NEW YORK, March 3, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Sourcing Advisory (GSAG), a leader in best practice advisory, benchmarking, and transformation consulting services, including shared services, offshoring and outsourcing advice since 2000, has been selected for one of the industry's most prestigious awards: World's Best Outsourcing Advisor, an award given out to only 20 of the world's best firms as selected by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
"We are so pleased to be selected as one of the world's best outsourcing advisors by the IAOP," says John Stacey, Chairman and CEO, GSAG. "It's a great feeling of satisfaction to have our dedication to quality and service for our customers recognized with such an honor. At GSAG we focus on bringing together a team of 'expert' consultants and industry thought leaders to serve our clients with proven methodologies and tools that enable us to generate a higher level of shareholder value for our clients."
"At a time when companies that outsource are scrutinizing their suppliers more closely than ever to ensure they are delivering the high quality, value-added results being sought by customers, The Global Outsourcing 100 and The World's Best Outsourcing Advisors have become even more valuable reference tools for companies seeking to work with the best providers and advisors," said IAOP Chairman Michael Corbett. "The companies named on these lists and sub lists have demonstrated their expertise following a rigorous, independently judged process and represent the tops in the industry."
"We had the great opportunity to work with the quality people of GSAG over the past year and got to witness first hand their close relationships with their clients," says Joe Vales, Senior Partner, Vales Consulting Group. "John Stacey has developed a team truly focused on creating partnerships with their clients to handle a broad range of sourcing advisory projects that are frequently international in scope to achieve high value results for their clients."
The advisor rankings are judged by an independent panel of recognized industry leaders using an objective methodology, and compiled by IAOP. Similar to the request for proposal process, companies are ranked on overall capabilities and quality following a rigorously judged application process that examines multiple criteria. Final rankings are based on a weighted average on demonstrated competencies, size and growth, management capabilities and customer references.
The 2009 evaluation team, lead by Jagdish Dalal, managing director, thought leadership at IAOP, comprised of IAOP member professionals including Divyesh Dalal, managing director, India, Hamilton Sundstrand, United Technologies International Operations, Inc.; Teresa Harris, COP, IT manager, global sourcing, Eastman Kodak Company; William Hefley, Ph.D., associate teaching professor, Institute for Software Research; program director, MSIT IT Service Management, ITSqc, Carnegie Mellon University; Kurt Kohorst, COP, vice president, Agency Markets, Liberty Mutual Insurance; William P. Metz, COP, external business development manager, Global Business Services, Proctor & Gamble; Manish K. Sahai, COP, vice president, Customer Service Int'l. Network Partners, American Express; and Kristin H. Weitz Rammer, vice president, MAXIMUS.
About Global Sourcing Advisory Group
Launched in 2000, the Global Sourcing Advisory Group is a full-service management consulting and program management advisory firm with regional headquarters in New York, Atlanta, London, Beijing and Singapore. GSAG consultants work with on-shore and off-shore sourcing partners to provide its clients a blend of high-value services and commodity services producing the best overall possible results, in a unique Sourcing Services offering. Global Sourcing Advisory Group acts as intermediary to all sourced services, relating to specific client needs primarily from on-shore and off-shore sourcing entities at greatly reduced cost, and serves as the safeguard between its clients and the sourced resources and providers. Global Sourcing Advisory Group provides program management components of mixed on-site / off-shore teams with full-time management consultants, all who possess a decades of relevant experience in these areas. The GSAG takes the approach of global economic approach creating sustainable value for its clients. The firm also provides, separately and as part of sourcing engagements -- transformation support, where appropriate -- a set of management consulting services that are tightly related to transition development of all kinds and in all regions.
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About IAOP
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals(tm) (IAOP(tm)) is the global, standard-setting organization and advocate for the outsourcing profession. With 40,000 customer, advisor and provider members worldwide, IAOP helps companies increase their outsourcing success rate, improve their outsourcing ROI, and expand the opportunities for outsourcing across their businesses. To learn more, visit www.outsourcingprofessional.org.