The Hackett Group, a global strategic advisory firm, is a leader in best practice advisory, benchmarking, and transformation consulting services, including shared services, offshoring and outsourcing advice. Utilizing best practices and implementation insights from more than 4,000 benchmarking engagements, executives use Hackett's empirically based approach to quickly define and prioritize initiatives to enable world-class performance.

Phil Ferst, Research Director for leading analyst firm, AMR Research, discusses all issues outsourcing, offshoring, shared services and globalization in his blog Horses-For-Sources  www.horsesforsources.com 

 NelsonHall is the leading Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) analyst firm. The company provides buy-side and sell-side organizations with deep and independent subject matter expertise in all the major BPO disciplines, including finance & accounting, human resources, procurement, document management, and customer management services. The company is also unique in its in-depth coverage and subject matter expertise in industry-specific processes specifically covering sectors such as banking, insurance, and government, and in its evidence-based tracking of worldwide and regional BPO activity. For more information on NelsonHall, please visit www.nelson-hall.com

We are a specialist social enterprise management consultancy that focuses on delivering not just high performance but excellence. We exceed our client expectations, we partner with clients sharing goals, risks and rewards, and best of all we resolve problems!Our services concentrate on the provision of corporate transformation; outsourcing; and offshoring of business functions.  Unlike traditional consultancies that provide project outputs of variable quality with inexperienced graduates, we focus on providing business outcomes, with high quality deliverables from seasoned professionals.Combining unparalleled experience in our chosen markets, capabilities across all business functions, and seasoned professionals to add value as soon as they begin engagements, Proservartner partners with clients to help them achieve and succeed.

CEO is the leading international journal covering the CEO's evolving mission and responsibilities through analysis, case studies and interviews. Published in March and September, this unique journal addresses the most pressing business challenges where the CEO needs to lead from the front: Corporate Strategy, Finance & Investment, IT & Communications, Human Capital Management, Outsourcing and Technology.

Read by Finance Directors and CFOs across Europe, FDE provides a valuable perspective on a Finance Leader's most pressing issues, from Risk, Corporate Finance, and Performance Management, through to Technology and Outsourcing. Published since 1992, the publication continuously aims to address the increasingly strategic, and evolving, role of the CFO