Call for Papers

 
The 2008 Outsourcing World Summit®, IAOP’s annual event, is designed for experienced executives seeking the very latest insights.  Papers should provide specific actionable solutions to current challenges faced by experienced professionals. Sessions should not simply demonstrate the idea of outsourcing, its overall implementation, or merely provide a list of potential problems to be avoided.

The theme for this 11^th edition of The Summit is Built for Change:  Reconceptualizing the Corporation in an Era of Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Globalization.  During this event, we will examine outsourcing in all its dimensions of change, including:           

•  How do you design a new corporation, process, or business unit with a built-in capacity for change through outsourcing, offshoring, and globalization?

•  How do you blend current organizational developments, like shared services and web-enabled self-service, with emerging models like crowdsourcing, social networks, and user-centered innovation?

•  What are the new roles for human resources, organizational development, and information technology departments needed to turn the capacity for change into a competitive differentiator?

•What can be learned from the innovative business models being developed by companies outside the traditional U.S. and Western Europe corporate enclaves?

Program tracks for The 2008 Outsourcing World Summit consist of six educational tracks, each made up of multiple 50-minute sessions, providing the opportunity to further explore the theme of the Summit and offering views from all different perspectives.  The selection of tracks also reflects the feedback from the past Summits and the attendee survey conducted after the most recent Summit. 

Each of the tracks will have presentations from noted speakers and thought leaders and will be a balanced view from customer, provider and advisor’s points of view.  Each track will also feature special presentations that directly highlight a single dimension of the overall Summit theme.

The tracks are: 

1.  Top Functions

Presentations to include diverse functions (including traditional BPO/IT, engineering and manufacturing).  Presentations need to deal with experiences and considerations for suitability for each function

2.  Top Industries
 

Presentations in this track will address unique outsourcing opportunities that are specifically suitable to an industry (e.g. drug testing for pharmaceutical industry or airframe design modeling for aerospace or equity research analysis for Financial Services)

3.  Customer Experiences

By customers for customers:  customer executives share their experiences (good and lessons learned) for various life cycle aspects of outsourcing. Each of the presentations will address different aspects of outsourcing – strategy, implementation, transition, governance and reevaluation.

4.  Provider Experiences
 

By providers for providers:  leading providers share their “best practices” in the field of outsourcing.  Each of the presentations, again should address different aspects of the outsourcing life cycle.  Presentations by “industry observers” who track provider landscape may also be included in this track.

5.  Impact of Change

This, a new track for OWS, will have presentations from experienced customers, providers and advisors and will address the impact of outsourcing and how it is managed (and should be managed) through organizations.  It will also address how organizations can manage change by preparing for outsourcing and then, managing the “new shape of business” post outsourcing.

6.  “XXX sourcing”

Another new track for OWS will address the options, trends and near the horizon activities that have morphed from traditional outsourcing – insourcing, shared services, reverse-sourcing (bringing work onshore), crowdsourcing.  Presenters will discuss how corporations are dealing with these topics and how they touch upon (or will touch upon) the activities of IAOP.

You do not need to be an IAOP member to submit a proposal.  However, although all sessions are selected first and foremost for their thought-leadership and actionable value, IAOP Corporate Members and then Professional Members receive priority consideration. 

Due to the volume of responses, the Program Committee does not accept submissions from service providers that are not IAOP corporate members.  However, providers are encouraged to pass this invitation along to customers and/or advisors with whom they work.  Click here to see if your company is an IAOP Corporate Member. 

The deadline for submissions is July 2, 2007. Please direct any questions to IAOP’s member services director, Beryl Sorensen, at beryl.sorensen@outsourcingprofessional.org .  You will be notified by July 31^st  if your proposal has been selected.  Due to the sheer number of submissions, only accepted proposals will be acknowledged.

All presenters are invited to an exclusive speakers’ reception at the Summit on Sunday evening, February 17, 2008.