Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor and Director of Research at Babson College, to Keynote the IDC Outsourcing Forum in March.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- IDC announced today that Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor and Director of Research at Babson College will be the keynote presenter at the IDC Outsourcing Forum East, March 28-29, 2006 at the New York Helmsley Hotel in 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. . Voted the third leading business strategy analyst in Optimize Magazine's October 2005 issue, Thomas Davenport is a world-renowned thought leader who has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. Tom earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in organizational behavior and has taught at the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. , the University of Chicago, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the business school of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded in 1900, Tuck is the oldest graduate school of business in the world. , and the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas . An agile and prolific thinker, Tom has written or co-authored ten best-selling business books and has been a creator and early author for several key business ideas, including business process reengineering See reengineering. (on which he wrote or co-authored the first article, the first book, and the first casebook A printed compilation of judicial decisions illustrating the application of particular principles of a specific field of law, such as torts, that is used in Legal Education to teach students under the Case Method system. ). With his vast storehouse of industry stories, research & data, and cutting edge ideas, Tom Davenport balances research-based business acumen with practical application. His areas of expertise include improving the productivity of knowledge workers, information and knowledge management, attention management, idea generation, innovation, competing on analytics, managing enterprise applications for business value, and business process reengineering. More information on Tom Davenport is available at his website, www.tomdavenport.com. Designed for business executives across all functional areas, the 3rd annual IDC Outsourcing Forum East provides attendees insight into the potential that 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 ) can deliver not only to the bottom line, but in gaining market share and competitive advantage, and driving innovation throughout the organization. The program covers two tracks: the BPO Strategy Track explores specific functional segments of BPO (including HR, F&A, procurement, and customer care) as well as more "macro" BPO issues, including strategic partnerships, multi-functional engagements, metrics, and global sourcing. The BPO for Financial Services Track explores BPO within Insurance, Banking, Collections, and Payment Services as well as addressing strategic BPO challenges specific to Financial Services around captive operations, compliance and capital markets. Featuring case studies and real-world perspectives from end-user executives, IDC analysts, and industry experts, Davenport is among a stellar line-up of speakers including executives from Capgemini, Equaterra, Genpact, Goodyear, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , IDC, Milbank Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , NCO Group, NiSource, Oracle, Procter & Gamble, Prudential, Sunshine State Insurance, TPI (Tracks Per Inch) The measurement of the density of the storage channels on a disk or tape. Track density on magnetic disks has reached 125,000 tpi (125 Ktpi). See bpi, areal density and magnetic disk. , TrainingOutsourcing.com, U.S. Department of Energy, and UnitedHealth Group. The entire agenda for this conference can be viewed online by going to http://www.idc.com/outsourcing06. Sponsor and Partners of the IDC Outsourcing Forum East conference include Capgemini, IBM, Convergys, NCO Group, Oracle, ICG ICG indocyanine green. Commerce, Russell Reynolds Associates, Shared Services and Business Process Outsourcing Association, Wall Street Technology Association, Women in Technology International, Finance Executive Magazine, HR Executive Magazine, OutsourcingVenture, Sourcingmag.com, Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. For more information or to register for the conference, please visit http://www.idc.com/outsourcing06. To find out about conference sponsorship opportunities, please contact Jess Black at 508-988-7995 or email jrblack@idc.com. To request a press pass, please send an email with your full contact information and past article sample to dbasilone@idc.com. About IDC IDC is the premier global market intelligence and advisory firm in the information technology and telecommunications industries. We analyze and predict technology trends so that our clients can make strategic, fact-based decisions on IT purchases and business strategy. 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