{"id":1861,"date":"2009-07-16T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/tpi-loses-its-talisman\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T10:59:00","slug":"tpi-loses-its-talisman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/tpi-loses-its-talisman\/","title":{"rendered":"TPI loses its talisman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter Allen\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8356fb76c69e2010536264dd2970b \" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/images\/6a00d8356fb76c69e2010536264dd2970b-800wi.jpg\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 5px\" title=\"Peter Allen\" \/>One of the grandfathers of the outsourcing industry is Peter Allen (see his <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2008\/12\/taking-the-sourcing-temperature-a-chat-with-peter-allen.html\"><strong>recent interview<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#0160;with us), who has established himself over the years as one of the pre-eminent thought-leaders, practitioners and faces of the industry.&#0160; Peter has also been one of my closest industry companions in blogging&#0160;on global sourcing issues, with his popular&#0160;&quot;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.considerthesourceblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Consider the Source<\/strong><\/a><strong>&quot; blog-journal.&#0160; He has also been the consistent face of leading sourcing advisor <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpi.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TPI<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Peter resigned from TPI to pursue other opportunities in the industry, after many years with the firm.&#0160; There is no shortage of suitors for his services&#8230; and I look forward to hearing where he lands.&#0160; Peter wanted to share his personal thoughts with <em>Horses<\/em> readers at this time: <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #0000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">&quot;The global outsourcing and offshoring industry needs to step up to a new level of performance. The sources of leverage that can bring value to companies far transcend wage arbitrage. I want to help bring to reality a new class of leverage &#8211; of investments, platforms, and solutions.&quot; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #0000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">&quot;It has been a privilege to work alongside my colleagues at TPI. A twenty-year record of great outcomes for clients and providers alike is the product of commitment to a culture of value creation for all participants. We do that.&quot; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: #0000bf; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">&quot;The current global recession is an awakening for the industry &#8211; as much opportunity for redefinition as it is risk of irrelevance. I really believe that the winning equation is one that maximizes the power of leverage to the benefit of productivity. That means that buyers and providers adopt new models for partnership to weather variances in economic conditions.&quot;<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These are critical times for the outsourcing advisors.&#0160;The process of managing outsourcing transactions has increasingly commodotized over the last couple of years, and&#0160;the recession has only exacerbated this issue.&#0160; The sourcing advisors need to focus on helping clients <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2009\/06\/stagnation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disrupt their current global business infrastructures<\/a>, help them execute after the transaction and manage the ongoing outsourced environment.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">People like Peter understand this, and I hope advisory firms like TPI continue the work he has done in helping drive these new areas of competency, and hiring consultants who have other skills than solely deal negotiation.&#0160; Those that focus purely on cranking out transactions will struggle to grow in this new environment.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"COLOR: #3b5738; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS\">Good luck Peter -&#0160;I know many people in the industry join me in wishing you well on&#0160;your future journey.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the grandfathers of the outsourcing industry is Peter Allen (see his recent interview&#0160;with us), who has established himself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,81,86,88],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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