Live Webinar

GBS Industry Standards: Leapfrogging Maturity in a Changing Context

4 June, 2026
 
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM EDT

About This Webinar

The Alliance for Professional Excellence in Global Business Services (APEX GBS) has developed the first practitioner-led standards defining GBS as an enterprise operating model.  

Version 2 expands the original standards with deeper, practical guidance on applying AI, strengthening data and decision capabilities, and scaling GBS beyond transactional work. It also reflects how the role of GBS is evolving, with greater responsibility for enterprise data, insight, and decision support.

This is an opportunity to hear some of the most well known names in the GBS industry talk about how they would deal with the dramatically changing GBS world. What undying GBS approaches could be reapplied to leapfrog GBS maturity.  

What you will learn

  • Where most GBS models fall short today and what separates high-performing models
  • How to leapfrog your GBS maturity using AI, data and decision capabilities, and expanded operating guidance
  • How GBS is evolving to play a more central role in data, insight, and decision-making
  • Practical considerations when scaling, evolving, or resetting a GBS model
  • How Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are being used for higher value creation
  • How service leaders are expected to operate as "CEOs" of their service lines
Join the session to learn how the standards are evolving and how you can be part of it. 

Moderator:

Naomi Secor
Global Managing Director
SSON Research & Analytics

APEX GBS Standards Committee:

Filippo Passerini
Former P&G President GBS and CIO; Co-Founder
Inixia
Shane Abeyratne
Senior Vice President, Global Business Services
Cardinal Health
Steve Rudderham
Global Business Services
Industry Leader
Deborah Kops
Principal
Sourcing Change
Tony Saldanha
Former P&G VP GBS; Co-Founder
Inixia

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