Yvon Audette

Partner, Advisory Services, Management Consulting KPMG

  • Toronto ON

Information Technology specialist with a proven reputation for assisting clients across multiple industries improve their IT organization

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Biography

Yvon Audette leads KPMG’s IT Effectiveness Canadian practice within KPMG’s IT Advisory services portfolio and is a member of KPMG’s Global IT Effectiveness Centre of Excellence. Yvon specializes in Governance and Performance, IT Strategy as well as IT Outsourcing advisory services. He has helped clients in a range of industries.

Yvon is a key member of KPMG’s Global IT Advisory services team. KPMG’s IT Advisory team is located in a vast number of countries around the world. Yvon meets with the Global IT Advisory team on a regular basis to discuss ways to help clients looking to expand or manage Global operations or outsource services to other countries.

Yvon has many years of experience in the Information Technology field, servicing clients across multiple industries. As a member of KPMG’s Advisory services practice, his technology experience has allowed him to provide value to clients looking to improve and enhance their IT organization.

Yvon provides guidance to clients who are looking to:

- optimize cost
- evaluate a potential target organization in an acquisition
- develop an IS Strategy
- stabilize their IT environment
- outsource all or portions of their IT services organization
- improve existing outsourcing agreements
- assess, refine or define IT processes and supporting Governance frameworks
- establish or evolve Technology architecture standards and methods

Yvon has delivered several IT Effectiveness assignments for KPMG over the past four years and has spent over fourteen years’ in the field including seven years working for IBM Global services. He has published articles on the topic of IT Governance and IT Outsourcing and has presented to several events on IT Advisory related matters.

Industry Expertise

Computer Networking
Business Services
Computer Hardware
IT Services/Consulting
Social Media
Computer Software
Outsourcing/Offshoring
Information Technology and Services
Computer/Network Security
Telecommunications

Areas of Expertise

It Cost Optimization
It Due Diligence and Integration/Separation
It Strategy
Green IT
It-Enabled Business Transformation

Accomplishments

Member of Information Systems Audit and Control organization

As an independent, nonprofit, global association, ISACA engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems.

ISACA provides practical guidance, benchmarks and other effective tools for all enterprises that use information systems. Through its comprehensive guidance and services, ISACA defines the roles of information systems governance, security, audit and assurance professionals worldwide.

Member of Information Technology Association of Canada

The Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) is the voice of the Canadian information and communications technologies (ICT) industry. ITAC represents a diverse ICT community spanning telecommunications and internet services, ICT consulting services, hardware, microelectronics, software and electronic content.

ITAC is a prominent advocate for the expansion of Canada's innovative capacity and for stronger productivity across all sectors through the strategic use of technology.

Event Appearances

Canada and ICT labour and trends

Toronto Financial Services Alliance  Toronto, Ontario

2010-11-30

Mobile Search Ads

SMX (Search Marketing Expo) Toronto 2011  Toronto, Ontario

2011-04-29

Consumers and Convergence: Trends related to consumers and mobile devices

eMetrics  TBD

2010-11-29

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Sample Talks

CIO Summit 2012

Yvon delivered the opening keynote address for the2012 CIO Canada Summit, in which he discussed converging trends in IT and their effect on traditional IT governance.
At this exclusive gathering, CIOs from several industry sectors addressed key issues that the country's leading technology executives need to tackle.


Visit the CIO Canada Summit site to learn more.

The Multi-Sourcing Challenge

Insurance organizations large and small continue to face the imperative of reducing costs. Shared services and outsourcing are not only means to reduce costs but can initiate a transformation journey. In this session, led by KPMG partner Yvon Audette, we will discuss how to leverage the service value proposition, extending it beyond cost reduction and turning your support functions into a competitive advantage.

Overview of the Canadian Mobile Payments landscape. Insights from KPMG International‘s Mobile Payments study

KPMG International recently undertook a survey of over 1,000 executives across technology, telecommunications, financial services, and retail industry sectors. The objective was to identify adoption barriers and opportunities as well as to provide insight into the forces shaping the mobile payments markets. This session will provide an overview of the global trends together with specific context for the Canadian market place.

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