A call for better ways to outsource

The Grand Marque at the Federal Palace Hotel was the venue for this year’s edition of the Outsourcing Expo powered by Guinness Nigeria plc. The expo is an initiative of Resource Intermediaries Limited, an indigenous company registered to engage in human resources outsourcing services.

The expo was declared open by Pat Utomi, who was represented by Chidi Obuluba, and Chidi joked that he was outsourced by Utomi to cut the tape on his behalf.

In his keynote address, Seni Adetu, managing director/CEO, Guinness Nigeria, talked about the qualities of good outsourcing professionals. According to him, a resourceful outsourcing professional must possess skill and brilliant idea. “The way the world is advancing,” he said, “everybody has to bring in the best of their games because of competition.”

Olusoji Olawoye, a member of Association of Outsourcing Practitioners of Nigeria (AOPN), said “the exhibition cuts across different aspects of outsourcing as it affords practitioners and stakeholders a platform to network and share ideas.”

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He told the gathering “we are here today for the real reason, to understand outsourcing and the need to be outsourced. This forum has helped us to know the need for outsourcing as a profession, and a clear difference between contract and outsourcing.”

Mary Uriah, human relations director, Flourmills, highlighted the importance of having an outsourcing expo. To her, it is a good forum for outsourcing companies to know how to write good proposals.

“I have received like 20-25 proposals from different outsourcing company in my office. I wondered, after looking at the proposals, if there was anything substantial in the proposals. And so, it is good that there are associations like this to take in business needs and management consideration. I am sure this body of association will, as time goes on, come up with corporate oath so that as time goes on it will not fall back to trial and error,” she said.