The ISG Golf outing will be held on Wednesday, September 28th at the Coyote Ridge Golf Club in Carrollton, TX. If you are signed up for golf, please meet us in the hotel lobby for a boxed breakfast and our 7:30am Shuttle  to the course, or you can meet us onsite no later than 8:00am. The tournament will follow a scramble format and will be followed by a light lunch before we kick off the SourceIT sessions. 

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Sourcing will shift to continuous analytics and response, enabling a greater decentralization of sourcing to align more closely with the business and shift from a disproportionate emphasis on cost control to a more balanced focus on revenue growth, speed, cost and risk. This will also shift traditional category management strategies to multi-category product orientation. Different sourcing capabilities will be required to shape strategy with strong expertise in advanced analytics, digital technology, collaboration and orchestration. Sourcing and Vendor Management technology will become increasingly autonomous, enabling intelligent automation of discovery, analytics and coordination and empowering Sourcing's shift to strategic orchestration.

Originally developed to achieve large scale cost savings, sourcing has now moved to the next horizon of bringing transparency, agility and collaborative capability growth to accelerate growth of the top line.  Today, true "Strategic" sourcing means improving the agility, integration and performance of the value chain to deliver superior responsiveness to customer needs.  

Managing and forecasting Cloud spend remains an elusive and perilous task for Enterprises.  Developing and executing a FinOps model, in combination with Sourcing Principles, provide Enterprises with the tools they need to better address the challenges of optimizing Cloud spend.

World class procurement functions are undergoing distinct transformation where they continue to move from experiential decision-making to data backed decision-making. Procurement leaders are blessed with hordes of data and historic records which is mostly internal. They are constantly seeking market inputs from a variety of external sources to make sound, long term business decisions for their organizations. This can happen only through a digital transformation where the existing data sources, infrastructure, platforms and recommendation engines are challenged and re-engineered. Needless to mention, talent upskilling is a key area of transformation.   

To be competitive, procurement organizations need to cover three key areas when developing their digital strategy:

• How to create business value 
• How to get necessary enablements in place 
• How to build or integrate a solid data foundation

We will dig into ISG’s comprehensive and unique set of data, analytics, and market intelligence built through 30 years of sourcing and benchmarking, data collection and analysis, and showcase the digital business transformation in procurement/supply chain functions.

The Next Gen procurement is about data driven decision making , using of advanced technologies, smart contracting and more .This space is now in heavy need of digitization and is gradually moving away from one dimensional data on spend to multidimensional insights relating to performance, ESG ,business alignment ,financial viability ,etc. of providers. This panel will focus on discussing what digital transformation looks like in various industries ,the challenges, and best practices that are in play.

Whether or not we are entering a recession, strategic cost optimization now is critical, but requires new thinking beyond traditional cost-out approaches. Managing costs at the speed of digital requires a shift in thinking from long-term fixed commitments to long-term strategic relationships. It requires a deliberate effort to preserve options and provide constant updates to the ecosystem. This means organizations must constantly sense, analyze and respond to operational and cost data across functions in a way that incorporate the business, technology, sourcing/vendor management, data science and finance.

The IT services industry has never been more vibrant. Enterprises are relying on IT service providers to help them grow, execute faster and reduce costs like never before. However, providers are under pressure. Competition is fierce as globalization levels the playing field. Talent is increasingly difficult to source, impacting project timelines. And wages are increasing for in-demand skills, putting pressure on both buyers and sellers of IT services.

In this keynote session, you’ll learn about what technology services your peers are buying, key changes in services pricing and talent availability, and how changing enterprise buying patterns are re-shaping shaping the industry as we move into 2023.

Deep Dive: Getting a Handle on Cybersecurity - The acceleration of Digital Transformation initiatives across industries has resulted in a significant expansion of the attack surface, creating a higher likelihood of vulnerability exploitation. Companies are adopting new operating models and leveraging strategic partners to protect their core business. We will review industry-best-practices of how organizations are leveraging new ways of sourcing Cybersecurity to address these new challenges.