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January 23, 2008
Outsourcing Center Announces Finalists for 12th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards Finalists
Outsourcing Center has announced 23 outsourcing relationships held by 46 companies are finalists for the 12th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards. Final winners will be announced in May.
The coveted awards recognize the most distinguished examples of successful buyer-supplier outsourcing relationships in several categories, including Best Partnership and Most Strategic. An independent judging panel of industry experts will now evaluate the finalists on criteria including the relationship’s mutual benefits, effectiveness and business outcomes achieved.
Finalists for the awards are:
• Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. and ABN AMRO Bank
N.V.
• AOL BB and Wipro BPO Solutions Ltd.
• Best Buy Co., Inc. and Accenture
• Bharti Airtel Ltd and HTMT Global Solutions
Ltd.
• Bharti Airtel Ltd and IBM India Private
Limited
• BT plc and Accenture
• Continental Automotive India Pvt Ltd. and KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.
• ENMAX Energy Corporation and Cognera Corp.
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Perot Systems
Corporation
• ING North America Insurance Corporation and
Hewitt Associates
• KB Home and Perot Systems Corporation
• Lloyds TSB and Firstsource Solutions Ltd.
• Microsoft Corporation and Accenture
• National Life Group and Perot Systems
Corporation
• Nuance Communications Inc. and Hewlett Packard
• Ping Identity Corporation and Luxoft
• Royal Bank of Canada (RBC Financial Group) and
iGATE Global Solutions
• Royal Mail Group and Atos Healthcare Ltd
• Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Computer Sciences
Corporation
• Touro Infirmary and Siemens Medical Solutions,
USA, Inc.
• Universal Music and buyingTeam
• Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd and WNS Global
Services (UK) Ltd
• Visteon Corporation and Manpower Business
Solutions
Members of the judging panel are Rod Bourgeois, Senior Research Analyst - Technology Services, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC; John A. Funk, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP; Russ Taruscio, FC&A Procurement Director, BP America Inc.; Ed Davis, Oliver Wight Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia and Dawn Evans, President and CEO, Sourcing Interests Group and Peter Bendor-Samuel CEO of Everest Group.
“We have a daunting task ahead of us as we evaluate these outstanding outsourcing engagements to select final winners,” said Bendor-Samuel.
Award winners will be featured in the annual Awards issue of the Outsourcing Journal (www.outsourcing-journal.com) as well as Forbes’ “Special Section” on outsourcing. Winners will also be invited to an elite celebration evening on the Forbes Highlander yacht, participate in an exclusive educational event that shares lessons and insights from each winner, and attend a black-tie gala and awards presentation at the “Oscars” of Outsourcing in New York City. Additionally, the Outsourcing Journal will feature stories throughout the year that profile award finalists.
Previous award winners include many of the world’s leading companies in every industry and demonstrate the importance of outsourcing in their strategies for business success. A list of all winners since 1997 is displayed at www.outsourcing-awards.com.
Posted by jbowles at January 23, 2008 07:16 PM
