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Outsourcingtoolset Practice Guides
Armed with the outsourcingtoolset™, you can save tens of thousands of dollars in implementation costs – and more importantly ensure that your outsourcing deals operate in a successful and effective manner. The outsourcingtoolset™ directs you through the complexities of the Outsourcing Lifecycle, providing guidance, tools, and templates to accelerate your proficiency.
These pragmatic guides are designed for people directly involved with the decisions, execution, or management of an outsourcing contract – including contract managers and administrators, tender teams, sourcing and procurement personnel, internal audit, and consultants.
Cloud Insights- Outsourcing to the Cloud
This time, Cloud looks here to stay, and quite possibly overtaking all other forms of outsourcing. Even the low cost model of offshoring can’t compete – no labor is cheaper than cheap labor.
Cloud Insights- Tricks & Traps of the Cloud
The cloud is here and screaming for attention. Every strategic IT group within the legacy organizations I am working with has been mandated by the senior executives to have a cloud strategy by the end of this year to rollout in 2015. Not to meet a particular business strategy per se, but to be seen to be doing otherwise is being seen as doing nothing.
Cloud Insights- IAAS Contracts
Cloud computing agreements vary widely across the many providers and the many forms of cloud services. The contract can range from a vendor’s standardized click-wrap agreement for a vanilla SaaS to a multi-layered, heavily negotiated contract comprised of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS in public and private clouds.
A Study of Contract Management Styles in Australia
This White Paper investigates the different values and behaviours held and exhibited by the people that develop and manage contracts, based on a study of 688 participants who completed the Cullen Group’s online profiling instrument during the month of November 2011, to explain why some of the conflict exists and offer solutions.
The 12 Best Practices of Contract Management
Today’s procurement organisation is under constant change, as organisations move from a traditional pyramid structure to a diamond-shaped one. Strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier relationship management are all part of today’s procurement kit bag. Not only does procurement need to buy better, manage demand better, and understand markets better, it now has to manage the contracts that it puts in place. It no longer stops halfway through the contract lifecycle.
The Debate Surrounding Offshoring and its Effects on Employment
Although offshoring has existed in a variety of forms for decades, its controversy continues unabated. The debate includes whether offshoring actually saves money or not, what activities are and are not good candidates for offshoring, and most controversial of all, its effect on employment in the
consuming countries. This Executive Report discusses the offshoring phenomena in an historical context, investigates whether offshoring has actually resulted in IT-related job losses, and examines its effect on IT-related occupations in the US and Europe.
The Retained Organization- Managing the Hybrid Sourcing Solution
A hybrid of outsourcing and insourcing is the most common sourcing strategy for information and communications technology (ICT) in organizations today. It’s very rare to see an organization that has outsourced 100% of its ICT needs to third parties; likewise, it’s rare to see one that keeps everything inside.