Ronald Dworkin: trust and treating each other as equals By Kate Vitasek This month’s column features big thinker Ronald Dworkin. I like Dworkin because he tackles and integrates major ideas in ethics, morality, equality, justice and the “unity of value.” One of his most famous of many books is entitled Justice for Hedgehogs…
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SciQuest — August 2012
SciQuest Announces Kate Vitasek and Garrison Wynn Keynote Speakers at NextLevel 2013
Construction Management — August, 2012
Vested Outsourcing: P&G, McDonald’s & Microsoft Redefine Winning in Business Relationships August 6, 2012 in Construction Management, Corporate Real Estate Strategy
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
The Five Rules: Laying the Foundation – What’s in it for We?
Any Vested relationship flourishes best in a culture in which participants work together to ensure their mutual success. While many organizations boast that they have solid partnerships in place, the University of Tennessee’s experience and research has found that most organizations really want to enhance and push their own self-interest. This is often known as […]
Ailment #1 – Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
As we noted in the introductory blog to this series, our research and experience exposed the 10 most common problems in business relationships. These are “ailments” that can plague and potentially destroy an outsourcing relationship. Let’s start with the first and the easiest ailment to identify. The one that materializes when, for example, a company […]
Beware Strategic Drift—it’s Ailment No. 12
Even the seemingly most well-crafted contracts and business relationships can suffer from a common but dangerous ailment that I call Strategic Drift. Strategic drift occurs when buyers and suppliers don’t work to maintain their relationship, or put in the work needed to keep abreast and update their strategic priorities as business happens. I’ve witnessed Strategic […]
