SSON Collaborative Research combines the event delivery capabilities of the largest and most established global community of shared services and outsourcing professionals, the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network, with the most advanced peer networking and online best practice research company, Peeriosity LLC. The offering represents the world's finest set of solutions for shared service professionals and their teams.

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 Fersht, 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 

With members from more than 90 countries and over 1,600 corporations, the association is leading the way in responding to the demands of global networked markets. Our membership is drawn from many industries and is made up of contract and commercial managers, negotiators, attorneys and supply chain professionals. More than 120 companies have now established Corporate Memberships, gaining enhanced services that support their performance and understanding of market trends.

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.