World Procurement Excellence Summit | Conference

September 27, 2023

Conference

World procurement excellence summit

September 27, 2023

David Rickard, Partner at Everest Group, will be speaking at the World Procurement Excellence Summit. His will discuss how sourcing teams should adapt to emerging technology trends:

The influence of emerging technologies on an organization’s run, operate, and change mandates
The impact of emerging technologies at varied adoption stages on sourcing dynamics and strategy
How to evolve category strategies to support the technology adoption cycle
How to align supplier segmentation and portfolio strategy to the fast-evolving supplier landscape

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David Rickard

Partner, Everest Group

Clinton Global Initiative 2023

September 18, 2023

In-Person event

CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE | 2023

September 18-19, 2023

Everest Group’s Eric Simonson, Managing Partner, and Rita N. Soni, Principal Analyst for Impact Sourcing and Sustainability, will attend the Clinton Global Initiative 2023 meeting on September 18-19 in New York City. This year’s focus is what it takes to keep going.

Last year, Everest Group pledged to dramatically increase the impact sourcing workforce – connecting hundreds of thousands of marginalized individuals to new jobs – by providing research and enablement tools, sharing best practices, and engaging enterprises, service providers, governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in collaborative efforts.

Everest Group’s Commitment to Action is to grow the impact sourcing market to half a million in three years. As the CGI community knows, making and keeping commitments isn’t easy. Despite this, we know the antidote is as simple as it is true – we must keep going.

Eric and Rita will join colleagues and global stakeholders at the event to discuss impact sourcing, the potential it provides to companies and underserved communities around the world, and initiatives to help companies incorporate impact sourcing into their business models.

Learn more about Everest Group’s Commitment to Action.

Eric Simonson

Managing Partner

Rita N. Soni

Principal Analyst

ProcureCon IT Sourcing Event 2023

June 26, 2023

EVENT

ProcureCon IT Sourcing 2023

June 26 - 27, 2023 |

Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA

Everest Group is a proud sponsor of ProcureCon IT Sourcing, taking place from June 26 – 27, 2023, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA. Everest Group Partners Amy Fong and Achint Arora will be hosting a Tech Negotiators Workshops at the event titled IT Services – What’s Working in 2023.

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For those sourcing global services, the last few years have been a roller coaster, with talent shortages leading to previously unheard-of mid-contract cost increase requests. Join Everest Group analysts and your peers to talk about how buyers are successfully managing costs, talent, and locations decisions in IT services. We’ll discuss the following questions, plus your own challenges:

What is going on with attrition and retention at leading service providers?
Have price increases leveled out? Which roles still demand a premium?
Which five actions can enterprises take to achieve better cost optimization in a changing market?
Should we consider new locations onshore, nearshore, or offshore?
What strategies should we be considering to support our organization’s digital transformation initiatives?

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Hosted by:

Amy Fong, Partner, Sourcing and Vendor Management, Everest Group
Achint Arora, Partner, Pricing Assurance, Everest Group
Christina McLaughlin, Director, Category Strategy – Professional Services, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Where
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA

Speakers

Amy Fong

Partner, Sourcing and Vendor Management, Everest Group

Achint Arora

Partner, Pricing Assurance, Everest Group

Impact Sourcing | Athena Alliance | Event

May 15, 2023

WEBINAR

Impact sourcing | Athena Alliance

May 25, 2023

9:00 AM PT | 12 PM ET

Talent, be it in-house or with your sourcing partners, has become complex in 2023. Global services, especially, are always on the lookout for talent sources that are highly engaged and stable, ensuring high-quality work and low attrition. Impact Sourcing, or hiring skilled and motivated talent from disadvantaged groups around the world, is proving to be a solution – helping forward-thinking organizations tap into new talent pools, fill roles, create pipelines, and realize substantial business benefits.

