Bridging The Relational Divide with Kate Vitasek Jon Hansen’s interview with Kate Vitasek on September 4 Here’s the link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jon-hansen/2014/09/04/bridging-the-relational-divide-with-kate-vitasek
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Longitudes (UPS) — September 2014
The Five Rules that will Transform Outsourcing Article by Kate Vitasek in UPS’ new thought leadership blog, Longitudes Changing the business mindset from “me” to “we”… Here’s the link: http://longitudes.ups.com/2014/09/03/vested-five-rules-that-will-transform-outsourcing/
The Vested Way eBook and the Power of WIIFWe
We’ve re-released The Vested Way eBook this week while making it easy—and free—to download it in various formats so you can read it however and wherever you like. The Vested Way explores how and why the “What’s in it for We” mindset is revolutionizing business relationships through anecdotes and real life success stories. You’ll learn why the Vested mindset is […]
Taking Care with OPM
It sounds like a great situation—playing with other people’s money (OPM). In gambling parlance it’s called playing with house money. However attractive that OPM sounds, it can be very risky business, even when most of the risk is shifted to the person or company with the deep pockets. There are several factors about OPM that […]
Go for the Cooperative Advantage
In previous posts (here and here) I’ve delved into Steven Johnson’s insights on innovation in his book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. I’m again returning to Johnson’s outstanding book, briefly, because I was struck by an idea—“cooperative advantage”—that he addresses in his chapter on creating online platforms, specifically APIs, or application programming interfaces. […]
Outsource Planning 3Es: Experience, Essentials and Empathy
In my previous post I talked about maturity in outsource planning and wanted to follow up with a little more color from research by CORE, Deloitte and Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management on their survey report, “The 3 Es of Effective Outsourcing Governance.” The 3Es are experience, essentials and empathy. Parties involved in […]
How “Mature” is Your Outsourcing Plan?
I’m a fan of “maturity” assessments because they help organizations plot where they are relative to a set of criteria and other organization. While it might be frustrating that there is not “one” maturity model out there, I am ok with that as long as the goal of an organization is to improve by taking […]
Outsource Magazine — July 2014
Some Questions and Answers about Relational Contracting Article by David Frydlinger in Outsource Magazine, published online 15 July 2014. For quite some time now, there has been much talk about the need for a more collaborative approach in outsourcing. In this context, the concept of relational or collaborative contracting often appears… Here’s the link: http://outsourcemagazine.co.uk/some-questions-and-answers-about-relational-contracting/ […]
IACCM’s Contracting Excellence — July 2014
Risk management – let’s share the risk, not dump it! Article by Kate Vitasek in IACCM’s Contracting Excellence Magazine, published 24 July 2014 Risk management by definition is ambiguous and unpredictable, but it doesn’t have to be. Picture a highly collaborative approach. It shares the risk instead of pushing it to the other guy and […]
Standing on the Shoulders…
Previously I posted on Stephen Johnson’s work about how innovations that are built on slow hunches, serendipity and having an attitude that embraces sliding doors that open new pathways is conducive to driving innovation. These posts brought to mind the evolution of the Vested business model itself and how it relates to a powerful quote […]
