EVENT DETAILS
May 22, 2014, 6-7:30 p.m.
6-6:30 p.m. - Reception, VIP Room V Foyer
6:30-7 p.m. - Remarks by Dean Kennedy, VIP Room V
7-7:30 pm - Networking, VIP Room V
Location - Four Seasons Hotel Puxi, Shanghai (500 Weihai Road)
Tickets: no charge
* This event is sponsored by the Bob Britney Lecture Series
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About the Event
For two decades the offshoring of manufacturing transformed the global economic landscape and helped China develop into the powerhouse it is today. Now, the offshoring of services is driving an even more profound transformation in the way we think about global strategy and the economies of the future. While the first wave of services offshoring centred on moving basic business processes and call centres, the economic and strategic benefits for the outsourcing firm turned out to be far greater than the sum of its labor-cost savings. As Bob Kennedy points out in The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity, the real economic gains of the services shift result from access to the best combination of talent, resources, and local markets combined with more efficient management in the home country.
What does the Services Shift mean for China?
What must happen for China to fully capitalize on the services shift? Can an offshoring nation itself now embrace an offshoring strategy to capture new markets and spur innovation?
Providing an objective perspective and keen insight into the global services shift, Ivey Business School Dean Bob Kennedy will reveal the drivers behind the services shift; an explanation of how it affects countries, industries, firms and people; and, advice on how firms can cultivate a strategy for this new world of opportunity.
About the Speaker
Dean Robert (Bob) Kennedy is the ninth Dean of the Ivey Business School and holds the Lawrence G. Tapp Chair in Leadership. He comes to Ivey from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, where for the past 10 years he has led the William Davidson Institute (WDI), a non-profit research and educational institute that focuses on business and policy issues in emerging market economies. During the same time, Kennedy served as the Director of the Ross School Global Initiative and as the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at Ross, teaching corporate strategy and international business courses in the MBA, EMBA, and Executive Education programs. A well-known scholar, speaker, and educator, Kennedy’s research focuses on the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in developing countries. He is a graduate of MIT, Stanford and Harvard, and taught at Harvard Business School for 10 years prior to joining the Ross School of Business.