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Business Process Transformation Advisory

Transform and optimize your business operations to drive measurable business value, agility and resilience.

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Intelligent Business Operations.
Building a More Adaptable Enterprise

Organizations are under pressure to improve productivity, respond faster to change and deliver better experiences for customers and employees. Business process transformation provides the foundation by connecting people, technology and data across the enterprise. 

Buyers want providers to lead on AI but can't govern it. 

21%

of enterprises have the internal skills to govern AI-enabled BPO services.

Two-thirds expect their providers to lead AI adoption, and 70% expect more innovation from them. Traditional service-level agreements weren't built to measure either. Without new outcome measures and governance, you pay for activity while providers keep the productivity gains.

Source: ISG 2026 State of BPO Report

 

AI is in the process. The value isn't there yet. 

43% vs 14%

of enterprises use AI in outsourced processes mainly for efficiency against 14% reaching AI-first outcomes.

More than half of enterprises have moved beyond labor-led BPO models. Most AI still sits on top of existing workflows, where it trims cost but leaves the process design, roles and commercial terms unchanged. The larger gains depend on redesigning all three.

Source: ISG 2026 State of BPO Report

 

The strongest results come when technology is combined with process redesign, effective governance and a clear focus on measurable business outcomes. 

The next frontier is intelligent, outcome-based operations where human insight and digital intelligence converge to deliver agility, transparency and measurable business value. 

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Transforming Business Operations

We help organizations to leverage AI innovation to redesign and optimize operations, delivering measurable business outcomes. Combining our deep industry expertise, data-driven insights and proven advisory methodologies, we partner with clients to reimagine their operating models, aligning people, processes and technology to achieve agility, efficiency and growth.

We help you go beyond incremental improvement to achieve impactful transformation that lasts.

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Optimize your business operations across the enterprise

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Our Business Process Transformation Capabilities

ISG's advisory spans the full transformation lifecycle, strengthened by our independent perspective, market insights and proven results. 

Process Diagnostics & Benchmarking

Identify performance gaps and improvement opportunities through comparative analytics, using ISG’s proprietary benchmarks for actionable insights. 

Target Operating Model Design

Build an agile, scalable, digital-first operating model aligned with business outcomes, informed by ISG’s market intelligence. 

AI Enablement

Integrate AI, intelligent automation and advanced analytics to enable data-backed decisions and accelerate innovation. 

Continuous Improvement & Governance

Foster a performance-driven culture with ongoing optimization and governance for sustained success. 

Change Management & Workforce Readiness

Prepare and enable teams to embrace new processes and technologies for lasting, successful adoption, ensuring ROI targets for your tech investments are met.

Strategic Sourcing

Apply ISG’s FutureSource™ methodology, AI-enabled platform, IP templates and expertise to make evidence-based and future-ready sourcing decisions. 

Transformation with Global Capability Centers (GCCs)

Design, build, and optimize GCCs and GBS as strategic enablers of transformation, leveraging global talent, automation and analytics to deliver scalability, innovation and measurable business value. 

Results our clients acheive:

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20-40 %
process efficiency improvement
25 %
reduction in operating costs
+
accelerated adoption of automation and AI
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2026

The Global State of Business Process Outsourcing Report

Discover how AI is redefining the future of Business Process Services.

Meet Our Team

Robert Stapleton

Robert Stapleton

Partner

Robert Stapleton

Robert Stapleton

Robert Stapleton is an ISG Partner and a North American Business Process lead. Robert brings more than 30 years of execution, management and leadership experience in technology centered strategy, consulting, strategic sourcing, service delivery and advisory services.

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Bill Huber

Bill Huber

Partner

Bill Huber

Bill Huber

Bill works with the world’s leading companies to identify, implement, and accelerate improved capabilities and better ways of working, and to align and optimize the network of strategic suppliers and partners. These efforts have driven hundreds of millions in savings for his clients.

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Shahid Bhatty

Shahid Bhatty

Director

Shahid Bhatty

Shahid Bhatty

Shahid Bhatty is a proven procurement and supply chain management leader who brings significant experience in outsourcing advisory services, procurement transformation, organizational design & development, and project management. He has developed deep expertise in leading strategy assessments, benchmarking and feasibility studies, RFP development, supplier evaluation & selection, contract negotiations and implementation services. He has led procurement operations, implemented digital strategies, and managed large & complex strategic sourcing initiatives both in operational and outsourcing roles.

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Stacey Cadigan

Stacey Cadigan

Partner

Stacey Cadigan

Stacey Cadigan

Stacey Cadigan is an HR thought leader who is passionate about HR and talent management. With more than 20 years in HR, she has leveraged her deep experience and expertise to help clients achieve their strategic, operational, and financial objectives. Through her diverse experience in HR strategy, HRO operations, RPO, HR technology, and transitions, she has developed unique insight and the ability to ask the right questions in assisting organizations with finding solutions to effectively align their HR initiatives with their vision. Stacey was named “HR Thought Leader of the Year” in 2016 and “HRO Superstar” by HRO Today Services and Technology Association for 2016–2024.

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Daniel Choo

Daniel Choo

Director

Daniel Choo

Daniel Choo

Daniel (Danny) heads up the BAS (Business Advisory Services) in APAC, providing leadership and in depth expertise in Business Strategy, Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement, ERP optimization and Business Transformations. He works with MNC and Government clients both locally and across Asia and has extensive client and supply side experience. The BAS practice delivers comprehensive end to end transformational services in support of its clients.

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Jarrod Magill

Jarrod Magill

Partner

Jarrod Magill

Jarrod Magill

Jarrod's focus at ISG is delivering transformational outsourcing and shared services engagements for clients across all sectors. These engagements deliver significant savings through labor arbitrage and improved productivity, but also provide and uplift in organizational capability by accessing large pools of talent offshore. Jarrod works across all enterprise functions including Finance, Contact Centers, Procurement, Human Resources, IT and Operations. 

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Matt Shaheen

Matt Shaheen

Director

Matt Shaheen

Matt Shaheen

Matt Shaheen is a Director at ISG with more than 30 years of experience in procurement, finance and accounting and IT, most of those years with service providers. Matt has worked with an extensive number of clients on well over $1 billion worth of transactions.

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Shweta Taneja

Shweta Taneja

Service Line Director

Shweta Taneja

Shweta Taneja

Shweta is the director of BPO/GCC for ISG’s UK, and Nordics business. She designs and delivers shared services, outsourcing, or GCC setup/expansion strategies for clients. She assesses current-state operations and builds operating models, location strategies, workforce plans, and process optimization roadmaps. Her aim is to drive digital transformation involving automation (RPA/AI), process standardization, and efficiency improvements. 

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Ed Walsh

Ed Walsh

Principal Consultant

Ed Walsh

Ed Walsh

Ed helps clients optimize the delivery of operational services, including facilities management. Since joining ISG, he has led the RFP process for managing facilities for a large North American printer with more than 100 sites, 80 of them production facilities. He also advised a top European bank on management of its North American branch network. He has handled assessments for clients in health care, manufacturing, payment services, hospitality and data center infrastructure. Ed is widely published as a thought leader in outsourcing. He also contributes commentary on topics of interest to financial services institutions. 

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Troy Williams

Troy Williams

Partner

Troy Williams

Troy Williams

Troy Williams leads a team that provides independent governance and advisory services to help clients with their digital transformations. Leveraging ISG’s market leading research and governance tools, Troy helps clients reduce operational costs through enhanced vendor governance, technology sourcing strategies and as a service delivery models, whilst improving customer and employee experience by advising clients on how to digitally transform and leverage data-driven personalization through automation and AI.

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