CUNY Professor Named Judge for PricewaterhouseCoopers-Michael F. Corbett & Associates' Third Annual Outsourcing World Achievement Awards.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001 E. Steve Savas, professor of public policy at Baruch College Baruch College: see New York, City University of. , City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: [kjuni]), is the public university system of New York City. , has been named a judge for the 2001 Outsourcing World Achievement Awards. The prestigious awards are co-sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization and provider of business process outsourcing Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of a specific business task, such as payroll, to a third-party service provider. Usually, BPO is implemented as a cost-saving measure for tasks that a company requires but does not depend upon to maintain its position in (BPO BPO Business Process Outsourcing BPO Benevolent & Protective Order (of Elks of the USA) BPO Benzoyl Peroxide BPO Business Process Optimization BPO Broker Price Opinions BPO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra ) services, and Michael F. Corbett & Associates, Ltd., a global authority on outsourcing, to honor academic, business and government leaders around the world for extraordinary achievement and excellence in the outsourcing industry. Professor Savas joins a panel of distinguished judges, recognized for their own work in the outsourcing industry, to select this year's finalists and winners. As a judge, he will attend the awards ceremony that will take place in February at the 2001 Outsourcing World Summit in Palm Desert, California Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs. The population was 41,155 at the 2000 census. . The judges will select six finalists - three executives, including corporate providers, users, analysts and government officials, and three academics. Nominations for the awards are now being accepted and can be completed and submitted via the Internet by visiting www.pwc.global.com/bpo or www.outsourcing-award.com or by contacting Awards Program Director, P.O. Box 3098, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603, tel: 914-452-0600. Finalists will be guests of honor at the 2001 Outsourcing World Summit where an executive and an academic winner will be announced. Professor Savas' contributions to the field of outsourcing date back more than 30 years ago when as first deputy city administrator of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , he made the then, heretical he·ret·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to heresy or heretics. 2. Characterized by, revealing, or approaching departure from established beliefs or standards. recommendation to introduce competitive outsourcing to improve the performance of city agencies. Subsequently, his work at Columbia, as assistant secretary in HUD Hud (h  d), a pre-Qur'anic prophet of Islam. Hud unsuccessfully exhorted his South Arabian people, the Ad, to worship the One God. under President Reagan, and at the City University of New York where he founded the Privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned Research Organization, have made him a leading figure in the field. Joining Professor Savas as judges are: Dr.Wendell Jones, chief executive officer of GrayHare Partners and former senior IT executive at Compaq; Dr. Mary Lacity, associate professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who specializes in Information Technology Outsourcing Information Technology Outsoucing or ITO is a company's outsourcing of computer or Internet related work, such as programming, to other companies. It is used in refence to Business Process Outsourcing or BPO, which is the outsourcing of the work that does not require so much ; Paul Tarricone, publisher of Facilities Design & Management magazine; Barry Wiegler, managing director of Sourcing Interests Group, an industry consortium of over 100 companies involved in global outsourcing; and Allie Young, chief analyst at Gartner Dataquest. Michael F. Corbett & Associates, Ltd. (www.CorbettAssociates.com) is globally recognized as a leading authority on outsourcing and e-sourcing and is dedicated to advancing outsourcing as a powerful management discipline. The firm educates thousands of executives annually on these topics through The Outsourcing World Summit Conference Series, Firmbuilder.com (www.Firmbuilder.com), executive symposiums, research and training programs, and direct advice and counsel to executives at many of the world's leading organizations. The company's president, Michael F. Corbett, also chairs and is executive director of the Outsourcing Research Council, a leading executive forum for knowledge sharing and innovative thinking on outsourcing. The council conducts proprietary research for members into critical management issues around outsourcing and supports outside research and publication at leading business schools. The Business Process Outsourcing group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com/bpo) serves as the Global Back Office(R) for multinational corporations
In recognition of PricewaterhouseCoopers' successful client relationships, the Outsourcing Journal awarded the BPO group three prestigious Editor's Choice honors - the Most Visionary Relationship Award in 1998 for client work in the U.S., followed by the Best BPO Relationship Award in 1999 and again in 2000 for its work with BP in South America and Europe. PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) is the world's leading professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of 150,000 people in 150 countries, we help our clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance. PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the U.S. firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol and other members of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization. For more information about the Business Process Outsourcing group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, please visit the web site www.pwcglobal.com/bpo or use the Internet Keywords "BPO" or "business process outsourcing." |
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