WSJ and Procurement Speak
There was a great procurement case study on the WSJ front page yesterday. The title of the article is “Smaller Firms Grab Big Slice of Corporate Legal Work” and it ran in the Tuesday, October 22nd...
View ArticleManaging Third Party Risk with VMS
IQNavigator is seeing an increase in existing and new client use of our VMS (vendor management system) to manage their outsourcing and managed service engagements and providers. By a margin of almost...
View ArticleExpect a Strategic Shift Towards Expanded SOW Management
Editor’s Note: 2014 is already off to a big start for IQNavigator, with the recently announced acquisition of ProcureStaff Technologies. We believe this year will be significant, not just for...
View ArticleWhy the ‘SOW Guy’ is so excited about IQNsiders
There are several reasons why I am looking forward to the IQNsiders industry conference event in Colorado Springs next week. Let’s start with the venue. It’s at the Broadmoor… enough said, right?!...
View ArticleSOW-driven Shifts in the Temporary Labor Industry
In a new a blog series, SOW-driven Shifts in the Temporary Labor Industry, IQNavigator will tackle the big changes we see in our industry, one topic at a time. We will interpret these changes in a...
View ArticleSOW Drives Contingent Labor Change – The Services Portfolio
Part 1: The Services Portfolio View As I suggested in the introductory post for this series, getting our collective heads around all the change that is taking place in our industry and making sense of...
View ArticleThe Spend-Labor Split Paradigm for Services
Is management of spend the same as management of labor? No, spend is spend and labor is labor “…and never the twain shall meet.”* Right? The truth is, it’s not that simple anymore… Welcome to the new...
View ArticleVMS First – Another Change Driven by SOW
Conventional wisdom in the contingent labor industry has been to select the managed service provider first, then leverage the chosen MSP to select a vendor management system (VMS) to enable and scale...
View ArticleTop Strategies for Managing SOW-Based Services
With globalization, shifts in workforce demographics and the shortage of critical skills, it is no surprise that organizations are rapidly embracing a more flexible workforce. In fact, nearly 27% of an...
View ArticleVisibility, Control, Strategy… In That Order!
“FIRE, READY, AIM!” Isn’t this so true of how people often approach business problems? Most of us have no shortage of good examples where well-intentioned efforts to solve a problem in a hurry before...
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