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Agenda
Day 1: Buyer-Only Sessions
Buyers Group Members and prospective buyers attend sessions on managing contractual relationships, measuring satisfaction, and identifying best practices. These are closed sessions, by invitation-only. Featured presentations include a session by Towers Perrin on the results of its latest studies on HRO in the large market (over 15,000 employees).
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Morning Plenary Sessions |
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10:00 – 3:00 pm |
Registration Open Delegates register throughout the day |
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11:00 – 12:30 pm |
Large Market Buyers Group Business Meeting |
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12:30 – 1:30 pm |
Lunch |
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1:30 – 3:00 pm |
Track One: Representatives from leading providers participate in a facilitated panel discussion on global payroll, including best practices, success stories, and lessons learned. Open to both existing and prospective HRO buyers. Track Two: Uncovering the five sticking points organizations need to address with HRO and hearing from organizations that have successfully resolved them. |
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3:00 – 5:00 pm |
Buyer Breakouts by Provider Discussion groups for buyers with like providers to prep for buyer/provider breakout sessions on Day Two. Open to existing HRO buyers only. |
Preparing to Sign Your HRO Deal Round table discussion for experienced buyers to meet with prospective buyers considering HRO to discuss navigating HRO and deal-signing from a buyer point-of-view. |
Preparing to Implement Your HRO Deal Round table discussion for experienced buyers to meet with new buyers to discuss lessons learned on implementation best practices. |
5:00 – 6:00 pm |
Unscheduled Time |
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6:00 – 8:00 pm |
Evening Reception with Speakers and Sponsors |
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Day 2: Full Summit
The Summit continues the second day with a buyers-only discussion followed by keynote presentations, working sessions, and case studies open to all.
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Plenary Sessions |
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7:00 – 12:00 pm |
Registration Open Delegates register throughout the morning |
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7:00 – 8:00 am |
Breakfast Sponsored by Stone + Company |
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8:00 – 8:30 am |
Welcome Address
Summit Co-Chairpersons welcome Summit delegates |
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8:30 – 9:15 am |
Keynote Speaker
Mr. Gaston will share his perspective on the future role of the HR Practitioner and their role in leading human capital management in a global economy and the results of Avaya’s “best-of-breed” approach to HR. Sponsored by Convergys |
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9:15 – 10:00 am |
Featured Case Study
Learn how the right Web 2.0 technology, combined with rapid instructional design methodologies, can elevate the learning experience and produce a fun, engaging and rewarding event. Also, see how the formal and informal learning worlds collide to optimize learning and ongoing discovery. This session will provide three unique perspectives during a client case study walk-through. Instructional design, technology, and the all-important end user experience will be discussed as you journey through the phases of creating a Learning Ecosystem. Learn tips, tools and techniques for requirements gathering, developing creative solutions, rapid development, phased implementation, metrics, and on-going maintenance. This session will also provide you with ideas on how to get started. |
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| 10:00 - 10:45 | Networking Break Sponsored by Winston Financial |
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10:45 – 11:45 |
HRO Renewal Best Practices
As the HR BPO industry approaches maturity, early adopters are in the process of renewing contracts. Set against the backdrop of an economic downturn, tightening budgets, and a changing technology landscape, buyers are accelerating renewal negotiations in exchange for vendor concessions. In this session, Convergys, along with EquaSiis Research, will share actual case-studies, their insights on the HR BPO market, best practices, and key considerations when negotiating contract renewals. Account Management and HRO Governance Best Practices The continuing evolution of HR BPO provides additional opportunities for companies to take advantage of the lessons learned from organizations that have already successfully made the transition. Hear from Catholic Health Initiatives and Hewitt Associates as they share both buyer and provider perspectives on making HR BPO work in less time and with fewer missteps. In this session, hear about the pitfalls you should avoid and the actions you need to take to ensure successful outcomes for buyer and provider. | ||
