How do you know what applications to fund? What are world-class organizations doing in development and sourcing? How do you measure the value of your outsourcing? Today’s integrated systems are growing more and more complex. Maximizing the value return from these integrated systems while minimizing the cost of modifying, testing and maintaining them is becoming more difficult. Organizations are trying to determine what their overall sourcing strategies should be and what strategic sourcing tools they should be using.

Join other IMF members to share experiences in dealing with these issues.

Presenters and Topics Include:

Tom Barefoot, Senior Vice President and Director of IT Global Sourcing
Wachovia Corporation
Multi-Sourcing: Moving from Managing IT in House to Managing Multiple Suppliers
Tom guided Wachovia from having their entire IT in house to identifying and finding the right outsourcers, the SLA process and how he currently manages their multiple suppliers. Global IT Outsourcing has grown from $1.3 billion back in 2002 to some estimates that had the market at $24.3 billion in 2007. As one of the leaders in Global IT Sourcing, Tom will share some of  the intricacies, challenges and solutions involved in this critical area.

Mike Harty, Director of Customer Capabilities
Harrah's Entertainment
Application Development Framework—Driving Quality Delivery
Mike will review Harrah’s Application Development, Problem Management and Quality Management approaches. These Frameworks provide the basis upon which Harrah’s delivers new business capabilities and supports existing applications and processes. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of these Frameworks as Harrah’s has leveraged international development partners.

Karan Mehra, Executive Director of Global Operation
Verizon
A Holistic Approach to Offshoring: Captive & Third Party
With data protection and Security, corporate responsibility and political visibility becoming increasingly important influences in a company’s offshoring decisions, how does today’s Global PMO assess solutions that address these concerns AND meet increasing time and money constraints faced by their clients? This session aims at providing a real world view of optimal placement of work—what’s core to the business versus bleeding-edge talent.

Jack Lewis, Senior Program Manager
Ceridian
Case Study: Comparing and Contrasting Strategic Sourcing Efforts
Strategic sourcing is an institutional procurement process that continuously improves and re-evaluates the purchasing activities of a company. During this session, Jack will present a case study on two global sourcing strategies applied by two different organizations. You will learn why these organizations selected the approaches they did and how these sourcing efforts compare and contrast. Both strategic plans designed and implemented represent great success, yet could benefit in various ways from one another’s strategy.

Chuck Ellis, Associate Vice President
Canadian Tire Financial Services
Caleb Masland, Managing Director
The Information Management Forum
Live Connect for Attendees
This live IMF Connect will focus on strategies and best practices for organizations of all sizes working to improve their sourcing and offshoring programs. The session will focus on these and other related topics:
• Joint/Co-Sourcing Relationships
• Using Multiple Vendors
• Building Virtual Teams
• Improving Sourced Service Delivery

Member Identified Topics of Interest Include:

 

 

Best Practices for Outsourcing Development
Building the Right Applications for Virtualization
Securing Offshore Resources
Buy vs. Build
Outsourcing
Change Management in a Complex Environment
Programmers: Measuring the Genius Factor
The Defect Effect
Agile Programming
Efficiency and Streamlining
Organization Structure
Trends and Future Technology