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Jagdish Dalal  

Internationally recognized expert in the field of outsourcing and Information Technology. Elected to Outsourcing Hall of Fame by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals

Jag is a internationally renowned expert in the field of Outsourcing and Information Technology. He has been elected to the Outsourcing Hall of Fame in recognition of his accomplishments and contribution to the profession. His deep experience as a business executive who contracted for these services as well as his leadership experience in establishing outsourcing practice for some of the world’s largest professional services companies; allow him to bring a unique perspective to consulting. His clients range from Fortune 100 companies to small “start up” companies. He has also been invited by the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Costa Rican, Brasilian, Colombian, Costa Rican, Trinidadian and South African governments to hold conferences in promoting the outsourcing concepts for the local service provider companies. Jag also holds position on Boards of Advisors for companies in the outsourcing services.

Prior to forming JDalal Associates, LLC, Jag was the Vice President, e-Business and CIO for Carrier Corporation with responsibilities for worldwide IS and e-business functions.

Previously, Jag was a Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers responsible for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in the Technology and Communication industry group. At PwC, he was responsible for the largest BPO deal recorded to date- Nortel Networks outsourced its Human Resources and Procurement functions to PwC under a $630M (5 year) agreement. Jag also led the “thought leadership” and marketing efforts at PwC in building the BPO brand.

Jag has held senior MIS leadership positions at Xerox, Unisys, Data General, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Teledyne. In 1994, as Vice President of Information Management at Xerox, Jag created the strategy and led the team responsible for a $3.2B global outsourcing contract for EDS. The strategy and development of this major contract was documented and is now part of a Harvard Business School case study.

He is a noted speaker and publishes extensively on outsourcing, offshore outsourcing, shared services and information technology management topics. Jag’s series of lectures on outsourcing have been recognized as “pushing the envelope” in strategic thinking about outsourcing, while providing a practical framework for businesses- users and providers alike. He has been interviewed and quoted by Wall Street Journal®, Fortune®, TIME®, Newsweek®, Financial Times®, Times of India®, South China Morning Post as well as CBS News and NPR®; for his commentary on outsourcing and management strategies.

Jag has received numerous awards and recognition for his contributions in the field of Information technology management and outsourcing. Jag has also been recognized as one of the “2003 sourcing pros to know” by the leading sourcing magazine – iSource. As Chief Advisor, Thought Leadership for IAOP (International Association of Outsourcing Professionals), Jag has created the curricula, text book and testing process for becoming a Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP) and it is used globally by outsourcing professionals. Jag has been a lead judge for the IAOP®-Fortune® magazine’s Global Outsourcing 100 list since its inception.

Speech Topics


Management and Leadership

• In God I trust, all others bring measurements • Creating and managing a "high performing" team • Manager's tool bag - those under-utilized tools • Plan of attack and Attack the plan • Management passion • "Big Data" - are you missing the opportunity

Management and Leadership - Information Technology

• New role of CIO • IT under pressure • Traditional IT is missing the boat - SMAC • Managing to a new delivery model • "Big Data" - what about systems

Management and Leadership - Outsourcing

• Overview of the profession • A look back to the evolution of outsourcing and where it is headed • Creating a new business model with outsourcing • What is the "value" in outsourcing • Managing risks in outsourcing • Innovation and outsourcing - friends or foe • Offshoring - creating the advantage • New area of outsourcing - Legal Processes • (for providers) How are you different? • Governance - secret sauce of outsourcing

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