Michael Corbett, chairman of IAOP, offered rich, pointed remarks about the current state of global sourcing this morning at the IAOP meeting, touching on the global economic crisis and its impact on outsourcing, Peter Drucker’s prescient views on outsourcing and the recent political debate about working with offshore organizations. Some of his key insights:
Current Economic Crisis:

Corbett stresses the 'one nervous system' concept in linking providers with client partners
The best quote of the day so far: “Is the economic crisis an opportunity to strength the core or allow outsourcing to be swept up under the tyranny of immediacy of getting through the current month or current quarter?”
Client businesses are faced with a fundamental choice on how they look at current and future outsourcing …
Blogging Live from the Central America IAOP Meeting – Next Week!
April 13th, 2009Caribbean CRM Central will travel west next week – stopping in to shake hands and blog live from the Central America chapter meeting of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, in Guatemala City.

Guatamala City will host the IAOP's chapter meeting on April 23-24
Central America near shore BPO is thriving and we’ll show you why. Speaking at the event will be the vice president of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, IAOP chairman Michael Corbett, as well as Chris Disher, president Chris Disher & Associates, Don Althoff, former CIO of British Petroleum, Estuardo Robles, principal advisor of Roaring Jaguar, Roger Conrado, president and CEO of GVC Partners, Lori Blackman, president of DNL Global, Steve Rudderham, president of Genpact Latin America, Mario …








