2019 – less than two weeks ago – and I was thinking about how so much of history...

Stephen Loynd
Nov 20, 20195 min read


The Teleperformance Innovation Experience Center (TIEC): Serving Disruptors & the Disrupted
The spring of 2004 seems like a long time ago. I was poking around online, trying to learn more about a company by the name of SR...

Stephen Loynd
Oct 30, 20193 min read
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