A gorilla usually gets what it wants, or thinks it wants because, well, it’s a gorilla; but the process of gorilla-hood means a lot of things in the way get destroyed. Sooner or later if you are in involved in negotiating outsourcing and logistics contracts you’ll probably deal with the big company, the proverbial 800-pound […]
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The Problem and Power of Induction
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, which has been a huge bestseller for some time, is getting renewed buzz in much of the frenzied analysis surrounding the Deepwater Horizon disaster. It also has ramifications in the realm of Vested Outsourcing. Briefly, Taleb describes a Black Swan as an event […]
What Watt Tells Us about Vested Outsourcing
James Watt, the Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and inventor of the steam engine, has a place secure in history as a prime force behind the Industrial Revolution. Obviously his invention was not the sole factor for the rise of the Industrial Revolution, nor was he alone in translating his game-changing idea to reality. In fact, […]
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 […]
Forbes, June 2010
Kate Vitasek’s, author of “Vested Outsourcing – Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing,” newest article “A New Way to Outsource” appears on Forbes.com. In the article, Kate walks you through why vested outsourcing is a game changer and how companies can use vested outsourcing.
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.
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 […]
Even Some Big Guys Need a Lesson in Vesting
When a manufacturer suffers recurring production delays due to parts shortages along its supply chain it’s a big problem. When this happens to a company like Boeing, which is trying to launch a major new product – the 787 Dreamliner – it reveals a costly and endemic problem that can verge on disaster. Randy Tinseth, […]
