Allan Watton

Keynote Speaker & Thought Leader @Best Practice Group Ltd

I am a well-known thought leader in the industry, speaking at industry events, public sector forums and authoring many white papers on the subjects of supplier management and outsourcing relationships. AREAS OF EXPERTISE I frequently speak on how to recover complex provider relationships that are not delivering benefits and how to ensure such relationships achieve both parties’ business goals quickly. Best Practice Group is now widely acknowledged as the leading expert in identifying and clarifying the implied (undocumented) obligations of managed service providers, assisting organisations throughout the public, private and third sectors. Regarded as one of the foremost authorities on strategic service provider relationships, I ensure organisations achieve best value from their relationships and is skilled at developing practical (minimum risk) contract structures for highly complex projects and programmes that involve multi-vendor, multi-source relationships. SHARING EXPERTISE As well as producing the many BPG white papers, I am also the author of the BPG bespoke procurement and implementation process, OPTIMISE, that significantly reduces the inherent risks, timeframes and costs within major business technology projects and outsourcing agreements. I maintain a weekly blog sharing industry insight and guiding subscribers in applying best-practice processes and techniques to optimise their strategic supplier relationships. All of Best Practice Group’s blogs and Thought Leader White Papers are available free to download at More recently I, and my team, have moved into delivering thought-leadership webinars and online workshops, which are proving to be very popular with our client-base and more general readership and can also be found on our website.