IAOP PULSEcast

Moderator: Jon Browning, CEO, Global Mentorship Initiative Panelists: Maryana Iskander, CEO, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator; Dan Lang, Senior Vice Preseident, Sutherland; Stacie Herring, VP, Consumer Services Experience, Intuit 

Impact Sourcing not only presents enormous opportunity for professional advancement of marginalized communities through training and steady, fair-wage employment but it is also a business practice that, when done right, maximizes business outcomes. This session will feature panelists from the organizations blazing the trail in this space as well as personal stories from struggle and adversity to success through ingenuity, drive, and dedication. Join us to hear how impact sourcing is transforming business for the better and learn where to start at your organization.

The COVID-19 pandemic is more than just a health crisis; its ripple effect is impacting all of us and our work. Though there is no real playbook—and no predicting the future—at this pivotal moment, there are clear choices to make. Members of IAOP’s Strategic Advisory Board, representing the key stakeholder groups—buyers, providers and advisors—come together to discuss their experiences, trends and critical factors in an organization’s ability to emerge from the current crisis and push forward into a new era of economic recovery and opportunity.

Moderated by Atul Vashistha, COP, Chairman and Founder, Neo Group & Debi Hamill, CEO, IAOP, panelists include:

Digital brings new, exciting market opportunities that increase service providers relevance. However, the increasing use of automation, AI/ML and cognitive computing are changing the outsourcing core, its people. Digital is not the same game with new rules. It is a new game. While traditional outsourcing responds to five client needs of advisory/decision making, staff augmentation, project-based capacity (short duration), cost-efficiency and gains of scale, these needs can now be filled by the web, robots, pay-as-you-go, AI/ML/ algorithms and the cloud. Join us to understand the new value added by emerging delivery models. Presented by Jan Erik Aase, COP, Principal Analyst and Global Head, ISG Provider Lens and Stanton Jones, Director and Principal Analyst, ISG.

This comes from a popular OWS2.0 session entitled Sourcing for Agile - A Deep Dive into Innovative Sourcing Methods to Drive Value from Agile Development and Still Hold Vendors Accountable for Outcomes, presented by Boris Abezgauz, Partner, PwC Strategy& and Skanda Janakiram, Manager, Strategy, PwC Strategy&.

Maura Hudson, COP, Senior Vice President, Colliers and Michelle Needles, Executive Managing Director, Colliers

Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups, and these biases stem from one’s tendency to organize social worlds by categorizing. Join this highly interactive session where we will address the issue, share examples, learn how to avoid blind spots and create more inclusive thinking.

The  IAOP Governance Chapter is pleased to present Enterprise  Sourcing & Lifecycle Risk Management, featuring John Bree, SVP, Partner, Neo Group; Jennifer Duest,  VP, Corporate Insurance & Global Third-Party Risk Manager; and Marica  Imer, VP, Asc. Director of Finance Administration - Enterprise Sourcing  both with Wellington Management Group.  Moderated by Atul Vashistha,  Chairman and CEO, Neo Group, the panelists discuss the rapidly changing  world of digital convergence and dev/ops, traditional, episodic Risk  Assessments.

Brought to you by IAOP's Women Empowerment, Leadership and Diversity Chapter.

The IAOP SRO Chapter held a webinar August 20, 2019 on The Evolution of Socially Responsible Outsourcing and why it is relevant now more than ever. Socially Responsible Outsourcing (SRO) can trace its origins back 75 years, but integrating SRO concepts and policies today can still be a challenge for BPO buyers and service providers. IAOP’s SRO Chapter presented a panel event to discuss how to implement SRO, why it matters, and examples of how it’s being implemented in today’s largest organizations. Attendees joined representatives from Microsoft, Sprint, Alorica, and others to learn how and why to begin their SRO journey.

IAOP's Voice of the Customer and the Sales/Marketing chapters held a webinar on June 19, 2019 and turned the tables by asking if a customer is a good customer rather than if a supplier is a good supplier. This was a high energy panel discussion between suppliers and customers, where we heard expectations of a Customer Sourcing Executive and Supplier VPs as they engaged in dialogue that will ultimately help the supplier meet expectations with the help.  Moderator: Kyle Andrews, Partner, Pretium Partners; Speakers: Vijay Verma, Executive Vice President, HCL America, Inc, Michael Nacarato, IAOP's Buy-Side Ambassador, and David Althoff, Senior Vice President, Cognizant

Speakers: Michael Nacarato, COP, Transamerica and IAOP’s Buy-Side Ambassador; John Vonesh, Partner, ISG 

In this session excerpt from OWS19, John and Michael discuss the business and regulatory governance challenges impacting insurance companies, and how operational and technology strategies are being refined to meet those challenges. New and disruptive technologies will reshape insurers’ interactions with policy owners and producers. Technology service providers are developing offerings and capabilities for insurers in an increasingly competitive market.