Phil Fersht Email & Phone Number

Phil Fersht is widely recognized as the world's leading industry analyst focused on the reinvention of business operations to exploit technological innovations and the globalization of talent. He identifies change agents enabling organizations to streamline digital operations, access rapid and critical data, and exploit the increasingly available global base of talent. He coined the term “Generative Enterprise™” in 2023, articulating the pursuit of AI technologies based on Large Language Models (LLMs) and ChatGPT to reap huge business benefits to organizations in terms of continuously generating new ideas, redefining how work gets done and disrupting business models steeped in decades of antiquated processes and technology.His reputation drove him to establish HFS Research in 2010, which today is one of the leading industry analyst and advisory firms and the undisputed leader in business and tech services and process technologies research.In 2012, he authored the first analyst report on Robotic Process Automation (RPA), introducing this topic to the industry. He is widely recognized as the pioneering analyst voice that created and inspired today's RPA and process AI industry.Fersht coined the term "OneOffice" in 2016, which describes HFS' vision for future business operations amidst the impact of cloud, automation, AI, and disruptive digital business models. OneOffice is the foundation of the hybrid (virtual-physical) workforce, where automation and AI tools augment the employee’s digital capabilities, and the workplace becomes a plug-and-play, work-from-anywhere scenario. Silos between front and back-office are collapsed into one single office, where employees are empowered and motivated by common outcomes and values. Prior to founding HFS in 2010, Phil has held various analyst roles for Gartner (AMR) and IDC and was BPO Marketplace leader for Deloitte Consulting across the United States. Over the past 20 years, Fersht has lived and worked in Europe, North-America, and Asia, where he has advised on hundreds of operations strategy, outsourcing, and global business services engagements.He is also the author of the most widely-read and acclaimed blog in the global services industry, entitled “Horses for Sources” now entering its 18th year. He is a regular keynote speaker at major industry events, such as NASSCOM, ANDI, ABSL, Sourcing Interests Group and HFS Research Summits. He has been named Analyst of the Year on three separate occasions by the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations, which voted on 170 other leading IT industry analysts.

Listed skills include Outsourcing, Offshoring, Bpo, Consulting, and 46 others.