A Cozy Stable for Outsourcing Vendor Management Professionals
Well, the day has finally come. The so-called “Mystery Vendor Manager” and primary author here at 360° Vendor Management, has formally joined forces with Horses for Sources, which this week announced its entry into the analyst industry with a unique vision and niche – Horse for Sources is the only BPO outsourcing analyst organization focused on buyers. This is great news for our readers, as you’ll get the benefit of his...
All Quiet for the Holidays
If it seems quiet around 360° Vendor Management, that’s because we’re off recharging our batteries for a busy 2010. We’ll return in a couple of weeks. Best wishes to our thousands of vendor management, vendor account management, and other outsourcing professions who regularly read our site and share ideas. Read More →
Outsourcing and Vendor Governance Predictions for 2010
Well, the end of 2009 is quickly approaching. Except for the yearend rush of outsourcing vendors trying to claim a final sign-on bonus or their potential clients trying to book severance into 2009’s blood-lined financials, there’s not much left to do, but prognosticate on what 2010 will hold for vendor management and outsourcing governance teams and their offshore and onshore vendors. So, please pardon me as I share my predictions for 2010. ...
How Relevant Is Forrester’s 2010 Sourcing and Vendor Management Roadmap?
Will the Forrester Research 2010 Roadmap for sourcing and vendor management professionals get you to where you need to go? I’m always interested in the professional analysts’ take on sourcing and vendor management. Paid pundits who spend as much time with paying buyer customers as they do with their pandering vendors’ analyst relations teams should have an interesting look on the industry, right? For the moment, we’ll ignore...
Commitment Matters: Outsourcing Contracts Are Worthy of More Thought
Tim Cummins’ blog, Commitment Matters is full of fascinating ideas. What else could one expect from the founder of the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management and someone who has been in the trenches. Tim’s article on the complexity of contracting exactly relates to what I’ve seen in outsourcing: a basic legal framework with innumerable details memorialized in hundreds of pages of schedules. The schedules...
The Horse’s Forecast for Outsourcing in 2010
While there is no way Phil Fersht, the leading BPO analyst-turned-vendor, is correct about England winning the 2010 World Cup, there is a good chance many of his other thoughts could come true in 2010. Read his predictions for the outsourcing industry here. There are over a dozen comments on analysis, so the conversation is indeed interesting. Right from the horse’s mouth, as one would say. Read More →
Hands On Vendor Management
Courtesy of the fine humored folks at Janeeva: Read More →
Vendor Management Differentiates in a Commoditized Offshore Outsourcing Industry
What Differentiates Your Vendors? Phil Fersht’s fabulous article on the commoditization of the offshore outsourcing industry is definitely thought provoking. He argues that vendors largely have the same operational capability and clients aren’t ready for transformation, which makes the offshore vendors with the largest marketshare the odds on favorite to win in the future – if they can transform their labor arbitrage-based model...
Attention Vendor Management Professionals: 360VM is Back!
After a long hiatus, the issues that previously silenced 360° Vendor Management have been resolved. I’m excited to continue the development of the #1 resource available to vendor management professionals, in collaboration to a number of professionals. In fact, thousands of monthly visitors have made 360° Vendor Management their top choice for information about outsourcing, global sourcing, contract negotiations, and vendor management....
Forget H1-B Visas…Can You Apply for an Indian Work Visa?
In a baffling reversal of fortune, IBM has offered its newly laid-off employees the grand opportunity of international employment under the local terms and conditions. Bangalore, here we come! Those unfortunate souls now have the opportunity to compare their unemployment benefits with their Indian counterparts’ wages. To give you an idea, California’s benefits for those who made over $11,674.01 in the last quarter (which is pretty...
