Cynthia Rabe: innovation and zero-gravity thinkers May column by Kate Vitasek in Outsource Magazine This month’s blog honours best-selling author Cynthia Barton Rabe, author of The Innovation Killer. Tragically, Rabe passed away in 2011, killed by a hit and run driver at age 47—just five years after her revolutionary book on innovation was published… Here’s the [...]
Outsource Magazine – April 2013
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Michael Porter: the shared value path Kate Vitasek’s latest Outsource Magazine column published April 18, 2013. Here’s the link: http://outsourcemagazine.co.uk/michael-porter-the-shared-value-path/
Outsource Magazine — April 2013
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Breaking the Outsourcing Conundrum Article in Outsource Magazine (Issue 31) by Kate Vitasek and Rob Ubanowicz. It begins at page 48 and runs through page 54 of the digital edition. Here’s the link: http://europe.nxtbook.com/emp/outsource/Outsource_31/index.php#/48
Outsource Magazine — March 2013
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Vaia and Tommasetti: connecting governance with trust and commitment Outsource Magazine March column by Kate Vitasek. I often talk about the need for insightful governance as an essential part of business frameworks. In fact, it’s what Vested’s Rule 5 is all about. So I was happy to learn about the work of two scholars from Italy’s University [...]
Outsource Magazine — January 2013
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Paul Krugman: pushing for some economic rationality Blog/column by Kate Vitasek I’ve talked a lot about “economic rationality” in outsourcing and business relationships in a globalised marketplace. This blog is dedicated to Paul Krugman, an economist and Nobel laureate, who fights for rationality mostly against great odds from within and without the economic community… Here’s [...]
Outsource Magazine — December 2012
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Co-operation’s role in long-term contracting Kate Vitasek’s December column in Outsource Magazine. It begins: I’ve talked at length in this series recently about how academics and big thinkers have buttressed the importance of trust and collaboration in outsource deals. While it may seem like an anomaly, or at least a new idea, to mention cooperation [...]
Outsource Magazine — Autumn 2012
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Getting to the real-life win-win This article originally appeared in Outsource Magazine Issue #29 Autumn 2012 By Kate Vitasek After two years of blogging for Outsource I hope readers have at least heard of Vested Outsourcing and maybe even read one of our three books. But perhaps you have some doubts and concerns, so you are still waiting on [...]
Outsource Magazine — November, 2012
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Kenneth Arrow: trust’s central role This month’s column begins: We know that trust, ethical behavior and collaboration go hand-in-hand in our personal and social relationships. But how widespread are those things in our business and outsourcing relationships? Obviously they should be!… Here’s the link: http://www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk/articles/item/4845-kenneth-arrow-trusts-central-role
Outsource Magazine — October 2012
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Douglass North: institutions and success The October column in Outsource Magazine explores Nobel laureate Douglass North’s ideas on institutions, “new institutional economics,” how institutions and societies interact and how those interactions can positively or negatively impact economics as they evolve. Here’s the link: http://outsourcemagazine.co.uk/articles/item/4826-douglass-north-institutions-and-success
Outsource Magazine — September 2012
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Ronald Dworkin: trust and treating each other as equals By Kate Vitasek This month’s column features big thinker Ronald Dworkin. I like Dworkin because he tackles and integrates major ideas in ethics, morality, equality, justice and the “unity of value.” One of his most famous of many books is entitled Justice for Hedgehogs…
