21 November 2013 | Panel Discussion Event | Avoiding the Midnight Shift: Effective Project outsourcing strategies so you can sleep at night
Does your organization require certain project work to be outsourced? Or your team lacks the expertise to deliver the total project? Or is it the schedule or cost that forces you to go for outsourcing? Or perhaps, you have to outsource project work for a reason very unique to your environment. But rest assured; you are not alone in your concerns and challenges when it comes to outsourcing.
Global outsourcing is in on strong growth path and already worth some US$ 480 billion according to some research. Most of this funding is pouring into projects and the Project Managers are expected to manage these outsourcing deals and deliverables successfully. Project managers have a key role to play in founding, building and maintaining these crucial outsourcing relationships and ensuring that these engagements translate into effective projects deliveries and benefits for the organization.
SPMI organizes this panel discussion led by three experts in the panel. Join this interactive discussion session, share your ideas and learn HOW TO AVOID THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT and have EFFECTIVE PROJECT OUTSOURCING STRATEGIES in place for your projects.
Topics for the session:
- Some of the best practices a project team should adopt to ensure successful outsourcing.
- Building and maintaining effective outsourcing relationships.
- The key challenges and risks in outsourcing projects and how to manage those.
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Date: 21 November 2013, Thursday Time: 7.00pm to 9.00pm, Registration and Buffet Dinner (Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Halal) starts from 6.30pm Location: Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre | 97 Tank Road | Teochew Building | Level 4 | Singapore 238066 SPMI Member: SGD 40.00 PDUs: 2 SPMI Members please log-in to avail members' rate |
SPMI sincerely thanks Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre for sponsoring the venue
About the Panelists
CHIN Kok Soon
Kok Soon has 33 years of Technology experience in a broad range of Management and Technical (infrastructure, applications) roles, in Financial Services, Manufacturing and Technology Services industries. He has worked in Singapore, Australia and Malaysia.
Kok Soon was in DBS Group for 24 years, from 1983. He was SVP in its Technology & Operations group. His last role in DBS was managing its portfolio of Technology and BPO outsourcing arrangements. He was intimately involved in DBS’s regionalization drive, from 1999, in Asean, Greater China and India.
DBS entered into a landmark S$1.2b, 10-year, regional Strategic Outsourcing (SO) relationship with IBM in Dec 2002, covering Infrastructure and Applications Management. Kok Soon was intimately involved in the SO life-cycle, from pre-contract RFI/RFP, Transition, Transformation through on-going Governance. Specifically, he was the Group Transition Manager in 2003, and after the Transition, he was the focal point Vendor Manager for the SO relationship. He was a member of the winning team for the 2004 MIS Innovations Award in SO.
Kok Soon joined IBM in 2007. He was initially focusing on the engagement of complex SO deals in Asean and Greater China, in various industry sectors. As Project Executive (PE), he has managed accounts in Airlines, Government, Manufacturing, Utilities and Retail sectors. He is currently the Global Project Executive of a major account.
Kok Soon holds a B.Sc. (Computer Sc.) from Monash University, Australia. His interests include scuba diving, yachting, power-boating, and distance running.
Dhanasekhar Damodaram
Director - Asia Consumer Services Delivery
Dhana has 21 years of IT industry experience and is currently the Head of Citi Asia Pacific(AP) Consumer Services Delivery. He is responsible for quality of services provided to the consumer business and covers end-to-end service quality including application, infrastructure and third party components, continuity of business, infrastructure cost, demand optimization including driving programs to optimize the end-to-end IT cost to business by code optimization, consolidation, re-platforming, identifying cost effective solution, review business volumetrics and consumption drivers, migrate/retire legacy application & infrastructure and quality of project execution and execution of major transformation projects.
Prior to this, he was the head of BHP Billiton Global service delivery team as Director and Senior Global DPE comprising of 900+ team members spread across Singapore, India, Australia, USA, Chile, UK and Canada.
Dhana also held Senior leadership responsibilities in Asean/South Asia for Service Management, Transition and Project Management from 2004 to 2006. Prior to 2004, he was a Senior Manager in IBM Global Services specializing in Service Delivery and Transition Integration management.
Mark Jamieson
Mark Jamieson was born and raised in New Zealand, developed his career in Europe, returned back to New Zealand, ran a number of substantial projects in Australia and Asia, and is now based in Singapore.
Having initially gained a degree in Psychology, and then an MBA from Cass Business School, Mark embarked upon a career in senior management that has taken him across the world working across multiple cultures and industries. Mark has managed teams of hundreds, tens, ones and zero.
He has worked primarily with Multi National Corporations, including IBM, Ernst & Young, IBM (again), Oracle, EDS and IBM (yet again!).
For the past 14 years all of his projects have had a substantial outsourced component. On some occasions, Mark’s organisation was the outsourced provider, and outsourced again key application development tasks to offshore teams.
Mark is in demand as a professional speaker and is the author of the upcoming book “It’s Just Your Thinking: Being Mindful In The Business Environment”. This examines the critical role of mindset in project and business success.
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