Outsourcing and Offshore Group

At a glance: The Outsourcing & Offshore Group represents 365 members from the wider outsourcing and offshore vendor communities, including the suppliers of outsourced solutions and services, software companies offering offshore services to the UK market, consultants, advisors and intermediaries.

Chair Gavin Bowden-Hall SSAPS Ltd Biography

Vice Chair Richard Sykes Sole Partner, 'Dr Richard Sykes' Biography

Meeting dates

• 26/06/2012 - Outsourcing and Offshore Group/IAOP conference: Innovation in Outsourcing

Focus: Promoting informed analysis and debate, the group draws on the breadth of experience across its membership and ultimately works to improve effectiveness of all members. It presents networking opportunities, education and market intelligence to companies interested in outsourcing, offshore and the global trade in services.

Latest publication:

A new decade, a new outsourcing challenge

This paper challenges the established view that IT has to be a capital and people intensive industry. In this new decade, business survival and performance will be driven by business leaders demanding: agile technology, fast procurement, speedy delivery, opex-funded transformational initiatives that payback within the financial year and the delivery of value deep into their business' frontline. CIOs and board level decision makers need to take a fresh look at their existing and future outsourcing contracts and to contract differently. Re-negotiating existing long-term contracts are an imperative if businesses are not to be locked-in. I hope you find the content to be insightful, thought provoking and a catalyst for you to seriously explore and evaluate the possibilities set out in this document.

Key focus areas:

• Producing industry comment and obtaining recognition as an independent advisory group
• Lobbying the wider stakeholder community
• Producing information and guidance for members
• Ensuring members are key opinion formers in the outsourcing and offshore marketplace, and working to publicise their position on key issues and produce opinion papers

Current activities

• Intellect's Offshore Futures Report - the most detailed assessment to date of the direction of offshoring over the next five years
• Product Development Outsourcing Seminar, 24 February 2009

The group is also looking to run sessions on the following topics:

• The impact of the recession on outsourcing and offshoring
• Offshoring and the public sector
• Diversity and equality in outsourcing - what responsibility to outsourcers have to invest in the communities they outsource to?
• The impact of Indian companies as significant players in the UK market

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