Everest Group has designed a panel for Athena Alliance leaders and decision-makers. CXOs and several founders will share real-world lessons on creating an inclusive workforce focusing on marginalized communities and the business case to persuade the skeptics. All have a particular focus on women – as UN Women calls it – Gender Responsive Procurement. You will want to engage all these companies because of how they are marrying quality global services and sustainability, the ultimate of “doing good while doing well.”

Catch Rita Soni, Principal Analyst for Impact Sourcing and Sustainability at Everest Group, as she joins the conversation at this event.

Rita Soni

Principal Analyst for Impact Sourcing and Sustainability, Everest Group

Wendy Gonzalez

CEO, Sama Sama

Isabelle Mashola

CEO & Co-founder, Isahit

Balaji Ganapathy

Global Head, CSR, Chief Social Responsibility Officer, Tata Consultancy Services

Coco Brown

CEO, Athena Alliance

Developing a Transformation Strategy that Optimises your Digital Investments | Webinar

April 25, 2023

WEBINAR

Developing a transformation strategy that optimises your digital investments

25 April, 2023

8:00 AM PT | 4 PM BST

Catch Everest Group’s Nitish Mittal in this episode of DigitalTransformationTalk who will discuss issues that affect your industry including:

Enhancing your human-centric digital transformation through robust internal communication
Customising innovation frameworks to best leverage emerging technologies
Harnessing distributed innovation to capture economic value in open ecosystems

Speakers

Nitish Mittal

Partner, Technology, Everest Group

Kevin Craine

Host, Digital Transformation Talk

Fiona Delaney

Chair, Blockchain Ireland - Startups Group

Tim Bottke

Partner - Telecoms, Media & Entertainment Leader, Deloitte

Are you Considering Agile Sourcing? | Webinar

April 25, 2023

WEBINAR

Are you considering agile sourcing?

April 25, 2023

4:30 AM EST | 9:30 AM BST

Join Everest Group Partner, David Rickard, on the 25th April at 09:30AM – 11:00AM in this virtual event as the panel looks at examples of those who have successfully implemented agile sourcing and the challenges they have faced along the way.

Agile sourcing is a strategy that prioritises flexibility, speed, and collaboration between the sourcing team and supplier. It is something all procurement and sourcing professionals are aware of as a concept and many claim to understand to a greater or lesser degree. But how many know the right time and place to implement it?

To implement an agile sourcing strategy, companies should focus on developing the skills of their sourcing team, investing in technology that supports collaboration and real-time communication, and establishing clear processes and guidelines. First and foremost it’s important to understand the key fundamentals of agile sourcing and then to pick the right projects to take down this path.

David Rickard

Partner, Everest Group

Rosalyn Olney

Partner, Source-Re

Sandrine Trinh

Senior Director, R&D, Galapagos

Angela Wyatt

Consulting Director, Horizon Seven

SIG Procurement Technology Summit 2023

April 16, 2023

EVENT

SIG PROCUREMENT TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT 2023: Controlling the Sprawl: A Template for Managing Your IT Tail

April 16-19, 2023

Everest Group is a proud sponsor of SIG’s 2023 Procurement Technology Summit, taking place from April 16 – 19, 2023, at the Omni Amelia Island Resort in Amelia Island, FL.

Everest Group Partners Jimit Arora and Amy Fong will be presenting at the event in a topic-based roundtable discussion titled, Controlling the Sprawl: A Template for Managing Your IT Tail.

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As organizations go deeper into digital transformation, the portfolio of IT suppliers has become broader. Sourcing often faces the challenge of rationalizing the supply base to address non-efficient tail spend. Collaboration with IT is critical, and it helps to have a structured approach at the start. In this interactive roundtable, you will gain insights and participate in a discussion on taming the IT tail.

Questions to consider during this roundtable discussion include:

How can sourcing articulate the value of portfolio rationalization with stakeholders?
Which frameworks work best for analyzing and guiding decisions on IT categories?
When should we let go of the traditional sourcing lever of “volume consolidation” and look for rational ways to expand the portfolio?

