| Meeting held – Tuesday, June 19
The second meeting of the Canada chapter was held on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at the offices of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, 66 Wellington Street West, 42nd floor, Dominion Bank Tower, Toronto.
Meeting Topic:
Connected Sourcing: The New Strategy Agenda
CEOs’ priorities, the experiences of leading organizations, and emerging technology trends all suggest that by 2010 the world will be even more global and competitive than it is today. Firms will focus more sharply on what they do best, and they will enlist a growing diversity of specialized suppliers for the rest.
In this world, some outsourced services will become highly commoditized while others will be truly differentiating. Organizations will increasingly look outside their walls not just to reduce costs but for innovation - in processes, product and service differentiation - to free up resources, transform their businesses, and facilitate sustainable competitive advantage. As supply networks become more global and complex, winning will depend on transparency, trustworthiness, and reciprocity -- In a word: collaboration.
Join Robert Scott of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Lisa Abe of Fasken Martineau for a discussion of where outsourcing and offshoring is headed in 2010. They will draw upon new PwC research on how collaboration, enabled by new technologies, is changing the business of outsourcing.
Please mark you calendar for these proposed meetings:
September 2007 & November 2007
Proposed topics for upcoming meetings:
- Outsourcing implementation, governance and administration
- Benchmarking and its alternatives
- IT Security Compliance - emerging issues and practical implications for outsourcing
Inaugural Meeting of the Toronto Chapter Held
The inaugural meeting of the Toronto Chapter of IAOP was held on Thursday, June 29, 2006 and hosted by corporate member Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP.
This meeting was co-hosted and video-conferenced with Fasken’s Toronto, Calgary, Montréal and Vancouver offices. The agenda for the meeting appears below:
Agenda:
Toronto: 11:30 am ET – Registration and Lunch. Program begins 12:00 noon, ends 2:00 Toronto Dominion Bank Tower, Toronto-Dominion Centre, 66 Wellington Street West
Montréal: 11:30 am ET - Registration and Lunch. Program begins at 12:00 noon, ends 2:00 Tour de la Bourse, 800, Place Victoria, 37 e étage Calgary: 9:30 am CT – Registration and Coffee. Program begins 10:00, ends 12:00, 400 First Canadian Centre, 350-7th Avenue, SW, Alberta Vancouver: 8:30 am PT – Registration and Breakfast. Program begins at 9:00, ends at 11:00 2100-1075 West Georgia Street
Program:
Introduction by Michael F. Corbett, Executive Director, IAOP
Launch of the Toronto Chapter of IAOP
Topics covered:
Avoiding Pitfalls in the RFP Process Structuring Pricing to Respond to Change Service Level Agreements Special Issues in Quéébec
Speakers:
Lisa K. Abe John P. Beardwood Karam Bayrakal Stephane Gilker
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