Enterprise Research & Advisory Services

We bring together people, ideas, and research to support bold decisions

HFS Research has empowered Fortune 500 companies to navigate complex IT and business landscapes for over a decade. As a leading global research and advisory firm, we deliver bold, research-driven insights and an outsider’s unbiased perspective to help enterprises stay ahead of the curve.

Our approach brings together industry-leading analysts and advisors—who are deeply embedded in your industry’s unique challenges—to collaborate with your team through workshop-driven engagements. We deliver actionable strategies that go beyond surface-level trends, ensuring direct access to our senior experts and bypassing the typical “B-team” experience.

Ready to transform your enterprise and overcome your toughest challenges? Contact us today to schedule a complimentary consultation.

Our services:

Our strategy workshops can help you drive stakeholder alignment and provide an unbiased, outside-in view of your innovation vision and approach.

Transform strategic vision into measurable results through expert-guided workshops and assessments. We help you accelerate innovation, align stakeholders, and drive ROI through:

  • Strategic alignment workshops that create unified organizational direction.
  • OneOffice stakeholder sessions to break down operational silos.
  • Innovation acceleration workshops to drive rapid, sustainable transformation.
  • AI/GenAI maturity assessments benchmarked against industry leaders.

Maximize partnership value and optimize vendor relationships through data-driven portfolio strategies. Our approach includes:

  • Vendor portfolio analysis to identify consolidation opportunities and cost savings.
  • Strategic RFP development and advisory to ensure optimal vendor selection.
  • Third-party relationship assessments to enhance partnership performance.
  • Contract reviews and benchmarking against industry standards.
  • Technology and service provider recommendations tailored to your transformation goals.
  • Vendor management training to build internal capabilities.

Drive operational excellence through targeted performance optimization. We help you:

  • Assess operating models against industry best practices.
  • Benchmark pricing through exclusive HEX Advisory Group partnership data.
  • Optimize processes through comprehensive benchmarking.
  • Navigate GBS/GCC transformation with expert support.

Accelerate organizational transformation through expert guidance. Our approach delivers:

  • Quarterly strategic feedback to maintain transformation momentum.
  • Leadership coaching to build change management capabilities.
  • Enterprise-wide perspective alignment.
  • Practical emerging technology implementation roadmaps.

Gain competitive advantage through actionable market intelligence. We provide:

  • Premium access to HFS’ latest research and insights.
  • Exclusive Onecouncil membership benefits.
  • Direct participation in industry roundtables and summits.
  • Strategic guidance through analyst advisory sessions.

Experience the difference with HFS

HFS Enterprise Research and Advisory Services bridges research and execution, combining market insights with practical guidance to accelerate enterprise transformation.

Here’s what sets us apart:

  • Speed to value: Through data-driven insights and frameworks, we cut through complexity to deliver repeatable, scalable transformation success.
  • Practitioner-led: Led by practitioners who’ve done the work, we provide actionable guidance beyond PowerPoint—showing you exactly how to execute.
  • Unvarnished truth: We provide direct, unvarnished truth, cutting through market hyperbole with deep expertise and data-backed conviction to drive confident enterprise decisions.
  • Right-sized engagement: Our flexible delivery approach combines workshops, advisory sessions, industry events, and research access to complement your existing capabilities without the overhead of traditional consulting.
  • HFS OneCouncil: OneCouncil is our exclusive brain trust of enterprise leaders and practitioners who validate insights, provide peer perspectives, and co-create actionable strategies to help tackle your biggest challenges.

Looking to tackle your biggest challenges and drive real transformation?

Reach out to schedule a complimentary consultation with us today.

Be the Disruptor

As a trusted analyst partner, we help companies tackle challenges, make bold moves, and bring big ideas to life.

We are living in a world where industry lines are blurring, and new technologies, process innovations, and competitors appear almost daily. In such a highly dynamic, complex, and technology-driven business environment, no single organization, no matter its size or influence, can go it alone. New sources of value can no longer be found just by looking inwards.

To continue to grow and innovate, enterprises need effective collaboration and connection points across an entire ecosystem of

partners. But given the pace of change, creating and maintaining an effective and efficient ecosystem or providing relevant services within one is a significant business challenge.

Our mission is to help our clients—both service providers and the companies that rely on them—tackle challenges, make bold moves, and bring big ideas to life by arming them with accurate, visionary, and thought-provoking insights into issues that impact their business.

The HFS difference

HFS is a leading global research and analyst organization. We specialize in helping businesses manage the complexities of today’s strategic alliance and technology partner ecosystems, both those seeking to create and maintain an effective and efficient ecosystem, and those seeking to provide the most relevant services within one.

We closely watch key industry sectors, market trends, and competitive pressures, and carefully track emerging technologies and delivery model innovations, the companies that provide them, and the impacts they have on the industry. Our analysts and strategists are not just academics; they have deep, real-world experience in the subjects they cover. They’re respected for their no-nonsense insights based on data and personal engagements with industry leaders.

We offer deep industry coverage of:

Banking and Financial Services
Energy and Utilities
Healthcare and Life Sciences
Industrial Manufacturing
Insurance
Life Sciences
Platform-economy Digital Businesses
Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods
Technology, Media, and Communications
Travel, Hospitality, and Logistics

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