About
Reimagine Sourcing: Align, Innovate and Execute
The 2013 Outsourcing and Strategic Partnership Summit 2013 challenges organizations to rethink their current sourcing approaches with a distinct purpose — align sourcing with business goals, use innovative sourcing to realize those goals, ultimately, execute IT and solutions for greater competitiveness
Disruptive forces (Social, Mobile, Information and Cloud) have created a new imperative for organizations' sourcing strategies to evolve. What does that mean for you? Assessing new products and services, selecting new vendors, adapting evolving delivery options and new pricing models, addressing a host of geographic opportunities and optimizing the vendor ecosystem. CIOs and their sourcing leaders must rethink their approach to providing the optimal sourcing environment to support business needs.
Organizations must rejuvenate their strategies, their tactics and expectations for sourcing — NOW! Failure to exploit new sourcing opportunities will only jeopardize future business performance.
Learn more about key takeaways and ROI you'll gain by attending a Gartner Summit Event
Key Benefits
A dynamic learning forum, featuring face-to-face engagement with Gartner analysts at workshops, tutorials, roundtables, and more.
- Develop sourcing strategies that align with and deliver business value
- Capitalize on new sourcing best practices and contracting options
- Develop a more creative, dynamic and strategic approach to sourcing decisions
- Capitalize on emerging technologies and new delivery models "powered by the cloud"
- Embed new cloud suppliers in your ecosystem of traditional suppliers
- Manage provider relationships effectively and monitor/manage their performance
- Establish flexibility in your services and your relationships with providers
- Identify new service providers to fulfil key initiatives
Who Should Attend
Senior business and IT professionals including:
- CIOs, COOs, CFOs
- Chief Sourcing Officers, Heads of Outsourcing
- Sourcing Managers
- Vendor Managers
- Contract Managers
- Procurement Managers
- Business Unit Managers
- Global Delivery Managers, Global Sourcing Managers
Analyst Access
World's Top Industry Experts
Gartner's global research community of 750 analysts engages in nearly 300,000 one-to-one client interactions each year. There are several ways to interact with an analyst at the event, including:
- Gartner Analyst Sessions: Listen to insightful and actionable advice direct from a subject matter expert, with allotted time for Q&A.
- Gartner Analyst One-on-One Meetings: Private meetings that explore your personal IT issues and challenges.
- Analyst-User Roundtables: Small group format moderated by a Gartner analyst where you and your peers can share insights, challenges and concerns related to today's hottest topics.
Peer Networking
Real World Experience
Hundreds of senior business and IT leaders will convene to interact and share their knowledge and objectives. You can network with your peers at several informal networking sessions, including:
- End-User Case Studies: Learn about recent implementations firsthand, with an opportunity for Q&A with the IT and business executives leading the initiatives.
- Workshops: Presented by Gartner or guest experts, these intimate workshops provide an opportunity to drill down on specific "how to" topics in an extended, small group environment.
- Hospitality Suites: Hosted by Premier and Platinum sponsors, these evening theme receptions are ideal for informal networking.
Exhibitor Access
Discover. Compare. Evaluate.
Gartner conferences bring together the world's leading solution providers so you can gain a comprehensive understanding of what technologies are available, which are right for you, and how they shape up against the competition. Exhibitor access opportunities include:
- Solution Provider Sessions: Solution providers and their customers provide a look into how the products work in the real world.
- Face-to-Face Sponsor Meetings: Private, prearranged 30-minute meetings that will advance your projects and relationships, regardless of where you are in the buying cycle.
Team Discount
Bring your team to Gartner Outsourcing & Strategic Partnerships Summit to maximize, strategize and save.
