Supply & Demand Chain Executive, Mar 2012

Negotiation is an art form. It takes skills, like the ability to bring two or more parties together to achieve great things. Kate Vitasek, lead Vested Researcher, and Jeanette Nyden discusses the old theories of negotiation and how to negotiation to achieve great things – like creating marketing value – in their article titled “The [...]

APQC, Mar 2012

What does it take to make a successful Vested agreement? Find out the essentials to a successful outsourcing agreement in this article about the “10 Essentials to Developing A Successful Outsourcing Contract.”

Strategic Outsourcing, Mar 2012

Lead Vested researcher Kate Vitasek and co-author Karl Manrodt, provide an industry insight article for the peer reviewed academic journal Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal. Their article titled “Vested outsourcing: a flexible framework for collaborative outsourcing,” can be downloaded from the Strategic Outsourcing Journal site.

Strategic Outsourcing, Feb 2012

In their article titled “Vested outsourcing: a flexible framework for collaborative outsourcing” lead researcher Kate Vitasek and fellow co-author Karl Manrodt, discuss their current research around Vested Outsourcing. They present the Five Rules and 10 Elements for an aligned, innovative, and collaborative relationships.

Outsource Magazine, Feb 2012

In her recent column, lead Vested researcher Kate Vitasek discusses a real-world achievement that employed Vested Outsourcing principles, while also sending out some kudos to a friend and colleague who was instrumental in instilling those principles into the ground-breaking and award-winning Microsoft/Accenture OneFinance alliance on outsourced financial services, Srini Krishna. Read about Srini and Microsoft’s [...]

Globalization Today, Jan 2012

Vested Outsourcing is named by Globalization Today as one of the Top Trends for 2012. Read more here in their article titled “Outsourcing’s Top 2012 Trends.”

Maintenance Technology, Jan 2012

Kate Vitasek’s, lead Vested researcher, latest article discusses how Vested Outsourcing was developed. In her post titled “Viewpoint: Vested Outsourcing for Asset Management and Maintenance,” Vitasek shows us how the Five Rules of Vested Outsourcing can easily apply to asset management and maintenance outsourcing.

Outsource Magazine, Jan 2012

Many companies are quick to say win-win partnership – but they are not contracting for true partnership and are falling short in unleashing the real potential of a fully Vested relationship. Explore how two companies, Dviersey and Wipro, created a Vested relationship and started an ITO (r)evolution in Vested’s lead researcher Kate Vitasek article “How [...]

Logistics Viewpoints, Jan 2012

Adrian Gonzalez names Vested Outsourcing as a way for 3PLs to collaborate and what it will take to create a collaborative freight networks. Read his comments on Vested Outsourcing and what it takes to be collaborative in his post titled “Questions for Adrian (Part 2: Collaboration, Talent, Fuel Strategies).“

Outsource Magazine, Jan 2012

In her monthly column on the Academics of Outsourcing, lead Vested researcher Kate Vitasek looks at the work of noted psychologist Art Markman. In her article titled “Art Markman on looking back to go forward” Vitasek challenges customers and their providers to think about what they hope to say about the outcome when they look [...]