Transparency is another of the oft-used buzzwords that is more spoken about and wished-for than actually implemented. I’ve always been a fan of Seth Godin, but I was struck by this latest post from Seth Godin that talks about a sort anti-transparency movement which – in my opinion – is not healthy. The first example […]
win-win
Outsource Magazine, Apr 2011
Win-win thinking is not just something nice to say. It’s smart business and really is beautiful… In the article “All in the Game,” lead researcher Kate Vitasek explains why smart companies are challenging winner-takes-all approaches and are going all in to win-win approaches.
Vested Outsourcing Is Not Gainsharing!
DC Velocity’s Basic Training column this week has an interesting take on gainsharing and the value that it can bring to the logistics outsourcing world. It’s mostly spot-on and very kind. But I must firmly set the record straight when the authors, Art van Bodegraven and Kenneth B. Ackerman assert in their “Gain sharing, pain […]
Logistics Management, Feb 2011
Members of the University of Tennessee’s Center for Executive Education share their five steps and a series of tips to improve your outsourcing relationship right from the start, in their article “5 Steps to Improving Your 3PL Relationship.“
What Does Supply Chain Collaboration Really Mean?
Adrian Gonzalez brings up an interesting point about the multifaceted use and misuse of the word collaboration in a recent Logistics Viewpoints blog entry. He says, and I totally agree, that collaboration is arguably one of the most overused words in supply chain management. (Other overused but often unrealized terms include flexibility, agility, visibility, innovation, […]
Vested Outsourcing Hits the Sweet Spots
Todd Shire, Logistics Sourcing Strategy Manager at Intel, has been a big fan of Vested Outsourcing from day one. He’s been generous with his thoughts and help and his valuable insights were major contributions to the first Vested book, Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing, which was published just over a year ago. […]
Happy Birthday Vested Outsourcing!
Today is very special for Vested Outsourcing: It was exactly one year ago on this date that Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing was published by Palgrave Macmillan. To say that this experience has been a wonderful, exciting and mind-expanding journey is a total understatement and I want to thank everyone who made […]
Shared Value: The Path to Success
The concept of shared value is difficult to understand and implement in a society, economy and business climate where sharing is not necessarily a prime motivation or even much in evidence. In the Vested Outsourcing approach to doing business shared value is an important step on the way to true collaboration and getting to the […]
Vested Outsourcing a Big Part of Mega Tech Success in 2010
I certainly didn’t expect to do a follow-up post on Mega Tech of Oregon’s great Vested story quite so quickly, but sometimes these things just fall in your lap, or maybe the stars are really aligned this month. Anyway, you may recall a post I wrote earlier this month about how Vested Outsourcing is not […]
Negotiation, Economics and Outsourcing
Negotiation is on my mind a lot lately as I finish The Vested Outsourcing Manual with three colleagues and friends. It also apparently is much on the mind of Tim Cummins in his excellent “Commitment Matters” blog, where he writes about the “economics of negotiation” and the “purpose of negotiation.” It’s on my mind because […]
