If you are a small-to-medium size enterprise (SME) let me assure you that the Vested Outsourcing performance-based model of collaboration, flexibility and innovation is just as relevant to your business as it is to the Microsofts and Jaguars of the world. In fact, applying vested principles and the Five Rules is perhaps even more important […]
Bid Low at Everyone’s Peril
The following is a Guest Post from Jeanette Nyden, author of Negotiation Rules! A Practical Approach to Big Deal Negotiations (on sale at Amazon). She is also a co-author of the next Vested Outsourcing book, scheduled for publication next September. While it’s true that scrambling to be the lowest bidder on a job is a […]
Jaguar Rolls On with Vested Outsourcing
There’s obvious and growing evidence to support the idea that vesting together and closely sharing your outsourcing destiny results in continuing success. A great example of this occurred in mid-November when Jaguar posted the highest score among all luxury brands in America in the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Sales Satisfaction Index study. Jaguar is […]
Bridging the Gap with Incentives
An old saying goes, “Money talks, nobody walks.” In the case of the St. Anthony Falls Bridge rebuild project in Minneapolis, the saying could go something like, “Incentives drive performance, everybody soon resumes driving.” The Minnesota bridge project case is a powerful example showing that a collaborative, innovative—and incentivized!—approach to solving difficult problems will most […]
Outsourcing’s Wrong and Right (Part 1)
As with most everything else in life there’s a right and a wrong. It’s no different in outsourcing. Unfortunately the lines of demarcation can get a little blurry, as when doing what seems to be the right thing in the beginning fails miserably and then you win an award for it. Let me explain. […]
Endorsing the Vested Way to Outsourcing
If there is any further evidence needed to confirm Vested Outsourcing’s growing influence on our industry, look no further than the academic alliance that the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) has formed with the University of Tennessee College of Business Administration to promote Vested Outsourcing. That’s right – a premier outsourcing, offshoring and shared […]
Vested Outsourcing: Only the Resilient Survive
Vested Outsourcing’s message of true collaboration and partnership to achieve desired outcomes and increase the pie for everyone works over the long term in good times and bad, maybe more so during the latter. We know that supply chains need to be flexible, agile, collaborative, transparent, fairly priced, efficient and sustainable – both financially and […]
Drilling Down on Collaboration
Collaboration, and the need to get serious about it at all levels of the supply chain, was a key word heard frequently in the meeting rooms and hallways at last week’s CSCMP conference in San Diego. For the second straight year I joined Dan Gilmore, the editor of Supply Chain Digest, as a “guest contributor” […]
“Outsourced” Gets Outsourcing So Wrong It’s Not Even Funny
NBC’s new sitcom “Outsourced” premiered Thursday night. It’s supposed to be a comedy about outsourcing, specifically about a U.S. company that outsources its call center operation to India. The problem is it gets outsourcing so wrong it’s not even funny. During the show’s 22 minutes – minus the eight minutes of advertising from the likes of […]
No-Dread Collaboration
Rob Preston, editor of InformationWeek, has an interesting take on “Why Some People ‘Dread’ Collaboration.” He points out that a primary reason people “dread” collaborating is due to the amount of time and energy it consumes and that they often feel pestered and pressured to use tools they think they can solve on their own. Now […]
