{"id":1559,"date":"2011-01-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/amazing-horse-race-012511\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T11:00:00","slug":"amazing-horse-race-012511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/amazing-horse-race-012511\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s cut through the fluff and discover what\u2019s really going in the sourcing industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the “Amazing Horse Race”<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The “Amazing Horse Race” is the ultimate public bloodbath of the sourcing industry, as the “Buy Team” defends the title it so gloriously\u00a0won last year<\/a> in Edinburgh. \u00a0However, this time it’s not going to be quite as easy…<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Your host: Phil Fersht, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, HfS Research<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0The “Sell Team”<\/strong> has been bolstered by signing up Kevin Campbell from the Green Bay Accentures,\u00a0Sheriff\u00a0David Poole from Capgemini, Don “Shoot ’em up” Schulman from IBM, and Bob “Pokerface” Pryor from Genpact;<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0The “Influencer Team” <\/strong>miraculously appears from nowhere to feature such sourcing savviness as KMPG’s Cliff “The Judge” Justice, TPI’s Mark “Marvelous” Mayo, EquaTerra’s Bob “Bulldozer” Cecil, alongside HfS’ own Esteban “Evil” Herrera;<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0The “Buy Team”<\/strong> has\u00a0recruited\u00a0HfS’ own emeritus, the \u00a0veteran of dodgy conference game-shows himself, Lee “Anti-vertical silo”\u00a0Coulter (now with Ascension Health),\u00a0the MSA master from MassMutual himself,\u00a0Srini “KPI crusher” Krishnamurthy, Northern Trust’s Jay “Dangerous” Desai, and is rumored to be in discussions with Wal-Mart’s Michael “The Miracle” Lockard \u00a0about securing his quarterback services. \u00a0And a\u00a0mystery buyer<\/em>,\u00a0endowed\u00a0with special sourcing skills, may well be unveiled shortly…<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>We’ll be at The Peabody in\u00a0Orlando for the 15th Annual\u00a0North American\u00a0Shared Services &\u00a0Outsourcing Week with our friends from SSON. And on\u00a0Thursday, March 3 at\u00a08:30 AM, we’re expecting some fireworks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ll be staging the\u00a0ultimate contest of unbridled wits and cunning, by challenging\u00a0contestants from the very peaks of the outsourcing industry: those who buy it, those who provide it\u2026 and those who\u00a0influence it.\u00a0We\u2019ll discuss (and maybe, if you’re lucky) argue about these questions:<\/p>\n
* Why didn\u2019t<\/em> outsourcing \u201creplace\u201d shared services?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
* Do today\u2019s organizations really function better<\/em> once they\u2019ve outsourced key processes?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
* Are today\u2019s organizations getting a lot of innovation from outsourcing \u2013 and, if not, can<\/em> they in the future?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
* What\u2019s all the hype about Cloud computing, and will it really<\/em> impact outsourcing and shared services?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
* And where\u2019s this all really going? Are we on a race to the bottom, or somewhere else<\/em>?<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

\n<\/strong><\/div>\n

We know you’ll want to be in Orlando with us, s0 HfS Research has negotiated a great deal for our subscribers:<\/p>\n

If you register by February 7th, with code ‘SSOW_HfS’ you’ll save 15%*<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So here’s how you do it. Just email\u00a0james.wight@ssonetwork.com<\/a> for more info. Or call 1-800-882-8684. And remember to use the special code: SSOW_HfS.<\/p>\n

See you in Orlando!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*This offer can’t be used in conjunction with any offer; offer based on standard prices only.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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