Having achieved offshoring maturity in IT and product development, companies are now leveraging their learnings and expanding steadily in the Shared Services space.
Organizations today, in order to gain cost advantages, enhance scalability and leverage burgeoning talent in global locations are offshoring critical functions in Shared Services such as F&A, HR, Procurement, Sales & Marketing, Services and Support. Companies like Oracle, SAP, HP, AMD, Microsoft, Symantec, Honeywell, Agilent, McAfee etc. have already seen success.
To assist companies plan and optimize their Shared Services initiatives, we have defined the following agenda to discuss the changing global trends in the Shared Services space. Having achieved offshoring maturity in IT and product development, companies are now leveraging their learnings and expanding steadily in the Shared Services space.
Target Audience: Senior executive's from Enterprise Companies
| Venue |
Time |
Agenda |
September 29th, 2009
@
Hilton (Santa Clara CA)
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9:30 AM to 10:00 AM |
Registration |
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
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'Shared Services Organization Model' |
| The Shared Services operations of large MNCs extends advantages of branding by giving organization-wide benefits like cost, talent, process improvement, service delivery etc. Thus it is pivotal for firms to design a strategic model to organize their Shared Services activities. A model that can combine multiple cross functions affords distinct financial advantages, and further adds to the benefits of building functional centers of excellence such as F&A, HRO etc. In this discussion, we will examine the benefits that can be drawn by combining several functional streams into an overarching Shared Service Center of Excellence. |
| 11:00 AM to 11:15 AM |
Tea Break |
11:15 AM to 12:30 PM
|
'HRO Process Costing' |
| This discussion will delve into the outsourcing models currently being used for HRO services and the associated advantages and disadvantages of each of these models. In addition, it will focus on attempting to break down the individual components of the HR Operations to better understand the impact, implications and best practices pertaining to each parameter |
| 12:30 PM onwards |
Lunch |
The event participation is open only to Senior Executives ( Directors, Sr. Directors, VP, SVP & C level executives) from Product companies