11:45 – 1:30 pm |
Lunch Keynote: The Future of Capitalism and the Role of Finance & HR Leaders Sponsored by ACS
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1:30 – 2:30 pm |
Building the Right Retained Function to Support HRO
When done effectively, outsourcing can accomplish many things for an organization: reduced costs, improved service quality, greater leverage of resources and improved efficiencies across a variety of business processes. And part of realizing the effects of outsourcing's success means, by necessity, recasting the original function—and many organizations simply are not prepared or equipped to effectively transform their retained functions. Yet it's one of the most important aspects of the outsourcing arrangement, and getting it right is key to not only reaching your goals, but to taking advantage of the transformation benefits that outsourcing can offer. How does outsourcing affect the need to build and maintain the ideal internal function? How will it need to change? What will it take for the unit to continue to make a contribution? What kinds of people and roles will it need? Who will be responsible for its creation and success? |
Building a Business Case for HRO
A solid business case is the foundation of any assessment of HR delivery models. It is the baseline against which your alternatives are measured and a key factor in whether you can sell your recommended solution to the C-suite. So, how do you ensure you have a business case that can withstand CFO scrutiny and communicates the true business value of your chosen direction? Experts from advisory firms TPI and EquaTerra will guide you through the key components of developing a business case, identify common challenges and potential mitigations and explore areas of business value that often are overlooked and ways to represent these qualitative benefits in hard dollar savings. |
Pre-Arranged Buyer/Provider Breakout Sessions Buyers meet with their providers to discuss HRO. Open to existing buyers only. |
| 2:30 – 3:30 pm | Leading Large Scale Change. Chris McGoff, Founder & CEO of The Clearing Helping organizations drive to consensus and solve their “fourth quadrant” problems — those problems involving the highest levels of stakeholder and technological complexity.
At the World Bank he helped the organization create a new formula for aid allocation that minimized the problem of corruption and renewed the World Bank’s power to address global poverty. He will share lessons from this and many other client cases on how to create consensus and lead in the midst of organization-wide change. Sponsored by Wipro |
Pre-Arranged Buyer/Provider Breakout Sessions Buyers meet with their providers to discuss HRO. Open to existing buyers only. |
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3:30 – 4:15 pm |
Networking Break Sponsored by Winston Financial |
Track Three: Buyers meet with their providers to discuss HRO. Open to existing buyers only. |
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4:15 – 5:15 pm |
Recruiting Process Outsourcing (RPO) Panel Discussion Facilitated discussion with buyer organizations that have approached outsourcing of their recruitment functions from varying perspectives, including bundled within their enterprise HRO deal and stand-alone RPO solutions. |
Market HRO Buyers Group Panel Discussion
What are outsourced companies doing right now to improve service quality, realize cost improvements and realize efficiencies in their outsourcing arrangements? What distinguishes long-term outsourcers (pioneers) from new entrants (rookies), and what can the two groups learn from one another? What are the most significant emerging--and proven--best practices in outsourcing governance, measurement and business process improvement? How can an outsourced company best optimize its retained function, post-outsourcing? Each year since 2004, the Large Market HRO Buyers Group has answered these and other questions as it assesses its successes and ongoing challenges in an annual research study. Join this session to learn what this year's findings reveal about both ongoing and emerging trends in outsourcing. The study examines, on both a broad and detailed scale, what organizations can do to improve their outsourcing outcomes in terms of quality, cost effectiveness and efficiency. |
Pre-Arranged Buyer/Provider Breakout Sessions Buyers meet with their providers to discuss HRO. Open to existing buyers only. |
| 5:15 – 6:00 pm | Unscheduled Time | ||
6:00 – 8:00 pm |
Dinner Sponsored by ADP |
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Day 3: Full Summit (Continued)
The Summit continues the third day with keynote presentations, working sessions, and discussion groups open to all.
