The AI Maturity Gap: What Separates Leaders from Followers

In July 2026, SPI Research and sa.global brought together experts in professional services performance and AI enablement to explore a growing challenge for architecture, engineering and accounting firms: the gap between adopting AI and achieving meaningful business impact. SPI Research’s latest research indicates a direct relationship between a firm’s position on the AI maturity curve […]

SPI Research at International Services Week 2026

SPI Research webinar at International Services Week 2026 with Dave Hofferberth

SPI Research is presenting at International Services Week 2026 this Tuesday, 23 June, with a live webinar running from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET. Dave Hofferberth will present findings from the Professional Services Maturity Benchmark, covering performance trends across revenue growth, billable utilisation, on-time delivery and profitability. The session also examines AI adoption patterns, […]

SPI Releases 2025’s Service Productization Benchmark

Service Productization Benchmark, Productization: Promise, Plateau, or the path ahead for Services?

Service Performance Insight (SPI Research), the global authority on professional services performance improvement, today announced the release of the 2025 Service Productization Benchmark — a productization focussed update to SPI’s original SLM³™ framework introduced in 2012.

Survey Launch: Help Shape the 2025 Service Lifecycle & Productization Benchmark

The 2025 Service Lifecycle Management Maturity Model™ (SLM³™) is SPI’s ground-breaking framework combining service lifecycle and productization fundamentals, first established in 2012, to help Professional Services organizations (PSOs) productize, scale, and manage their service offerings across the full lifecycle — from ideation through delivery to retirement - with maturity measurement at the core of how to measure progress.

We’ve officially opened the survey window for the 2025 edition of SPI’s Service Lifecycle Management Maturity Model (SLM³) — our updated benchmark for how professional services firms scale, package, and deliver their offerings. First introduced in 2012, the original SLM³ framework was one of the first to focus on the service lifecycle end-to-end. Now, we’re […]