You will learn:

How to define and promote the benefits and drawbacks of portfolio rationalization
How a rationalized supplier portfolio can be impacted by changing market trends
How to build a framework to guide stakeholders in evaluating IT tail spend
Strategies to turn legal from the “deal preventor” to the “business enabler”

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Where

Omni Amelia Island Resort, Amelia Island, FL

Speakers

Jimit Arora

Partner

Amy Fong

Partner

Finance Shared Services to Global Business Services: A Journey Worth Taking? | Roundtable

March 1, 2023

EVENT

Finance Shared Services to Global Business Services: A Journey Worth Taking? | Roundtable

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) report released in September 2022, Finance Shared Services to Global Business Services: A Journey Worth Taking? evaluated the relative maturity of Finance Shared Services (FSS) organisations compared to Global Business Services (GBS), across the dimensions of people, process, and technology. The results of the analysis, based on the responses of over 800 organisations, run counter to the commonly held belief that GBS, rather than FSS models, should be the destination of leading organisations. The findings consider the current challenges as well as prevailing opportunities for driving future success.

ACCA, PwC, and Everest Group, along with leaders of other leading enterprise operations, will debate the merits, opportunities, and challenges of moving from a finance-focused business services organisation to a multi-functional, integrated operation at a roundtable on Wednesday, 1 March 2023 in London.

This is an invite-only event. If you are interested in joining roundtable discussions, contact Susan Sehmi.

Where

London

Speakers

Rohitashwa Aggarwal

Partner - Global Business Sourcing Lead, Europe, Everest Group

Deborah Kops

Principal, Sourcing Change

Eric Simonson

Managing Partner - Research, Everest Group

NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum 2023

February 27, 2023

EVENT

NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum 2023: Winning on CX with a Whole New World of Technology

Monday, Feb 27, 2023 | 12:25pm - 12:55pm

Everest Group CEO, Peter Bendor-Samuel, will speak virtually at the NASSCOM Technology and Leadership Forum 2023 at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, India, on February 27, in his session titled, Winning on CX with a Whole New World of Technology.

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The evolving technology landscape is reshaping industries, ushering in a new era of customer experience (CX). Watch Peter’s session live at the event to learn how the convergence of technologies is creating a new world for customers, keeping human centricity at its core. The speakers will also discuss new technologies that drive a people + tech convergence, such as the metaverse, and explore how businesses can find opportunities to create value in these emerging technologies.

Attendees can also catch Everest Group colleagues Chirajeet Sengupta, Rajesh Ranjan, Yugal Joshi, Ronak Doshi, Akshat Vaid, Aveen Shetty, Ashish Sehdev, and Rita Soni at the event.

Where:
Grand Hyatt, Mumbai

Speaker

Peter Bendor-Samuel

CEO

Avoid Over-paying for Services as the Talent Crisis Stabilises | Event

January 23, 2023

EVENT

Avoid Over-paying for Services as the Talent Crisis Stabilises

February 28, 2023

The past few years have witnessed a huge talent crunch, leading to high wage inflation, attrition, and upward pressure on pricing. As we enter 2023, attrition has started to cool off, and there are indicators pointing to a likely economic slowdown.

Join Everest Group at the eWorld Procurement & Supply Summit on February 28 as Julian Herbert, VP, Information Products, and Ricky Sundrani, Partner, Pricing Assurance, discuss how to avoid overpaying for outsourcing services in 2023.

Participants will learn:

How the economic environment is expected to impact outsourced deal pricing through 2023
What enterprises can do to ensure their contracts remain competitive in the current environment
How to pre-emptively plan for risks, and what to watch for

Where

eWorld Procurement & Supply

Grand Connaught Rooms, London

Speakers

Julian Herbert

Vice President, Information Products

Ricky Sundrani

Partner, Pricing Assurance

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