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I Predict a Riot...ous 2009

 Today – which is, incidentally, the 40th birthday of the computer mouse – I received a big (metaphorical) festive bundle of your predictions for 2009. And the first thing that struck me was a wave of viscera-twisting horror as I realised that despite pushing it out through our e-newsletters, LinkedIn group, individual emails and the Twilight Bark, I hadn’t mentioned our predictions feature in my last blog.

So a brief recap: we’re putting together a series of articles featuring your predictions for the next 12 months in shared services and outsourcing. We’re looking for short-ish (a couple of paragraphs) submissions outlining one event, issue, trend, idea, product – thing, basically – that you believe will make headlines or change practices in the space during 2009. It can be as off-the-wall or as mundane as you like; the only criterion is that you can’t hide behind a mask of anonymity. Whatever you predict, you’ve got to back up with the full force of your name and good standing…!

The deadline for submissions is Monday December 15th. So far we’ve got a wide range of responses – some frankly ludicrous, others at first glimpse extremely perspicacious – but I want more more more. So let’s have ‘em. You can send them to me at Jamie.liddell@ssonetwork.com – we’ll be publishing selected responses across SSON products and in associated media, and I’ll make sure I do better at publicising the results through this blog than I did at announcing the feature in the first place.

Moving ever onwards: as promised, earlier this week I published my interview with BPO legend Raman Roy (nobody has yet informed me they’re launching a US GAAP course in India – my offer of a free ad stands but the clock is ticking like the cheek muscles of a sleep-starved speed freak) while – also as promised – today I’ve put up the podcast of my chat with Unilever’s Christian Kaufmann. I’ll also take this opportunity to give another plug to last Friday’s Weekly Wrap featuring interviews with First Group’s Richard Emslie and Sunil Savara of Foundation 4 Life. Because that’s the kind of guy I am.

Coming up soon on SSON: a roundtable on shared services in Latin America and how they’re coping with the economic turmoil; interviews with practitioners from Central and/or Eastern Europe in advance of next month’s Shared Services Central & Eastern Europe event; and we get up close and personal with Lisa Ross, formerly of FAO Research and now with Genpact in the US. Keep all your feedback, and suggestions for new content, coming to the usual address.

I’m sure some of you will be gearing up for Christmas parties about now. Try not to do this.

Cheers!

Jamie

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