Services Sourcing Strategy: How Should Leaders Adjust In The Light Of Changing Market Conditions?

Air Date: Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Sourcing & Vendor Management professionals

Description:

Forrester survey data, including detailed tracking of EMEA outsourcing deals behavior in 2008 and the annual IT services survey from Business Data Services, shows how services sourcing decision-makers have set their priorities through the onset and continuation of the current recession. With the economic tide beginning to turn in many countries, sourcing leaders need to consider how to adjust their services sourcing strategies in order to support their organizations' path back to growth.

There's no one-size-fits-all prescription for moving strategy forward. Instead, top sourcing execs must keep in mind the circumstances under which they operate. The financial strength of their organization, the effectiveness and stability of senior management, and other factors like the trends in their own industry — each affect how services sourcing must move forward.

This session evaluates the current context of services sourcing and offers a set of analytical tools to assist sourcing leaders with reassessing the context in which they must build-out a new forward-looking strategy. It also marks out some recommendations for services sourcing strategy priorities, based on a number of different archetypal positions, in which individual organizations may currently operate.

Agenda:

• Appraising the current services sourcing climate and how firms have changed priorities in the wake of the recession
• Defining an analytical approach to support sourcing leaders in understanding the business context for services sourcing strategy planning for the next 12 to 24 months
• Exploring how the current business context of your organization will influence your services sourcing priorities in the months to come

Related Research:

Sourcing Lessons From 2008 EMEA IT Outsourcing Deal Activity

by Andrew Parker, July 21, 2009

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