In her recent column, lead Vested researcher Kate Vitasek discusses a real-world achievement that employed Vested Outsourcing principles, while also sending out some kudos to a friend and colleague who was instrumental in instilling those principles into the ground-breaking and award-winning Microsoft/Accenture OneFinance alliance on outsourced financial services, Srini Krishna. Read about Srini and Microsoft’s […]

Vested Outsourcing is named by Globalization Today as one of the Top Trends for 2012. Read more here in their article titled “Outsourcing’s Top 2012 Trends.”

Kate Vitasek’s, lead Vested researcher, latest article discusses how Vested Outsourcing was developed. In her post titled “Viewpoint: Vested Outsourcing for Asset Management and Maintenance,” Vitasek shows us how the Five Rules of Vested Outsourcing can easily apply to asset management and maintenance outsourcing.

Many companies are quick to say win-win partnership – but they are not contracting for true partnership and are falling short in unleashing the real potential of a fully Vested relationship. Explore how two companies, Dviersey and Wipro, created a Vested relationship and started an ITO (r)evolution in Vested’s lead researcher Kate Vitasek article “How […]

Adrian Gonzalez names Vested Outsourcing as a way for 3PLs to collaborate and what it will take to create a collaborative freight networks. Read his comments on Vested Outsourcing and what it takes to be collaborative in his post titled “Questions for Adrian (Part 2: Collaboration, Talent, Fuel Strategies).“

In her monthly column on the Academics of Outsourcing, lead Vested researcher Kate Vitasek looks at the work of noted psychologist Art Markman. In her article titled “Art Markman on looking back to go forward” Vitasek challenges customers and their providers to think about what they hope to say about the outcome when they look […]

Are your key performance indicators showing all is going well, but your company is seeing reduced profitability, higher employee turnover, and the loss of key client business? The answer might be found in the behaviors and competencies of a company’s managers. Vested’s lead researcher, Kate Vitasek, along with Tracy Maylett explore how “soft” skills can […]

Vested Outsourcing and lead researcher Kate Vitasek were named to Globalization Today’s Powerhouse 25 list. The Powerhouse 25 list is a list of the 25 most influential players in the outsourcing industry. The readers of Globalization Today nominated and voted for those they believe are the movers and shakers in the industry. To read the […]

The Vested Outsourcing Manual was recently reviewed by the staff at CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly. Their review “Outsourcing for mutual success” can be read by clicking on the link.

Shared value relationships are gaining traction in the outsourcing community as companies and their suppliers increasingly realize they can prosper by working together to create a bigger piece of the pie. In her article titled “Share the Value, Share the Wealth” lead Vested researcher Kate Vitasek explains what it means to share value thinking.