Futureshaping

The Internet obliterates the obstacles to doing business globally.

Manufacturers have been outsourcing production to the cheapest and most reliable source of suppliers for decades. In the last 10 years, professional service firms have offices not just in multiple time zones, but in distant cities around the world to take advantage of the skilled labor and time shifting.

Outsourcing is a topic of concern with global competitiveness, yet is common practice with non-core activities such as IT, marketing, legal, and accounting for many businesses.

Recently, business owners who had a need for transcription services, customer call centers, graphic development, or programming tasks have worked through popular business brokering sites to have work completed efficiently and competently. An industry trend has shown a roll-up of the central online sites such as Guru.com, eLance.com, and oDesk.com, making it harder for generalists to compete, yet a proliferation of specialty niche sites have sprung up for specific services, products, and vertical markets.

What does the future hold for business outsourcing as these connections become easier and easier to make? What are the risks to be managed? Who stands to gain and who stands to lose as the trend develops?

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The guest expert panelists for this teleseminar are:

Sarah Cook, Founder of Raising CEO Kids, a sought after speaker, business coach, sales and social media trainer, and co-author of The Parent’s Guide to Raising CEO Kids.	Owen McGab Enaohwo, President of Hire Your Virtual Assistant, who shows entrepreneurs how to use technology to systemize, automate and run their businesses virtually.	Lisa Pike, CEO, founded ScribeRight in 2000 and the company continues to grow and has set standards in the industry to help healthcare facilities reduce their headaches, increase their bottom lines and stay out of courtrooms.	Adam Sturm, President of the printing company Apple Visual Graphics, who has grown his business from two people in a garage to thirty on staff with a current yearly revenue of over 5 million dollars.

Expert Panel Facilitator and Host

The panel discussion will be led by Bill Ringle, a nationally known business growth strategist and president of the World Future Society of Greater Philadelphia. Bill Ringle works with CEOs and their direct reports to accelerate business growth through specialized coaching and mentoring programs. His client roster includes well-known organizations such as DuPont, General Electric, Apple Inc, and the Wharton School, as well as many outstanding, yet lesser-known organizations from many diverse industries. His work has taken him across the United States and Canada, and to Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. A vice president of development says, “I wholeheartedly endorse Bill Ringle to those organizations or individuals who seek a strategic thinker, a persuasive speaker, and a masterful facilitator.”

Bill is author of TechEdge: Using Computers to Present and Persuade and a contributing author to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Customer Service and The LAN Times Guide to Telephony. His latest book, Click and Grow Rich, is under development.

He is a frequent radio and television commentator on technology trends in business, and has written over 420 articles for publication in magazines, newspapers, corporate newsletters, and web sites. His audio magazine of interviews, "My Quest for the Best" is listened to by business leaders globally.

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Sarah Cook
Owen McGab Enaohwo
Lisa Pike
Adam Sturm

How to Access this Teleseminar

Attend this teleseminar from the convenience of your office, home, or anywhere you can dial in to a bridge line and join us for a stimulating panel discussion on the future of business outsourcing.

This event took place on Monday, June 20, 2011.