{"id":1060,"date":"2015-03-01T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/sourcing-savants-3_030115\/"},"modified":"2015-03-01T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:17:00","slug":"sourcing-savants-3_030115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/sourcing-savants-3_030115\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infamous Sourcing Savants are back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/attendee.gotowebinar.com\/register\/1936289818886435074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Sourcing-Savants_Promo_Pic.jpg\" alt=\"Sourcing Savants_Promo_Pic\" width=\"588\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Oh no! We&#8217;re back on your laptop screen this 26th March at 11.00am ET.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Yes, that sad little attempt by HfS to assemble a cacophony of industry advisor gurus onto one webinar platform just refuses to go away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And we can see that you just can&#8217;t stay away from the entertainment either, so let&#8217;s just launch into our latest attempt to create a little bit o&#8217; clarity to your confusing worklife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please join our latest suite of sourcing savants of sourcing soliloquy later this\u00a0month as we violently argue (or agree) on the the following burning topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">What are the\u00a0burning platforms driving enterprises to make real changes to their IT and Operations infrastructures?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">First we get hit with &#8220;Digital&#8221;, then &#8220;Robotics&#8221;, then &#8220;Artificial Intelligence&#8221;. \u00a0Is the dear lord of sourcing smoking something, or is there some real substance into what is happening in our industry?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Does this mean that our traditional outsourcing industry is dying? \u00a0Are enterprise clients really evolving <em>this quickly<\/em> to these As-a-Service models?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is our talent keeping up with this As-a-Service revolution &#8211; across buyers, advisors and service providers? \u00a0And what can we do to retrain ourselves and our staff to get with the program?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">So what does our future <em>really<\/em> look like is this new world into which we&#8217;re venturing, when we show up to work in our iCar and are\u00a0served coffee by a robot?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Yes, we will really answer all those questions for you once and for all, or at least our esteemed panelists <em>claim<\/em> they will:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/cts.vresp.com\/c\/?HfSResearch\/cc19016a06\/010230734f\/b17bfa1ac0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to Register Your Spot on 26 March at 11.00am ET, 4.00pm BST<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>We hope you can join us on <span tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1778514606\">March 26th<\/span>! \u00a0And it&#8217;s <em>free<\/em> so what&#8217;s there to complain about..<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no! 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