Alsbridge Inc. CEO Ben Trowbridge to Present at Institute for Strategic Supply

Workshop will focus on innovative business relationship structures.

Dallas, TX (PRWeb) February 5, 2007 -- Alsbridge (http://www.alsbridge.com) today announced that Ben Trowbridge (http://www.alsbridge.com/bentrowbridge.shtml), CEO will speak at the Institute for Strategic Supply, a consumer packaged goods industry conference at the University of San Diego in San Diego, CA Feb. 7. The session, "It's Not Just Outsourcing (http://www.alsbridge.com/outsourcing_solutions.shtml): Innovative Relationship Structures," will discuss creative and forward-thinking business structures such as joint ventures (http://www.alsbridge.com/jvsourcing.shtml), alliances and partnerships and will offer best practices and case studies.

J. Ross Docksey, a distinguished and well-known partner at the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP will co-present with Trowbridge.

"Alsbridge clients have been employing innovative relationship structures and have seen dramatic improvements in their operational and financial positions," says Trowbridge. "I am pleased to give insight into these practices."

Trowbridge says joint ventures and other special purpose structures can be used in the same way as outsourcing (http://www.alsbridge.com/outsourcing_solutions.shtml) to support innovative business strategies. "A joint venture structure establishes a truly aligned relationship with common goals under one management team. It reduces internal conflict and allows communication to flow and it is a way to offload the risk and still keep some measure of control."

More research and articles on relationship building and structures can be found at Alsbridge's popular newsletter OutsourcingLeadership.com.

For more information on the Institute for Strategic Supply, please visit the organization's website at http://www.i4strategicsupply.com/.

About Ben Trowbridge

Best known as a thought leader in the evolution of outsourcing, Ben Trowbridge is a proven leader with more than 20 years of diversified global experience as Managing Partner, CEO and Senior Executive with proven experience in hundreds of outsourcing, shared services and offshore transactions as a consultant and buyer executive. In acknowledgment of his achievements Ben has been nominated for various Innovations in Outsourcing awards and is a recognized leader in all areas of IT and BPO sourcing and relationship management. He has created a number of new, and now proven, sourcing models to include the Sourcing Alignment System (SAS)(TM), JVsourcing(TM) Methodology, FastSource(TM) and the Market Reality Assessment (MRA).

He has led and supervised sourcing transactions ranging from $150 million to $2.2 billion for a variety of activities such as F&A, HR and IT across multiple industries to include: transportation, consumer products, telecommunication, manufacturing, retail, technology, entertainment and energy/utility industries.

Ben previously served as Managing Partner and as a Founder of Ernst & Young's Outsourcing Services Business, which was sold, as part of one of the largest consulting services sale to Capgemini for $10.5B Euros in 2000. Prior to Ernst & Young, Ben served in a variety of executive roles at EDS during a number of high growth years. Prior to his civilian career Ben served in the U.S. Marine Corps attaining the rank of Captain.

About Alsbridge

Alsbridge is the award winning global advisory firm, providing unbiased advice and assistance on outsourcing, shared services (http://www.alsbridge.com/Shared_services.shtml) and offshoring (http://www.alsbridge.com/outsourcing_leadership/dec2005_offshoring.shtml). Alsbridge consultants bring extensive vertical industry expertise and a practical knowledge of all areas within information technology and business process outsourcing. The firm's proven methodology incorporates proprietary collaborative sessions, bringing together executive teams from both the client and the provider in an environment that fosters collaboration. Alsbridge supports its recommendations and assistance through significant investments in proprietary benchmarking and ongoing research within the industry. For more information, visit http://www.alsbridge.com.

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