Dallas,
TX - July 16, 2007
- Alsbridge, the award winning outsourcing, shared services and offshoring advisory
firm, today announced the inception of its new Sourcing Leadership Executive
Coaching Program. The new service is
aimed at executives facing the challenges of managing successful outsourcing
relationships across multiple business functions and geographic locations.
"Business transformations such as
outsourcing are one of the most challenging professional and personal events in
the lives of executives," explained Ben Trowbridge, chief executive
officer of Alsbridge. "The stakes are high, and often their entire
operations teams are suddenly replaced with an outside provider. We think
it makes sense to combine coaching with sourcing in order to help executives
navigate through the high stakes change management maze."
Relationship management and governance by a
client organization is a high impact factor determining success or failure of
sourcing initiatives. In addition, executive leadership creativity is
essential to sustainable relationships and finding innovation. Many
client-side executives are either stuck in vendor management mindsets that fail
to generate innovation from and with providers, or are shifting from operations
leadership to vendor governance without a playbook.
“Many firms have conceptualized a framework
and design for governance, vendor management, contract compliance and
organizational change,” says Barry Weiss, managing director at Alsbridge and
leader of the new program. “At Alsbridge
we have done all that and now announce what we believe is a missing component, sourcing-focused
executive coaching.”
Weiss says that by combining deep domain
expertise in sourcing governance with the latest methodology in executive
coaching, and a network of certified executive caches, Alsbridge can provide its
clients with tailored support to directly help executive leaders make sure
their sourcing and transformation initiatives succeed.
Each Alsbridge certified executive coach is a
fully qualified, experienced executive coach that has completed Alsbridge’s
sourcing-focused coach certification program – a 40-hour certification program
unique in the business. Each coach steps into an assignment with a client
sourcing leader having dual credentials to guide and support client executives
through the challenges in leading internal change, provider governance, and
realization of the business case.
For more information, please visit www.alsbridge.com or call +1 (214)
696-6410.
