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BUSINESS OVERVIEW

SIG University is an online learning environment that focuses on enhancing skills for professionals in sourcing, governance and procurement. Its asynchronous virtual environment allows an education without borders, helping working professionals gain the skills they need to compete in the jobs they want.

The use of outsourcing as a service delivery mechanism has continued to grow in prevalence over the past two decades as has shared services. Additionally, the maturity of service delivery has advanced as organizations progress through first, second and third generations of outsourcing and shared service center delivery. Over the past several years, Global Business Services have become the dominant model for service delivery in major corporations, particularly those with a global footprint. The GBS service delivery model has increased the complexity of governance since it relies on a combination of outsourcing, shared services and other internal resources. Unfortunately, enterprise service delivery governance maturity has not kept pace with the maturation that has taken place in the actual delivery of services. As a result, a more consistent and sophisticated approach to governance is required. This is particularly important given the increased use of these advanced service delivery methods, the growing number of parties involved, and the overall shift in intent from cost savings toward value creation and transformation. Without a consistent governance framework applied across the enterprise, organizations have little influence or ability to assess and improve their overall capability and maturity. This places the organization unnecessarily at risk and limits the value that could be added with a mature, enterprise-wide governance capability. Additionally, improvement cannot happen across the enterprise, or even within a governance team, without training at the individual level. SIG University offers two dynamic governance certifications delivered in a scalable virtual classroom:

• Certified Governance Professional • Certified Governance Expert

| INTRODUCTION |

CERTIFIED GOVERNANCEProfessional

The professional certification level certifies skills for incoming industry leaders who may currently be in the following, or similar roles:

• Category Manager

• Contracts Negotiator

• E-Commerce Strategist

• Fraud Detection Lead

• In-House Counsel

• Lead Sourcing Strategist

• Lead SQM

• Operations Services Manager

• Contract Specialist

• E-Commerce Manager

• Purchasing Specialist

• SQM Analyst

• Sourcing Analyst

• Risk Manager

• Senior Contracts Negotiator

• Senior Sourcing Manager

• Senior Strategist

• Sourcing Manager

• Sourcing Strategist

• SPM/SQM Manager

• Vendor Manager

• Associate Contracts Negotiator

• IT or BPO Lead

CERTIFIED GOVERNANCEProfessional

Governance Certification is generally applicable to any resource that works in the back office that has direct, or indirect, involvement with external service providers, shared service centers, Global Business Services or the management of these environments.

Prerequisites• Bachelor’s degree:

OR 4+ years of relevant industry experience

OR 8+ years of general business experience

BENEFITS OF SIG UNIVERSITY

By enrolling, Governance Certification can drastically improve your organization’s back office service delivery effectiveness and efficiency, and at the same time contribute to your employees’ professional development. An improved enterprise Governance capability will improve your organization’s flexibility and agility in getting and staying ahead of your competition.

Week 1: Introduction to Governance

Governance Framework

Week 2: Relationship Management Fundamentals

Six Relationship Determinants

Week 3: Governance Processes

Week 4: Commercial Levers

Staffing and Organizations

Week 5: Reporting and Enabling Tools

Transition Governance

Week 6: Wrap up

2016 SIG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF GOVERNANCE CALENDAREnrollment is open for the following quarters:

Quarter 1: February 1st – March 12th

Quarter 2: May 2nd – June 11th

Quarter 3: July 25th – September 3rd

Quarter 4: October 24th – December 3rd

Certified Governance Professional Curriculum

SIG Certified Governance Professionals should be able to:

• Assess and apply appropriate governance

techniques

• Detail the operating model components that

make up governance

• Define the types of business relationships

requiring management

• Apply 24 core governance processes

• Explain key governance organizational design

considerations including staff size, skills and

attributes

• Detail what information needs to be reported,

and to whom

• Understand the six components that make up

every B2B relationship and how to use those

components to assess relationships

• Detail outsourcing service level and pricing

methodologies as well as key commercial

terms requiring management

• Detail remaining governance processes with

descriptions, flows and design considerations

• Understand the fundamentals of how

technology can automate and enable the

effectiveness and efficiency of governance

• Detail the role of and how to align with

providers’ account teams during transition

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

SIG University provides education at your fingertips and on your schedule. Available online 24/7, our flexible coursework is ready when you are. Being a part of SIG University opens the door to industry experts at leading organizations, as well as access to more than 4,000 sourcing documents, tools, templates, methodologies and processes housed in the SIG Resource Center.

PRICINGSIG University Certifications are valid for five years and are renewable with

Continuing Education Units.Pricing is available upon request and is offered in the following packages.

For more information, contact us atinfo@siguniversity.org

SIG Member Pricing (Individual)

SIG Non-Member Pricing (Individual)

Member Cohorts (Private Company Classroom)

Non-Member Cohorts (Private Company Classroom)

Certification Test (Member)

Certification Test (Non-Member)

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