Vendor managers who manage international operations need to keep abreast of foreign trade disputes. Obama’s bizarre anti-outsourcing comments, even if they do lack concrete strategies, should be enough to get your attention.
The same fear-driven, job protectionist attitude affects a wide ranging industries. If you haven’t witnessed this yet, check out Jason Busch’s article on Anti-Dumping.
Phil Fersht, AMR’s outsourcing guru, opened an interesting can of worms today with his blog entry, Is your outsourcing vendor really your partner?
There’s a good conversation, with everyone agreeing that a good relationship is essential, but some divergence over the motives of clients and vendors (oops, guess what our opinion is?).
The thread of comments is definitely worth a read - and be sure to contribute your opinion.
Inflexion Point’s Mark Stelzner reflected on the number of human resources associations yesterday. In a stunning turn of events, however, Mark comments that he received over 100 emails from a variety of HR executives about his blog entry!
Phil Fersht found it quite comical, as he suggests here.
Check out this list of procurement associations:
Imagine the gaggle of buyers gathering to discuss “purchasing”! It must be like a group of women (okay, men do the same thing) gathering to discuss upcoming holiday sales. “I bought this for $…”
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