IAOP Partners with California State University Fullerton Business Center to Advance Industry and Certify Outsourcing Professionals

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. Dec. 3, 2009 – The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals^® (IAOP^®) is partnering with California State University Fullerton (CSUF) to collectively advance the industry and certify outsourcing professionals.

The association has entered an academic alliance partnership with CSUF’s Mihaylo College of Business and Economics – Institute for Research and Education in Outsourcing (IREO) and Center for the Study of Emerging Markets (CSEM) to share research, best practices and thought leadership to promote the outsourcing and offshoring industry and profession.

The college also has become the first institution to license IAOP’s Certified Outsourcing Professional^® Master Class training program and Governance training workshop.

The licensing agreement will allow CSUF to offer the comprehensive COP training that covers the end-to-end process of outsourcing, enabling participants to earn half the points needed for professional certification, as well as to receive additional credit for taking the Governance workshop.  

“This new alliance will make the highest quality of outsourcing training available to greater numbers of professionals and continue to build the ranks of COPs practicing in the field,” said IAOP Chairman Michael Corbett.

Under the academic alliance agreement, IAOP and its members can participate in research studies developed by CSUF, and the university will have the opportunity to speak at the association’s conferences, among other benefits.

“By partnering with leading universities and business centers like CSUF, IAOP continues to develop academic-based best standards that advance the industry and outsourcing as a profession,” Corbett said.

Mihaylo College of Business and Economics’ IREO and CSEM were established to promote the flow of global information and technology between academia and business.

“Our research has shown a dramatic evolution in the various forms of outsourcing offshore from the traditional manufacturing processes to the more innovative legal process outsourcing,” said the center’s Director Joseph Greco. “We look forward to working with IAOP to accelerate our joint research and to disseminate the results to the association’s membership, as well as offering the COP training and Governance workshop.”

IAOP’s other academic partners include Duke C.I.B.E.R. Fuqua School of Business Offshoring Research Network, Carnegie Mellon University IT Services Qualification Center (ITSqc) and Syracuse University Outsourcing Professional Institute (OPI).

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