Pillsbury Launches SourcingSpeak Blog Highlighting Trends Influencing IT & Outsourcing Decisions

“Outsourcing is less about pure cost and offshoring than it has been in the past. Today, companies expect sourcing to support and complement the business strategy, and enable regulatory compliance. The sourcing assessment requires consideration of where opportunities lie, evaluation of an expanding array of providers’ capabilities and determination of how providers’ and clients’ blended networks and operations square with cross-border regulations,” said San Francisco partner and blog editor Michael Murphy, who handles complex technology transactions and business process outsourcing projects for energy, financial services and technology clients.

Readers can subscribe to SourcingSpeak via RSS and follow posts tagged with key terms including cloud computing, contracting issues, privacy & security, cost optimization and legal developments. Recent posts have examined corporations’ concerns over whether service providers can adequately protect their data, the appeal, and risks, of emerging offshoring destinations such as Latin America, developing appropriate metrics for evaluating infrastructure providers and how the iPad could present compelling cost and productivity benefits for businesses.

“The inherent challenge with sourcing is how to assess all potential risks, opportunities and impacts ahead of a deal – SourcingSpeak explores how transaction basics, disruptive new ideas and changes in a company’s business and regulatory environments affect outsourcing relationships,” added Washington Global Sourcing partner Mario F. Dottori who handles sophisticated international technology transactions for clients, including infrastructure and application development outsourcing. “Our experience, coupled with Pillsbury’s industry reach and broad regulatory and international platform, give us insight into issues likely to weigh heavily on ‘where,’ ‘how’ and ‘why’ suppliers and services are selected. We hope this vantage point gives SourcingSpeak’s readers new ideas to consider.”

Pillsbury Global Sourcing is an integrated practice team of sourcing consultants and top-ranked legal advisors. Providing strategic IT & outsourcing counsel to nearly 30 percent of the Fortune 100, Pillsbury was recently named to International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' "2010 World's Best Outsourcing Advisors,” and is ranked in the highest tier by Chambers Global and Chambers USA for its sourcing capabilities and experience. Pillsbury consultants come from diverse backgrounds and have held leadership positions in a variety of industries. Our sourcing advisors are organized along business functions, leveraging deep domain knowledge and experience across a wide range of areas, including offshoring, and outsourcing business processes, IT, procurement, real estate/facilities and telecommunications. Pillsbury’s integrated approach guides clients through the full outsourcing lifecycle, from strategy formulation and vendor analysis to negotiations and implementation. This unique service model, coupled with Pillsbury’s patented visual methodology, ValueChain, minimizes costs and optimizes value. For more information visit www.sourcingspeak.com.

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