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Plenary Sessions |
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7:00 – 10:00 pm |
Registration Open |
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7:00 – 8:00 am |
Breakfast |
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8:00 – 9:00 am |
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Note: This session is open to buyers and prospective buyers only. |
9:00 – 10:00 am |
Track One: Buyers can face a bewildering set of options in considering HRO. One fundamental question is the degree to which a buyer is looking to leverage a standard market offering, or sees business value in having the market create a customized offering for them. This panel will examine the choices buyers typically make, and the advantages and disadvantages to alternative courses of action, in the context of integrating into the buyer’s existing IT infrastructure and protocols. |
Track Two: Most firms outsource small, distinct aspects of training like specialized content development but, have you ever considered a more holistic approach to sourcing some of your learning services? This panel session will focus on the Learning Services market, the typical services that buyers are interested in whether stand-alone or part of a bundled HRO deal, the benefits and challenges of outsourcing learning services and why we haven’t seen more of these learning services deals. Learning subject matter experts from selected service providers will be on hand to present their perspective and answer your questions. |
| 10:00 – 10:45 am | Networking Break Sponsored by Winston Financial |
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10:45 – 11:45 am |
HRO Service Catalogue A presentation by members of the HROA Standards Committee on the recently released HROA HRO Service Catalogue. This is an excellent session for those new to or considering HRO to learn about HRO service taxonomy, how to access and use the Service Catalog, and how to contribute information for future releases.
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Workforce Analytics, A Step Beyond HR Transactional Reporting Traditionally, HR organizations have been focused on day-to-day HR operational and transactional reporting. Given the paradigm shift of HR becoming a strategic function, the need for workforce management/measurement is gaining steam. Yet a recent global human capital study IBM conducted found that less than 10 percent of companies use workforce data to make insightful business decisions…and in today’s challenging economic climate, failure to leverage reliable, consistent information regarding key workforce measures such as demographics, compensation, attrition and costs in the context of business strategies and goals could equate to outright failure for many companies. The audience will learn when, why and how to harness the power of workforce analytics. |
11:45 – 12:45 pm |
HRO and Innovation
Although many companies outsource to improve efficiency, outsourcing is also a way for companies to become more effective. Transformational outsourcing is one way companies can become more efficient and more effective. This session will describe the conditions, pre-requisites and approach for successful Transformational Outsourcing. For many companies who have already outsourced, Transformational Outsourcing may not be an option. In many of these cases, innovation was not an outsourcing objective. The purpose for outsourcing was merely to “lift and shift” HR activities to reduce cost. Where innovation was the intended objective, some companies have found that the “state-of–the-art“ moved passed them. This session will describe strategies to move “beyond-the-lift“ and get on the road toward Transformational Outsourcing. |
Getting SaaSy—Is This the New Face of HRM Software?
There’s lots of buzz about SaaS, but what is it really? What’s available right now versus what’s coming? How does SaaS change the vendor/customer relationship? How does a client actually buy into SaaS and with what differences in the evaluation process? What can you expect in terms of vendor dedication and service, and how does this vary with the scope of the SaaS offering? What are the on-going governance issues, implementation and support challenges when SaaS becomes a part of your HRM delivery system’s mix of on-premise software, shared services, selective to multi-process BPO, etc.? What are the practical and expectable differences between today’s world and a SaaSier one? What do we know today, and what is just speculation or slideware? We have been discussing SaaS for a while, but there are now enough large, global as well as middle market implementations in various stages from underway or nearly completed to well into production for us to be able to judge what’s real, what’s doable, what’s desirable and how best to fit SaaS into our HRM delivery system’s strategy and design. Naomi Bloom brings not only deep expertise in previous systems architectures and functions but also has the insight to determine what will function well and whether all the providers of software will sell the same things or differentiate their offerings, and if so, what the key differences may be in the next two to three years. |
12:30 – 2:00 pm |
Lunch and Formal Summit Close Network with fellow Summit attendees over lunch |
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2:00 – 4:30 pm |
Pre-Arranged Meetings |
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4:30 pm |
SUMMIT CONCLUSION |
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