Last time, I talked about those 800-pound gorilla companies that can and do use their market position to browbeat their outsourcing partners to get the lowest-cost contracts and to otherwise achieve their own strategic objectives. It’s a classic case of Vested Outsourcing’s Ailment 1, Penny Wise and Pound Foolish, which might gain some short term […]
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Wages of Outsourcing
When your major technology component supplier’s employees in China are killing themselves and low pay, job performance stress and quality of life conditions apparently are major contributing factors, labor provisions in current outsourcing contracts suddenly become exposed in a huge, public and dark way. Questions abound, but here’s one: Is pushing for the for the […]
Government Collaboration? Seriously?
I don’t know how closely you follow politics and government in the United Kingdom but something quite remarkable is occurring there, beginning with the recent formation of a coalition government of liberals and conservatives. That’s quite a concept: liberals and conservatives working together. But even more remarkable than that – which normally might easily be […]
Supply Chain Europe, May/June 2010
Want to know how Vested Outsourcing works? For two companies, Jaguar and Unipart Logistics, Vested Outsourcing has worked for two decades and continues to work for them. Read about “The Five Golden Rules To Transforming Outsourcing Partnerships” that Jaguar and Unipart Logistics has been following.
Vested Outsourcing Gets Mainstream Attention
It’s one thing to get attention and kudos from peers and colleagues for Vested Outsourcing, for which I’m deeply grateful. It’s quite another when the mainstream business press picks up on the vested message! But that’s what has happened this week, with props and coverage coming from The Economist and Forbes Magazine. This week started […]
Shared Destiny and Vested Outsourcing
The evidence is building that the Vested Outsourcing message is catching on, if I do say so myself, since my book, Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing, was published in February. More evidence of its growing buzz comes from a white paper written by ARC Advisory Group’s Adrian Gonzalez on behalf of Unipart […]
Vested Wisdom from a Lawyer
After coming down (mostly) on the side of economists over lawyers for negotiating contracts in my post last week, I thought it would be only fair to mention a notable exception on the lawyer side of the ledger, George Kimball, an author and outsourcing attorney. Kimball is a long-time specialist in outsourcing, whose latest book, […]
Lawyer or Economist? Pick Your Poison
It may seem counter-intuitive – or even counter-productive! — to invite an economist to negotiate your next 3PL contract, as recommended by Adrian Gonzales in a Logistics Viewpoints blog entry earlier this month. But would you rather have a lawyer do it? Really? Gonzalez does make a point, and in entertaining style, featuring background music […]
Performance-based Contracts Perform
My Contract Management magazine arrived recently with even more evidence that a vested, collaborative approach to managing difficult contracts – or solving difficult problems – results in success on a huge scale. Most of us grew up hearing about the controversies surrounding the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver, a U.S. nuclear weapons production facility that operated […]
CEO Magazine, May 2010
A collaborative business model can bring transformational value to both the firm outsourcing and its service provider. Kate Vitasek, founder and lead researcher in the concept of vested outsourcing, explains all in her article titled “Vested Outsourcing: Five Rule That Will Transforms Outsourcing.“
