Published on YouTube June 25: Interview with Kate Vitasek – Supply Chain Brain @ 2012 WERC Conference Thanks to Russell Goodman, Editor-In-Chief, SupplyChainBrain
Material Handling & Logistics, June 2012
Identify Your 3PL Pain Threshold Tom Andel June 20th, 2012 One of the most unstable elements in a marriage is control. Too much of it kills spontaneity but too little leads to financial and emotional chaos. The same can be said of a business marriage—as in your relationships with logistics service providers…
Think Right, Do Right, Add It Up Right!
I had a lively conversation with my good friend, colleague and co-author of The Vested Outsourcing Manual – Jacqui Crawford – who spouted off a wise quip I think is worth paying attention too. “Think right, do right, add it up right!” Those eight words contain a powerful message that’s embodied in the five rules […]
Maintenance Technology, June 2012
The article in Maintenance Technology was published on June 11: The Rolls-Royce Of Effective Performance-Based Collaboration When you think of Rolls-Royce, you might envision its luxury auto nameplate. But there’s also a very good chance that the airplane you recently traveled on was powered by Rolls-Royce jet engines…
Shared Services & Outsourcing Network, June 2012
The SSON article was posted on June 12: Vested Outsourcing: From Transaction to Transformation Vested Outsourcing Part 4: Contracting for Success A common mistake in outsourcing is to cling to traditional, transaction-based contracting models. A more flexible framework is needed…
Post on Procurement Leaders
Here’s the link to my latest Thought Leaders post : Vested outsourcing element #5 – Performance measurement
Vested on the David Consulting Group Blog
A nice mention this week on the David Consulting Group blog: The Business Value of IT — Measure. Improve. Deliver.
Eric Berne: I’m OK, you’re OK (the psychology of win-win)
That’s the title of my latest column for Outsource Magazine. It begins this way: Too often people and businesses are locked into either destructive I-win-you-lose relationships, or what I often call a “ping pong” match where you are in a so-so relationship but either don’t know there is a better way or don’t have the […]
Needed: A “Getting to We” Negotiations Philosophy
If you are familiar with the Vested business model, you are probably aware of what we in the Vested universe actively promote as a What’s In It For We (WIIFWe) approach for developing and negotiating outsourcing contracts. A long time friend and expert in negotiations skills training – Jeanette Nyden – joined our UT faculty […]
ON SSON: Vested in Practice–Microsoft/Accenture OneFinance
Here is the latest from the series we’re doing for the Shared Services & Outsourcing Network: Vested in Practice: The Microsoft/Accenture OneFinance Agreement Vested Outsourcing Part 3: Microsoft Case Study | The Microsoft/Accenture team has won the industry’s top outsourcing awards, from SSON and others, for their partnership – which perfectly embodies Vested Outsourcing’s Five […]
