Short Talks

Kemp Little LLP

Invites you to

Short Talks: A Morning Seminar
on

OUTSOURCING 2005:
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
Hosted by
David Meredith, Paul O'Hare and David Williams, Kemp Little LLP
and Mike Dodd of Forrester Consulting

at
Cheapside House, 138 Cheapside House, London EC2
on
23 November 2005 at 09.00am

PROGRAMME

08.45	Registration and Continental Breakfast
09.00	Welcome and Introduction
09.05	Improving odds of success (Mike Dodd - Forrester Consulting)
	Objectives and success criteria Supplier selectio Managing the relationship & dealing with change
09.30	Planning for the best... (David Meredith)
	Performance management Contract governance Change management
09.50	Coffee Break
10.05	... and preparing for the worst (Paul O'Hare)
	Consequences of failure Effective dispute resolution Exit management
10.25	TUPE - what goes around comes around (David Williams)
	Exposure to liability Changes in the pipeline Commercial solutions
10.50	Question Time
11.00	Seminar ends

Outsourcing remains a key strategy for businesses seeking to reduce costs and improve services, and has come to be considered a mature management tool. However, outsourcing projects continue to have a disappointingly high failure rate, and many projects, in both the public and private sector, experience significant problems, often from the outset.

In this seminar our expert speakers will look at some of the key causes of project failures and how companies can use the contracting process to optimise the chances of success and limit the impact of failures. There will be an additional session on the imminent key changes to the TUPE Regulations.

Kemp Little LLP is one of the UK ’s leading business and technology law firms. The firm has a growing reputation for innovation (the first UK law firm LLP), transparency (the first UK law firm to enable clients to see real time ‘what’s on the clock’), excellence (‘Boutique Firm of the Year’ Nominee 2004), and entrepreneurial approach (the only law firm in the Real Business survey of ‘50 To Watch’).

Forrester Consulting ( www.forrester.com/consulting ) offers strategic advice and analysis in a wide range of areas, including market strategy, effective use of technology, innovation and organisational design, supply and demand networks, IT sourcing and customer experience consulting.

SPEAKER PROFILES

Mike Dodd is an analyst in the Forrester Consulting gropu. His work covers a range of topics including IT management, outsourcing, IT services development and provision, project and change management, process management, and contract development and negotiation. Mike has particular experience of outsourcing projects, where he advises business on all stages of the outsourcing lifecycle, from planning through to exit.

David Meredith is a partner in Kemp Little LLP's Commercial Technology Group. David specialises in negotiating and drafting large scale commercial technology contracts. David recently acted for EDS on its winning ATLAS consortium bid for Increment 1 of the UK MOD's Information Infrastructure (Future) Project (DII(F)).

Paul O'Hare is also a partner in the firm's Commercial Technology Group. Paul has extensive experience of technology and business process outsourcing contracts and of complex technology procurement contracts. Paul regularly advises clients (suppliers and acquirers) on financial services regulation in the context of outsourcing transactions.

David Williams is a partner in Kemp Little LLP's Employment Group. He advises on all aspects of employment law, both contentious and non-contentious, and has considerable experience advising on business sales/purchases, mergers, outsourcing, restructuring, reorganisations and redundancies at both a national and international level.

Cheapside House in the City of London is a short walk from St Paul's and Bank Underground stations (Central Line) and otherwise easily accessible by taxi from mainline stations.

There will be no charge for the seminar. To reserve a place please email: christina.munro@kemplittle.com with the following details:

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