Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST

Fee: CORE Members: complimentary; Non-members: $75.00 plus GST

Client Roundtables are a large part of the CORE program this year. The roundtables are an opportunity for senior leaders from different functions and industries to come together to discuss outsourcing topics and issues in a small facilitated environment. The table leverages the experiences and viewpoints of the participants allowing them to share ideas, strategies and solutions.

This webinar shares the key findings, outputs and learnings from our first roundtable and is opportunity to hear what is top of mind for senior leaders in the world of outsourcing.

The webinar will be hosted by Ron Babin, the facilitator for the first client roundtable. He will be joined by Mary Whatman, one of the roundtable participants and John Simke, founder and CORE Board Chair.

This session will be recorded.

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PRESENTERS

Ron Babin

Director and Assistant Professor, Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of IT Management [ITM]

Ron Babin is a management consultant who specializes in Outsourcing and IT Management issues. Mr. Babin is currently the Director and Assistant Professor at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of IT Management (ITM). Ron has extensive experience as a senior management consultant at two global consulting firms. As a partner at Accenture and prior to that at KPMG, he was responsible for IT Management and Strategy practices in Toronto. His consulting activities focused on helping client executives to improve the business value delivered by IT within their organization. Ron teaches IT management courses at York University’s Schulich Executive Education Centre and Ryerson University. At Manchester University he is a member of the Centre for Development Informatics. He is been an advisor to the IT program at the Richard Ivey School of Business, to the IT program at Sheridan College. Ron has been a regular judge at the MIS case competition at the annual Inter-Collegiate Business Competition at Queen’s University. Ron is on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Information Management and Computer Security. His most recent paper examining the effects of CSR on Outsourcing was published in the Journal of IS Applied Research. Ron is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and is a board member of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Ontario.He is also a board member of the CIO Association of Ontario and in April 2009, joined the CORE Board of Directors.

 

Mary Whatman 

Vice President, IT Services Delivery, Rogers Communications Inc.

As Vice President of IT Services Delivery, Mary is accountable to lead transformational initiatives across Rogers’ operational organizations while driving the delivery model towards operational excellence. In her career at Rogers, Ms. Whatman has also assumed responsibility for the IT Business Management organization, whose mandate includes establishing IT strategic and tactical plans for organizational, process and technology evolutions including delivering alternative sourcing models. Prior to joining Rogers in 2006, Mary held leadership positions in private and public organizations where she implemented large organization, process, product, and system programs to support business initiatives in a global marketplace. The organizations span many sectors including telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, insurance, medical and crown corporations. Mary is also on the CORE Board of Directors.

 

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