Call for Papers

 
The 2009 Outsourcing World Summit®, IAOP’s annual event, is designed for experienced executives seeking the very latest insights.  Papers should provide specific actionable solutions to current challenges faced by experienced professionals.  Sessions should not simply demonstrate the idea of outsourcing, its overall implementation, or merely provide a list of potential problems to be avoided.   All presentations should provide the attendee at least three “takeaway” bullet points.

The theme for this 12^th edition of The Summit is The New Management Science of Outsourcing.

The Summit program will examine how outsourcing and the full spectrum of flexible resourcing solutions, such as shared services, offshoring, global talent management, multi-provider, multi-process outsourcing, and other approaches are all coming together to fundamentally transform businesses and economies. 

Keynote sessions, featuring top practitioners and thinkers from both inside and outside the field of outsourcing, are combined with parallel tracks that drill down into the new management science of outsourcing providing attendees a 360°  perspective of this exciting business profession.

Programming for The 2009 Outsourcing World Summit® consists of six educational tracks each made up of multiple 50-minute sessions, providing the opportunity to further explore the theme of the Summit and offering views from all different perspectives.  The selection of tracks also reflects the feedback from the past Summits and the attendee survey conducted after The 2008 Outsourcing World Summit.

Each of the tracks will have presentations from noted speakers and thought leaders and will be a balanced view from customer, provider and advisor’s points of view.  Each track will also feature special presentations that directly highlight a single dimension of the overall Summit theme.

The tracks for The 2009 Outsourcing World Summit® are:

1.  Customer Experiences

This track showcases actual customer experiences  and explores and demonstrates best practices in implementing all the forms of flexible resourcing seen in business today,  Sessions  in this track will dig deep into specific customer implementations, within various industries and functions, as well as in an ever-expanding number of locations around the globe.

2.  Provider Experiences
 

This track focuses on experiences, issues, and solutions of special interest to outsourcing professionals involved in providing outsourcing solutions to clients. Sessions in this track will explore the challenges service providers face in building and delivering services in this highly-competitive industry, in growing their businesses, attracting and retaining talent, achieving continuous improvement, and many other key aspects of their operations.

3. The Management Profession of Outsourcing

As a profession, outsourcing is today the chosen career path for hundreds of thousands of individuals all around the world. This track explores issues of specific interest to these professionals in building and advancing in their careers.  Sessions in this track, will focus on topics such as career planning and progression, skill development, certification, salary and compensation, changing roles between customer, provider, and advisor, and other topics of direct, practical impact.  Latest findings from IAOP’s ground-breaking Career Mapping Initiative will be shared.

4.  The Management Science of Outsourcing

As a new management science, outsourcing has several sub-disciplines that form the basis for its successful application to business.  Sessions in this track will look at these disciplines, tools and processes and explore them through presentations, panel discussion, and research findings. This track asks and answers the question “If I could change the world of outsourcing, what would I do?”

5.  Socially Responsible Outsourcing

There is no denying the fact that as powerful a management tool as outsourcing is, its brand image is decidedly negative.  In spite of the value outsourcing creates everyday, it is equated in the public’s and even many employees’, managers’, and shareholders’ minds with job loss, poor quality and lax security.  How can outsourcing professionals overcome this?  By arming themselves and others with the facts, by sharing a vision of enhanced excellence and quality through outsourcing and by making Socially Responsible Outsourcing a priority in everything they do.  Sessions in this track will take these topics head-on.

6. Strategies for Tomorrow’s Success

Sessions in this track will focus on the strategies that will make outsourcing and all of the forms of flexible resourcing it includes not simply successful today, but well into the future.  It will showcase some of the most innovative studies and ground-breaking ideas coming into the field from around the world and across the industry.  It will cover the new options most likely to be available to businesses tomorrow and how to get ready for them today.

You do not need to be an IAOP member to submit a proposal.  However, although all sessions are selected first and foremost for their thought-leadership and actionable value, IAOP Corporate Members and then Professional Members receive priority consideration.   To find out if your company is a Corporate Member, contact Jeni Stamas at jeni.stamas@outsourcingprofessional.org.

The deadline for submissions is August 4, 2008.   Please direct any questions to IAOP’s Operations Manager, Shea Dixon, at shea.dixon@outsourcingprofessional.org

You will be notified by August 25^th if your proposal has been selected.  Due to the sheer number of submissions, only accepted proposals will be acknowledged.

All presenters are invited to an exclusive speakers’ reception at the Summit on Sunday evening, February 15, 2009.

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