KPMG: International number one ranking

Rob Starr, Big4.com Staff Reporter

KPMG moved up from the number two slot in last year’s IAOP ranking to ands now The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has ranked KPMG International number one in the IAOP’s annual ranking of the World’s Best Outsourcing Advisors.

The IAOP rankings were based on applications covering various criteria, including customer feedback, approach to sourcing, management team, size of practice, and global presence. KPMG has been in the forefront of heralding the shift of the outsourcing model from routine services performed in low-wage geographies, to an approach including more complex, sophisticated activities addressing business-critical issues, such as shortages of talent, regulatory changes, tax consequences, globalization, rising costs, and rapidly changing technology.

Cliff Justice, KPMG LLP principal and U.S. leader, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory (SSOA) commented:

“Leading organizations no longer perceive outsourcing simply as a vehicle for labor arbitrage, but rather as a series of partnerships integral to the success of their business,” he said.  “’Your mess for less’ is a strategy that is unsustainable and is largely over, evolving from a business of cheap labor and economies of scale to process transformation and economies of skill.”

“KPMG’s focus on business consulting, rather than serving as a large-scale operational outsourcer itself, provides us the ability to help clients transform internally and to engage and manage other third party outsourcing relationships,” Justice said. “We have assembled a team of professionals who sit among the outsourcing industry’s most prominent and we are pleased that our industry peers have recognized our accomplishments.”