Are your key performance indicators showing all is going well, but your company is seeing reduced profitability, higher employee turnover, and the loss of key client business? The answer might be found in the behaviors and competencies of a company’s managers. Vested’s lead researcher, Kate Vitasek, along with Tracy Maylett explore how “soft” skills can [...]
Vested Outsourcing and lead researcher Kate Vitasek were named to Globalization Today’s Powerhouse 25 list. The Powerhouse 25 list is a list of the 25 most influential players in the outsourcing industry. The readers of Globalization Today nominated and voted for those they believe are the movers and shakers in the industry. To read the [...]
The Vested Outsourcing Manual was recently reviewed by the staff at CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly. Their review “Outsourcing for mutual success” can be read by clicking on the link.
In her recent Academics of Outsourcing column, lead Vested Outsourcing researcher Kate Vitasek discusses the impact that Steven D Levitt has had on economics with his two books, Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics. One of Levitt’s most powerful points is what he calls the “law of unintended consequences.” While he tells lively stories of how unintended consequences [...]
In a recent roundtable discussion featuring Mike Marlowe, VP of customer operations and innovation at Kane Is Able; Bill Lindeke, manager of distribution operations at Kimberly-Clark; and Kate Vitasek, Vested Outsourcing’s lead researcher, discuss how to improve outsourcing success with an embedded 3PL. To read about their discussion, check the article from SupplyChainBrain.com titled “Improving [...]
Daniel Logan explores what Vested Outsourcing is and why companies should adopt it. You can read his article from slaw.com, a Canadian legal magazine, titled “Vested Outsourcing.“
In her most recent column on the Academics of Outsourcing, Vested Outsourcing’s lead researcher Kate Vitasek discusses how the late contract and legal scholar Ian R. Macneil turned conventional views about contracts upside down more than 40 years ago. To learn how Ian R Macneil did this and how his thoughts apply to Vested Outsourcing, [...]
Sometimes setting the record straight means knowing your history… Clifford Lynch details the history of outsourcing and looks into the future in response to “when a young consultant informed me that outsourcing was “invented in 1990,”” in his article titled “Setting the story straight on outsourcing.”
Vested Outsourcing’s lead researcher Kate Vitasek recently discussed the latest Vested Outsourcing book “The Vested Outsourcing Manual.” In the July IACCM Ask the Expert call, Kate talks about moving from theory to practice and how to use “The Vested Outsourcing Manual” as a guide for creating successful business and outsourcing agreements.
Vested Outsourcing’s lead researcher Kate Vitasek, along with Art Van Bodegraven and Ken Ackerman, dissect and explore the differences between various business models and incentives business can use in their article titled “Options in incentive procurement What are they and when to use them.“
