I hope I’m not overreaching too much to suggest that Darwin might well be proud if, some 200 years after his birth, he were to somehow reappear to examine and dissect the evolution of modern outsourcing from its beginnings in the 1990s to what it is becoming today.
That’s because I think of Vested Outsourcing as [...]

If you’ve been following the previous posts in my economics of outsourcing series, I hope you see that thanks to Coase, Solow and their colleagues, outsourcing is now a major part of the business and economic landscape. However, it has been popularized, debated and indeed lionized in the mainstream press by Thomas Friedman.
His major bestseller, [...]

If there’s one thing that the economic woes of 2008 and 2009 taught us, it’s that collaboration – that oft-used (and often over-used) word in supply chain and outsourcing circles – must be more than lip service and feel-good fodder for slick annual reports.
It’s fair to say that collaboration is an essential key to survival [...]

Or was he?
It depends on which of the many quotes about winning, losing and life from the legendary Green Bay Packers football coach, who died in 1970, you pick.
For instance Lombardi famously said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”
I recently had dinner with Mr. Sylvan Schefler, a very wise and seasoned Wall Street senior [...]

Any Vested Outsourcing relationship flourishes best in a culture in which participants work together to ensure their mutual success. In essence, Vested Outsourcing buys desired outcomes, not individual transactions. The service provider is paid based on its ability to achieve the mutually agreed desired outcomes. Success in Vested Outsourcing requires engagement of five rules. Here [...]