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Event Overview

As a professional who influences the sourcing and vendor management strategy at your firm, you face the challenge of achieving measurable financial success in a rapidly changing global delivery environment. At Forrester's Services and Sourcing Forum 2007, you'll gain the knowledge you need to drive improved business performance through strategic sourcing. Learn how to:

• Assess business requirements, existing capabilities, and future needs to maximize sourcing value.
• Mitigate risk by implementing sourcing deal governance.
• Build effective VMOs and evaluate ongoing vendor performance.

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This Forum will consider business performance across a wider spectrum than you may expect, including not just financial metrics, but intangibles like customer satisfaction and risk mitigation. We'll also share a host of best practices that enable you to unlock business value through strategic sourcing ¿ like negotiating with suppliers for mutual success, placing the right bets in a rapidly changing global delivery environment, and adjusting vendor management practices to reflect the industrialization of IT services.

Services And Sourcing Forum 2007 aims to help decision-makers like you strengthen your approach to sourcing, and to learn best practices that will drive bottom line results. This event is designed primarily for the sourcing and vendor management executive, but will be equally relevant chief information officers, procurement executives, and any decision-maker who affects the funding and sourcing of technology investments.

Who Should Attend?

• Enterprise executives who drive technology investments and sourcing decisions
• Sourcing strategy executives
• CIOs and senior IT managers
• IT procurement executives
• Vendor management professionals

Why Attend?

• One-on-one meetings with Forrester analysts.
• Compelling keynote addresses from today's leading executives and IT leaders.
• Relevant breakout sessions with analysts.
• Peer networking sessions with attendees.
• Best practices and timely case studies from senior IT executives.
• Technology solutions from leading technology vendors.