Critical GBS Industry Shifts from SSOW Estoril That Every Leader Needs to Know

By Tony Saldanha | May 2026 The GBS industry shifts emerging from SSOW Estoril 2026 mark a genuine turning point for our profession. It is very clear that we are in the midst of a fundamental shift in the GBS industry. SSOW Estoril 2026 was something of a watershed moment. The tone of conversations at […]

Who Is Going to Upskill You on AI? Reflections on AI upskilling for GBS professionals

AI upskilling for GBS professionals has quietly become one of the most consequential questions in our industry. I was in Singapore a few weeks ago when Budget 2026 was announced. Tucked into the speech by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong was something that caught my attention: Singaporeans who enroll in selected AI training courses will receive […]

You Don’t Have a Strategy Problem. You Have a Capability Problem.

Why 70% of Enterprise Transformations Fail, and What It Takes to Build Enterprise Transformation Capability That Lasts Every enterprise is somewhere on a transformation journey, but very few have built true enterprise transformation capability, the permanent organizational muscle that allows change to compound rather than collapse. Some organizations are still operating in reactive silos, with […]

Revolutionizing Business Operations with Tony Saldanha: Episode #1 Agentic AI

Agentic AI: The End of Hallucination in Business Operations? with Ajit Kumar Kunji, VP and Head of GBS at Salesforce. Welcome to our new podcast series, Revolutionizing Business Operations with Tony Saldanha. The series will feature Tony sitting down for candid conversations with senior executives who have lived large-scale change from the inside to explore […]

Filippo and Tony’s Global Business Services Predictions for 2026

Global Business Services Predictions for 2026 from Filippo Passerini and Tony Saldanha, Inixia Co-Founders. It’s a new year, which means new opportunities and new challenges for GBS. Or does it? In other words, is the GBS change-cycle annual in nature? While most company priorities and performance management processes tend to be yearly, the GBS industry […]