A pretty traumatic week for many looks, at the time of writing (fingers well and truly crossed – wichh ins’t hpelnig my tpiyng) to be ending on an up-note for the financial sector with significant market recovery in New York, London and a few other markets. However, you know all that (unless, of course, you turn to this blog before checking the news, in which case congratulations on your perspicacity); what you’re looking for here is juicy shared services and outsourcing comment, views, debate…
Well, there’ll be plenty of that next week when – assuming the markets don’t join forces with CERN and suck us all into some kind of world-consuming system-smashing black hole – I’m going to the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management’s EMEA 2008 conference on “Making Sense Of Opportunity and Risk: The Journey To Contracting Excellence”, hosting my promised roundtable on “Offshore Outsourcing: Can We Have Our Cake And Eat It?”, and attending SSON’s own Planning & Implementing Successful New Shared Services event in London (my colleagues, meanwhile, will be enjoying our 12th Annual Shared Services Summit in Las Vegas but hey, I’m not bitter: them’s the breaks) at which I’ll be running another roundtable on getting the basics right at the very beginning of a shared services journey. All of which events, dear friends, you’ll be able to read about right here when I get my blogging hat back on next week.
So meanwhile, in the interests of providing some light at the end of (ok: in the middle of – but at least it’s not a fire) the tunnel, at the end of one of the most tumultuous weeks the global economy has faced, I’m going to put all that serious stuff to one side and instead offer you the sheer beautiful glory of this.
Because sometime, sooner or later, whatever happens, the rain will stop and the sun will shine.
Have a good weekend.
Tags: IACCM, Outsourcing, sharedservices, SSON, summit
