Atlas-GOSS and Mitchell Phoenix set out effective development support for Outsourcing Industry’s leadership and management

02 May 2007

London, England, 2nd May 2007: Atlas GOSS Limited, a provider of support services to global Outsourcing Service Providers (OSPs), has entered into a collaborative business relationship with Mitchell Phoenix Limited to bring effective development support to the leadership and management of the Outsourcing Industry.

This Alliance 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 Mitchell Phoenix’s portfolio to the OSP client base.

“When you are looking for Leadership or Change expertise, you want to see real evidence of proven track record. When we selected Mitchell Phoenix, we did so because over 4,000 leaders and senior managers around the world had already done so.” said Stephen Bailey, Managing Director at Atlas-GOSS. “With the Outsourcing Industry itself undergoing enormous transformational change, today’s managers and tomorrow leaders can at least be certain about one thing. Atlas-GOSS and Mitchell Phoenix know what is required to effectively manage change.”

For Kevin Yates, Managing Director at Mitchell Phoenix, the collaboration with Atlas-GOSS “Has a special significance, as the Atlas-GOSS leadership team was part of the Sema plc (Atos Origin) leadership programme in 1999. It is incredibly rewarding to see the results of our programme translated so fully into action.”

Stephen Bailey sees this approach “As another great example of why focusing on the effectiveness of leadership and management will outperform the overworked efficiency initiatives in meeting and exceeding client expectations whilst also achieving a substantial reduction in the total cost of operation for OSPs”.

Atlas-GOSS has ongoing relationships with the likes of EDS, HP, CSC, Unisys, Capgemini and Atos Origin. Mitchell Phoenix becomes the fourth partner to join the recently launched Foundation Alliance Businesses Programme and is aligning with PAS BSi 11000 for all 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. Our Vision is “for the Outsourcing Industry to be seen to be creating value effectively.”

Mitchell Phoenix Limited is an international training organisation providing leadership and management training programmes for business executives from the boardroom to the first line. For 20 years we have provided our clients with a unique resource for strengthening and building a high performance management culture, on four continents, with major corporations in Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.

Our clients use our development programmes to create business results through our uniquely structured, management training events. All programmes are practical, useful and immediately applicable. Management groups learn by applying theories and concepts to their business environment and, through their own efforts build lasting collective strength and capability.

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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