TBR Talks · 2026-06-05 · 28 min
In this episode of “TBR Talks,” TBR President Chris Foster joins host Patrick Heffernan and Principal Analyst Bozhidar Hristov to discuss how TBR is tackling defining and measuring AI investments in the ever-evolving market. The trio looks at AI maturity and its impact on the broader technology ecosystem and introduces the latest in qualitative and quantitative benchmarking and analysis, TBR’s Human Intensity Reduction Index, also known as HIRI, a direct measure of the impact of a company’s AI, human capital, automation, utilization, offshore leverage and delivery model evolution on their operating margin. Click here to learn more about HIRI . Listen and learn with TBR Talks! Submit your Key Intelligence Questions for Patrick and his guests . Learn more about TBR at
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