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"So little information controls so much behavior," or so wrote theoretical biologist C. H. Waddington. In this Executive Update, we begin a multipart look at the issues involved in project management husbandry, drawing on data from Cutter Consortium's ongoing surveys.
"Out of intense complexities immense simplicities emerge," or so wrote Winston Churchill. In this Executive Update, we continue our look at the issues involving project management husbandry, drawing on data from Cutter Consortium's surveys.
"Out of intense complexities immense simplicities emerge," or so wrote Winston Churchill. In this Executive Update, we continue our look at the issues involving project management husbandry, drawing on data from Cutter Consortium's surveys.
William Zucker (WZ): We are meeting today to discuss procurement and, in particular, procurement as it applies to outsourcing. I know that at Vantage Partners, one of your focuses is the interconnect between vendor and customer and that you have worked with customers and vendors to help in business alignment when they are parties to an outsourcing arrangement.
Executive Summary
Outsourcing: The Procurement Dialogs
It's often the case that what we have come to accept as best practices need to be periodically reviewed against industry experience. Outsourcing -- though acceptance is growing, and there are many instances of success -- is still in its infancy. Many of the techniques that are used for outsourcing procurement have been imported from other procurement systems.
One of the many consequences of the September 11 terrorist attacks has been a reassessment of priorities and values.
