Sourcing & Vendor Management Forum EMEA 2011
Following the Miami event (Nov 7-8), we will join our colleagues from the i-Procure headquarters on the Forrester’s Sourcing & Vendor Management Forum EMEA 2011 event in London (Nov 30 – Dec 1).
The program
Some of the topics we will dig into:
The New Sourcing Imperative: Aligning With The Business To Transform Your Strategic Value
Stephanie Moore, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Sourcing and Vendor Management: Ignite Growth And Deliver Value – Always
Maureen McKinney, Director, Strategic Partner Management, Nike
Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing
Kate Vitasek, Author, Vested Outsourcing
How The Changing Tech Landscape Creates Opportunities For Sourcing And Vendor Management
Duncan Jones, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
IT Sourcing & Vendor Management: An Accelerator For AXA Transformation
Olivier Lefaivre, Head of IT Sourcing and Vendor Management, AXA Group Information Systems
Enabling Rapid, Global Business Expansion Through SVM
Jim Nanton, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Hanesbrands
Action sessions
We are also planning on participating in some of the workshop sessions:
- Setting Innovative Sourcing Strategies
- Creating Best-Practice Unified Communications Strategies Within Distributed Organizations
- Hardware Sourcing Strategy In An Age Of Mobility
- Multisourcing Redefined: Exploring The New Dynamics Of Coordinated Services Relationships
- Preparing For New Sourcing Execution Models
- Negotiating Cloud Pricing And Contracts
- Evaluating The Primary Pricing Models In Infrastructure Service Market Sourcing
- Negotiating With Leverage In The New Software Landscape
- Transforming Vendor Management
- From Vendor Performance To Vendor Viability
- Generating Innovation From Offshore Vendors Through Strategic Vendor Management
- Creating Alignment Between Procurement And Vendor Management
Speakers
When coming to London we are looking forward to listening to, amongst others;
Ian Dalby, Director Of ICT, Ministry Of Justice
Ian Dalby works at the Ministry of Justice, which is one of the largest UK government departments, with around 95,000 employees and a budget of approximately £9billion. Prior to this, Mr. Dalby was the European M&A IT Manager for Ford Motor Company, a commercial IT SRM within the financial services sector, and he has also worked as an enterprise strategy consultant for the Microsoft Services Group. Mr. Dalby has experience from the demand side and supply side of major IT operations, and has set up and managed vendor management teams — as well as acting in an advisory and consulting capacity for other companies in this area.
Olivier Lefaivre, Head Of IT Sourcing and Vendor Management, AXA Group Information Systems
Olivier Lefaivre graduated from ESSEC Business School in 1989. He then spent 5 years with Andersen Consulting as a Consultant in IT and business processes. Mr. Lefaivre then joined the French Committee for the Organisation of the 1998 Football World Cup as Deputy Director for IT and Event Management. At the end of 1998, Mr. Lefaivre started at Alcatel-Lucent as Sales Director for a Software Product Line, and, over the next nine years, took various management positions in sales and procurement. He then joined AXA Group Procurement in September 2007 as Process & Tools Vice President, moving to AXA Group Information Systems in 2009 to take his current position as Head of IT Sourcing and Vendor Management.
Maureen McKinney, Director, Strategic Partner Management, NIKE
Maureen McKinney is the Vendor Management Director for Nike, Inc. She is responsible for vendor management of IT providers for professional service, contract labor, and hardware and software categories. Her responsibilities include negotiation strategies, market intelligence, governance and policy adherence, and vendor management best practices. Ms. McKinney has 25 years of experience in the international IT marketplace.
Jim Nanton, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Hanesbrands
Jim Nanton has global responsibility for the firm’s information technology. He has over 30 years of information technology experience in banking and manufacturing. Before joining Hanesbrands, Mr. Nanton was a Systems Vice President at Citicorp in New York. He has an MS degree in Management of Technology from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and graduated summa cum laude from Iona College.
Kate Vitasek, Author, Vested Outsourcing
Kate Vitasek is an internationally recognized innovator in the practice of supply chain management and outsourcing. Ms. Vitasek is a faculty member at the University of Tennessee’s Center for Executive Education and is the author of the popular book Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing.
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