European Leaders Network Announces Morgan Chambers as Outsourcing Knowledge Group Specialist

London, 29 May, 2007 -- Sigaria Ltd, governor of the European Leaders Network, today announced Morgan Chambers as the specialist and underwriter for the Outsourcing Knowledge Group for 2007.

Morgan Chambers is one of Europe's leading specialist Sourcing advisory firms, employing over 60 full-time consultants from eight offices world-wide and servicing more than 1000 clients in over 60 countries. As part of their involvement, Morgan Chambers will contribute an ongoing stream of articles, white papers, research and other best practice information, focused on sourcing and its impact on procurement.

Launched in May 2006, the European Leaders Network supports the growing demands faced by procurement executives from their organisations' boards. The network has become the leading independent community for executive-level procurement and supply chain management professionals and delivers learning, networking and information exchange platforms including events, research, online news, information resources and the leading industry magazine (European Leaders In Procurement).  Services now reach over 10,000 senior executives across Europe's largest companies.

Mark Perera, CEO Sigaria explained, "Outsourcing is a critical topic on the executive agenda and Procurement is playing an increasingly crucial role in corporate wide initiatives. Delivering up to the minute specialist information on key issues such as, offshoring, insourcing, governance, risk and contract management is paramount and our partnership with Morgan Chambers will help us enhance this service.

Involving Morgan Chambers in the network whilst maintaining editorial control means we can offer an even wider scope of valuable specialist information and resources to our network members."

Knowledge Groups are part of the online European Leaders Network web site delivering focused information on strategic topics. Support of each group is reserved for an individual organisation who has a track record of delivering objective information in the particular topic area.

David Downs, Principal Consultant for Morgan Chambers commented, "Almost all organisations now consider effective outsourcing as a key management tool in delivering against their business objectives. I believe that Procurement has a key role to play establishing and implementing an organisation's sourcing agenda.

In order to play a pivotal role, Procurement functions are having to transform themselves to operate more strategically at an Executive level, and more collaboratively at the operational level. By so doing, Procurement can not only drive the development of an effective sourcing strategy, but also help deliver it and, as a result, add real business value". 

Supporting contributions will start in 2007 overseen by the European Leaders Network advisory board and extend to the end of the agreed one year term.

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About Morgan Chambers:
Established in 1994 with a single purpose - to provide high quality, practical and totally independent advice on the best client Sourcing solutions, Morgan Chambers remains true to these principles today.

We employ business and service delivery experts who passionately believe that balanced Sourcing strategies deliver sustainable business advantage and huge flexibility. Whether in-house, Shared Services or utilising external suppliers, we drive innovative, accountable and measurable solutions.
Europe's leading specialist Sourcing advisory firm, we employ over 60 full-time consultants from eight offices world-wide. With more than 1000 client engagements in over 60 countries, we have unrivalled experience in achieving successful results.

About the European Leaders Network:
The European Leaders Network is the first European membership platform focused exclusively on executive level procurement and supply chain management professionals. The network is a catalyst for new ideas and innovative strategies, developed to support the growing demands on the purchasing function from board level.

It delivers insight and perspective into high priority corporate issues, providing a range of learning and networking programmes to keep European executives abreast of new thinking and approaches. Network services include: news and research, the community, events, ELP magazine, knowledge groups, the resource centre, careers, the supplier directory and technology.

The European Leaders Network bases its values on high-quality, trust, neutrality, focus, objectivity and competence, working closely with the support of its members.

To learn more, please visit www.europeanleaders.net or call +44 (0) 20 7819 6270

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Contacts:
Alex Martinez 
Sigaria 
Tel : +44 (0)207 819 6270 
a.martinez@sigaria.com