{"id":1702,"date":"2010-03-30T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/a-thundering-week-in-orlando\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T21:59:00","slug":"a-thundering-week-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/a-thundering-week-in-orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"A thundering week in Orlando!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Thanks for all of you who helped support the first &#8220;public&#8221; appearance of the Horses for Sources research organization in the lovely Orlando last week for SSON&#8217;s &#8220;Shared Services and Outsourcing Week&#8221; event, which achieved over 900 delegates. \u00a0(And yes, I was symbolically <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/being-middle-seated-all-the-way-to-orlando\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>middle-seated<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> on my journey home&#8230;).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our &#8220;Thundering Hooves&#8221; session, which was based on the <em>Family Fued <\/em>game show\u00a0(Family Fortunes in the UK) was highly entertaining\u00a0and we&#8217;re excited to\u00a0stage this\u00a0again (with real sound effects) in Edinburgh in May.\u00a0 Thanks to Lee Coulter (HfS), Deborah Kops (WNS), Tiger (Genpact), Graham Russell (Astrazeneca), Jay Desai (Northern Trust), Rick Arpin (MGM Mirage), Joe Hogan (Alsbridge) and Mike Fraley (Everest Group) for being good sports.\u00a0 And a special thanks to Emma Beaumont and\u00a0Sarah Clayton at SSON for making this happen.\u00a0 Now who, on earth, is this grinning\u00a0idiot?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3175\" title=\"Grinning Idiot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Grinning-Idiot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"548\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">You cannot be serious&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for all of you who helped support the first &#8220;public&#8221; appearance of the Horses for Sources research organization in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outsourcing-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A thundering week in Orlando! 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