{"id":1486,"date":"2011-07-09T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/anti-ppt-party_070911\/"},"modified":"2011-07-09T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T14:56:00","slug":"anti-ppt-party_070911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/anti-ppt-party_070911\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest political threat (yet) to the outsourcing industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wouldya believe it, the Swiss, in their typically punctilious fashion, now have an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anti-powerpoint-party.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-PowerPoint Party<\/a>&#8221; with the self-stated goal of having\u00a0<em>the number of boring PowerPoint presentations on the planet to decrease and the average presentation to become more exciting and more interesting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party aspires to become the fourth-largest political party in the country, as you don&#8217;t need to be Swiss to join a Swiss-based political party. Clever, eh?<\/p>\n<p>So as I was busily enrolling myself in such a worthwhile cause, I quickly realized that if such a political goal was achieved, the whole outsourcing business would be in serious trouble. \u00a0For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How else could sourcing advisors justify their millions of dollars of fees to develop a 250-strong slide deck, designed to pummel everyone into submission by slide 23?<\/li>\n<li>How else would providers be able to pilfer each others&#8217; decks and claim to be the first to have coined their branded transformation methodology?<\/li>\n<li>How else could management consultants charge clients for change\u00a0management\u00a0workshops? Seriously, you think people <em>want<\/em> to change, as opposed to having hundreds of polished slides <em>describing<\/em> change processes that executives can discuss for hours?<\/li>\n<li>How else can lawyers send everyone to sleep while that $750\/hour clock ticks along?<\/li>\n<li>How else can buyers convince everyone into submission that their procure-to-pay processes are just so un-outsourceable?<\/li>\n<li>How else could analysts bombard everyone with reams of data telling you what you already knew, but at least make you feel <em>better<\/em> about paying for their services?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So please, please, please do not encourage our Swiss friends to destroy everything we have strived so hard to achieve. Long live PowerPoint and the incredible business benefits it provides!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldya believe it, the Swiss, in their typically punctilious fashion, now have an &#8220;Anti-PowerPoint Party&#8221; with the self-stated goal of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48,81,86,91,93,832,830],"tags":[137],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absolutely-meaningless-comedy","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo","category-it-outsourcing-it-services","category-outsourcing-advisors","category-saas","category-social-networking","category-sourcing-best-practises","category-sourcing-change","tag-anti-powerpoint-party"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The biggest political threat (yet) to the outsourcing industry - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/anti-ppt-party_070911\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The biggest political threat (yet) to the outsourcing industry - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wouldya believe it, the Swiss, in their typically punctilious fashion, now have an &#8220;Anti-PowerPoint Party&#8221; 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