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| IT Offshore 2004: |
| Trends, Issues and Tools for Global Outsourcing Relationships |
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| IT Offshore 2004 is designed to provide insights and best practices to IT and Customer Support managers and leaders who face both challenges and opportunities related to global outsourcing. In addition to presentations by the experts, structured online meetings will be organized to promote interaction and discussions on topics that impact the individual, work groups, and partner organizations. |
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Topics are introduced through streaming narrated presentations. These topics are connected to a discussion area that allows participants to interact asynchronously over the course of the conference. The program also includes a schedule of daily real-time events including online chats, webinars, and teleconferences. |
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| Login at your convenience from your office to learn and share with experts and practitioners |
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| Schedule of Events |
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| Thursday, November 18 |
5 am
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Conference site opens at 5:00 am US Pacific Time |
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Click HERE
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A prerecorded Presentation by
Usha Sekhar
will be available beginning 5:00 am US Pacific Time. You can view the presentations, contribute comments, and post questions in the presenter’s conference room anytime. |
8 am
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Conference Site Orientation |
9 am
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Bill Price, Driva Solutions
-How On Earth Do We Make It Work? |
4 pm
Happy Hour Chat |
Steve Mezak |
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Performing a Health Check of Offshore Operation
Usha Sekhar
neoIT
Many organizations have been operating offshore for some time. Whether thru a joint venture, a wholly owned captive center or a partnership with a supplier, your services globalization strategy can sometimes take a wrong turn. Your company’s operations may need a health check to get back on track. A health check will address all aspects of an engagement from corporate strategy, HR policies, infrastructure and quality of the management team to the financial health of the company, security, disaster recovery and the efficiency of processes. In this presentation Usha Sekhar, helps you understand the steps you need to take to analyze your offshore operations. She will guide you through a process that will help you understand the problems and progress of your current operations. |
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How On Earth Do We Make It Work?
Bill Price,
Founder, President, Driva Solutions, LLC
Coming soon |
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The Seven Deadly Dangers of Outsourcing Software Development - And How Companies Like Yours Can Avoid Them
Steve Mezak,
CEO, Accelerance, Inc.
Companies developing software today seek the promise of outsourcing - decreased cost and accelerated product development. But what about the potential risks? This presentation describes the seven dangers of outsourcing along with detailed information on how successful companies are avoiding them - on their own or using an outsourcing prime contractor like Accelerance. |
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| Friday, November 19 |
5 am
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Prerecorded Presentations by Hamid Nouri and Rusty Weston will be available
beginning 5:00 am US Pacific Time. You can view the presentations, contribute
comments, and post questions in the presenter’s conference room anytime. |
1 PM
Teleconference |
Hamid Nouri |
4 PM
Happy Hour Chat |
Rusty Weston |
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Offshore Sourcing Risks and Mitigation Strategies
Hamid Nouri
President, Virtual Sourcing Group, Inc.
Effective identification and mitigation of offshore sourcing risks.
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Breakthrough BPOs: Worth the Business Risk?
Rusty Weston
Founding Editor,
CMP Managing Offshore
What are the most impactful and transformational business process outsourcing models? What are the keys to establishing an innovative BPO relationship with an offshore provider? What are the risks? Rusty Weston, editor of Managing Offshore
examines the merits of transactional vs. transformational BPO initiatives and
explains why savvy executives are no longer restricting their organization's
business objectives solely to cost-cutting rather than value creation. Hear
examples of breakthrough BPOs and find out what steps your organization needs to
take to succeed at BPO. |
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should register? Consider the benefits: |
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One-tenth the cost of traditional conferences |
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Flexible event schedule - attend anytime during the week |
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Downloadable presentations & practical resources |
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Connect directly with experts |
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Network with other attendees |
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Group discounts |
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Now For Early-bird Discount! |
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| Forrester has estimated that the number of computer jobs moving overseas will grow from 27,171 in 2000 to a cumulative total of 472,632 by 2015. |
| Forrester analysts predict that other services--including call center services and back-office accounting--will follow information technology operations abroad |
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| "The online conference allowed me to participate on my own schedule, save travel time and costs, and come away with new knowledge, practical resources and new relationships. I'd definitely attend again." |
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Laura Hofstetter,
Director of Web Education,
Barry University |
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