<\/a><\/p>\n1)\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>\n2)\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>\n3)\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>\nWe’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>\nWe 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>\nSo 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>\nSee 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":"Welcome to the “Amazing Horse Race” The “Amazing Horse Race” is the ultimate public bloodbath of the sourcing industry, as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,86,87,88,832],"tags":[303],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"\n
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