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Unprecedented changes are under way in how business identifies, sources, and manages the technologies that drive innovation, growth, and competitive advantage. IT drives increased efficiency and improved value to the business through the adoption of Lean practices. The business is taking increased ownership of IT-dependent innovation. Employees no longer wait for sourcing to procure the tools that they need to connect with others. And new vendors, changing service delivery models, and rising business risks are changing the way that vendor relationships need to be managed.

THE NEW IMPERATIVE FOR SOURCING AND VENDOR MANAGEMENT (SVM) PROFESSIONALS

Enabling business, IT, and end users to harness the value from these trends requires that SVM pros embrace and drive change within their organizations. In addition to managing sourcing events and existing vendors, SVM professionals must support the rapid innovation that is taking place within IT and the business while also reducing risk. This includes empowering employees with self-provisioned technologies, sustaining competitive advantage by continuously improving delivery models, and creating differentiation through innovative relationships with their suppliers. SVM pros must embrace a new set of skills and commit to getting ahead of technology and market innovations to ensure that their organizations achieve business value from these changes.

This Forum will arm you with the knowledge, insight, and practices that you need to:

• Empower the business. Learn how to empower employees and embrace self-provisioned technologies like SaaS and social media.
• Drive innovation. Explore how to take your firm to the next level of innovation through next-generation vendor governance models like multisourcing.
• Sustain competitive advantage. See how leading organizations continue to drive increased value from their suppliers through new service delivery models.

Come to Forrester’s Sourcing & Vendor Management Forum 2010 and learn the services, sourcing, and vendor strategies that will enable your company to use sourcing and vendor management as a strategic advantage for your company. Become an important value creator for your firm and enhance your ability to collaborate with senior executives on the emerging strategies and technologies that will ensure your firm’s continued success.

Who Should Attend?

• Enterprise executives who must outperform at a sourcing level to ensure their firm’s success.
• Sourcing executives who need to create sourcing strategies that drive business results.
• CIOs and senior IT managers who need to make critical innovation-driven sourcing and vendor management decisions.
• Procurement executives who execute sourcing strategies that must balance risk, cost, and business value.
• IT services managers looking to optimize their spend, governance practices, and geographic footprint.
• Vendor management professionals who are responsible for ensuring that sourcing relationships deliver the business results promised.

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Why Attend?

ACTIONABLE ADVICE — TAILORED TO YOUR ROLE

Forrester’s Sourcing & Vendor Management Forum 2010 will consist of four tracks designed to make you more successful in your role:

• Empower with emerging technologies and services. This track will answer how to prepare for the changing workforce, drive new sourcing strategies to take advantage of telecom innovations, and drive the adoption of social media tools for your enterprise
• Innovate with vendor management. This track will help you assess the maturity and value of your sourcing and vendor management group, explain how to make multisourcing work to drive greater innovation from your providers, and how to effectively govern large implementation projects to ensure business success.
• Sustain advantage through new service delivery models. This track will answer how to structure outsourcing relationships to allow for innovation, how you can take advantage of new global delivery trends, and the implications of cloud-based IT outsourcing.
• Vendor track — future of services. This track, geared toward our vendor participants, will answer what the future holds for the IT services business, and the new IT economics that will change services business models.

The SVM Forum will continue to deliver the mini-workshop style track sessions that were so popular last year. These “action sessions” are longer and more interactive to help you develop the immediate tactics and steps you can implement when you leave the conference and get back to your office.

THE FORRESTER EVENT DIFFERENCE

• The quality of the Forrester keynotes — Presentations are backed by thousands of interviews with technology leaders, business executives, and vendors.
• Exclusive audiences — Forrester Forum attendees include sourcing executives from the highest organizational levels.
• Integration of organizational, technological, and business issues — Forrester Forums provide a comprehensive understanding of the challenges ahead and how your company can overcome them.
• One-On-One Meetings with Forrester analysts — You can speak privately with Forrester analysts about winning sourcing strategies, vendor management best practices, supplier governance approaches, and the future of IT services.