Monthly Archives: April 2006

• Outsourcing: The blind leading the blind … pt. 2

  Posted on April 3, 2006 by hudgeon in VendorManagement

  Ralph Welborn and Vince Kasten make some cogent points about vendor management in their article The Truth about Global Outsourcing: 10 lessons we've learned about the difficulties of getting it done. Inflexibility is a key feature in most of their lessons. The key reason [for the failure of global outsourcing contracts]? Lack of contract flexibility [...]

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• Outsourcing: The blind leading the blind … pt. 1

  Posted on April 2, 2006 by hudgeon in VendorManagement

  These days, flexible contracting / vendor management is all the rage in outsourcing / contract management literature i.e. building contracts that handle the unknown events that will occur as time passes. Interestingly, identical discussions are now occuring in the project management and IT management worlds. For example, the article below discusses using an iterative approach [...]

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