Episode 80
Nov 14, 2024
A Deep Dive into the State of the Professional Services Industry
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In this insightful episode of the Professional Services Pursuit podcast, host Brent welcomes back John Ragsdale, Distinguished Researcher, Vice President of Technology Ecosystems at TSIA. The conversation dives deep into the key findings from Kantata's State of the Professional Services Industry Report and TSIA's 2024 Technology Survey. Join them as they geek out over some insightful new data and discuss the top trends happening in professional services.
Key topics discussed include:
- Survey insights and market optimism
- The challenges with legacy PSA tools
- The importance of data quality and integration for AI implementation
- The need for better forecasting tools to manage demand and resource allocation
- The shift from a launch and leave mentality to client retention and satisfaction
Explore the full State of the Professional Services Industry Report now and visit TSIA Featured Insights to become a member and access all of the amazing content that they have available
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Banoo Behboodi
Vice President, Success Engineering
Banoo Behboodi is a 20+ year software and services leader with extensive experience executing change initiatives with oversight of Customer Success, Professional Services and Delivery and Consulting functions. Banoo’s earlier experiences with AT&T Mobility, Coca-Cola Company and Ernst & Young leading key transformational and compliance projects, provided the foundation needed to be an effective leader and a change agent with a customer first mindset. Banoo is passionate about driving continuous improvement through sharing best practices and empowering resources through technology and analytics to optimize performance and job satisfaction while driving business outcomes.
Brent Trimble
Vice President, Value Engineering
Brent brings more than 15+ year’s of leadership experience in Management Consulting, Strategic Delivery, Marketing services and product development firms to his technology role at Kantata. As the VP of Value Engineering and the Managing Director of Marketing Service & Agency Vertical, he specializes in identifying process improvement potential, business optimization and key health metrics for alignment and orientation.
With deep business understanding through an operator lens - Brent works with Kantata partner firms to refine intrinsic and extrinsic value drivers - giving firm principals the focus required for adoption, mobilization, value realization and ultimately - success.
Prior to joining Kantata, Brent was a client of the platform and held positions at Interpublic Group, Accenture, WPP, and independent marketing consulting firms.