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Atlas-GOSS launches FAB Formation

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13 February 2007

Atlas GOSS Limited, a provider of support services to global Outsourcing Service Providers (OSPs), has appointed Company Alliances Limited as a Foundation Alliance Business (FAB) Partner, with specific responsibility for designing, developing and managing the Atlas-GOSS FAB Programme, in alignment with PAS 11000 (collaborative business relationships).

The appointment is the beginning of a genuinely collaborative relationship in itself, where Atlas-GOSS has been granted the exclusive right to market, sell and overall service manage PAS 11000 collaborative business relationships aligned support services to it’s client base of OSPs using Company Alliances as a delivery mechanism and Company Alliances manages the Atlas-GOSS Alliance Business Partner portfolio to the new PAS 11000 standard.

“At Atlas-GOSS, as a result of the unique perspective we hold and position we enjoy within the Outsourcing Industry, we recognize the significance of the impact that the new standard will have on our own business and that of our clients. Based on our assessment, the impact could well be on the same scale as ISO 9001 was in the early 90’s.” said Stephen Bailey, Managing Director at Atlas-GOSS. “What’s more important though, is that it could well be the catalyst that shifts the Outsourcing Industry off of its current cost reduction / efficiency axis and back onto the value creation / effectiveness axis around which the Industry was originally built. In partnering with Company Alliances, we now have some of the most expert knowledge in the Industry as our delivery capability to offer OSPs”.

For Jeff Goddard, Managing Director, Company Alliances Limited, the opportunity to become an integral part of the Atlas-GOSS FAB formation was, in his own words, “irresistible, from the moment Stephen began to describe the Atlas-GOSS vision and the operating model they are implementing in order to realise that vision effectively. The team at Atlas-GOSS are expert Account based marketers and business developers and really understand the value of having an Alliance programme that embraces the business relationship standard”.

“As Outsourcing evolves and matures, increasingly, end user clients are opting for multi-sourced partner arrangements that in many instances are made up of consortia of OSPs. This has historically created significant management and operational complexity and contention around whose standards, processes and methodologies should prevail” says Stephen and according to Jeff, “The new standard provides a strategic framework that will reduce collaborative risks and provide an effective basis for Best Practice to be introduced into collaborative business relationships.”

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Notes for editors:

Atlas GOSS Limited was formed in September 2005 to provide support services to global outsourcing service providers. Privately held and pre-IPO, Atlas-GOSS executives and associates have over 100 years of experience in Outsourcing across the entire spectrum of collaborative business relationships. Our expertise is the creation, development, contracting and execution of strategic value propositions specifically for and exclusively into global Outsourcing Service Providers.

Company Alliances Limited has a vision to become the world’s most valued management consulting and training company in the field of collaborative business relationships, Company Alliances pulls together its team of experienced and successful senior professionals in the collaborative business relationship field to offer a complete range of services to create, enhance and manage collaborative business relationships.  Including the complete implementation of the British Standards Institute PAS 11000 standard, Company Alliances services include: training courses, developing partnering and sales guides, developing collaborative strategies, selecting partners, managing them as a service and growth initiatives. In addition, Company Alliances has a directory service to allow companies to attract potential partners.

PAS 11000 the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) is a framework specification which captures best practice from a broad spectrum of organisations both private and public sector. Establishing best practice by harnessing the benefits for the business community is the backbone of BSi’s activities. Building on the knowledge network of Partnership Sourcing Limited (PSL), a joint DTI/CBI initiative, and its pioneering CRAFT methodology PAS 11000 provides guidance and an auditable platform, which most companies can adopt without major investment. It provides a common sense approach, which will enable organisations to engage more quickly and effectively to create collaborative arrangements that deliver real value with greater confidence in each other.

FAB Programme is the Atlas-GOSS Foundation Alliance Business Programme through which Atlas-GOSS is able to offer a broad range of support services to global outsourcers. Each company in the FAB formation has an area of delivery expertise that is highly relevant to the current challenges facing global outsourcers with an emphasis on enabling them to create value effectively.

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