Slanting the Playing Field: Unlocking Outsourcing Value (Vested Outsourcing) It was in 2005 when Thomas Friedman introduced us to a “level playing field” in his bestselling book, “The World is Flat.” Of course, the IT outsourcing space was already in the midst of creating a leveling of the playing field by the time Friedman’s book […]
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Contract Management – July 2012
In the July issue of Contract Management magazine: Vested Outsourcing: The Path to a Long-Term, Win-Win Contract By developing outsource agreements that include 10 specific elements, firms learn by doing, employ their best talents and resources to the tasks at hand, and transition their thinking from the adversarial to the truly collaborative. By: Kate Vitasek […]
Outsource Magazine – Honestly Dishonest – July, 2012
This month’s Outsource Magazine column: Honestly dishonest… If you follow this column you know I am a fan of some of the behavioral and transaction cost economists, including John Nash and Oliver Williamson. This month I am adding Dan Ariely to my list of big thinkers…
SupplyChainBrain – Interview with Kate Vitasek – June 2012 WERC Conference
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…
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 […]
