Vested IT Outsourcing Deals Avert A Catch-22 Online commentary by Kate Vitasek in InformationWeek Global CIO. Customers and suppliers say they value innovation, but most outsourcing relationships end up becoming a race to the bottom. In “vested” outsourcing deals, both parties are vested in each other’s success. Here’s the link to the entire column: http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/vested-it-outsourcing-deals-avert-a-catc/240155037
Gaming with Game Theory
May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
What happens when a behavioral ecologist uses a game theory exam to test his students’ proficiency at cheating? Even better, what happens when the same UCLA professor, Peter Nonacs, then confronts his students with a version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma to decide their final grades? Both Nonacs and the students learned important lessons about Game [...]
Outsource Magazine — April 2013
April 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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
Dell’s Journey to Vested Innovation
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Dell is much in the news lately, and for good reason, what with founder Michael S. Dell’s controversial plan to buy out the company and take it private for $24.4 billion coupled with mounting opposition to his plan from no less an eminence than the financier Carl Icahn and other major shareholders. I’m not here [...]
Vested and Value Creation
January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
There’s a short quote about creating value—along with a cute cartoon—that’s gone viral on the internet. It goes like this this: “I met a man with a dollar. We exchanged dollars. We each still had one dollar. Then I met a man with an idea. We exchanged ideas. Now we each have two ideas.” The [...]
Coase: Are Economists Becoming Irrelevant?
December 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Followers of this blog and the “economics of outsourcing” series know how much I admire Ronald Coase and the contributions he has made to economic thought regarding transaction costs, total costs, getting the math right and the emergence of modern outsource contracting. His groundbreaking work, stretching back to the 1930s, shed light on a new [...]
Stephen Covey and Principled Leadership
December 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
As the year winds down I want to pay tribute to someone, who whether you realize it or not probably had a major influence on your life at some point both in personal and professional terms. Stephen Covey—the educator, speaker and businessman, and the author in 1989 of the seminal The Seven Habits of Highly [...]
Leading with Vision Takes…Vision
December 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A recent Fast Company article talks about leading with farsightedness and leaders who are able to articulate possible futures in ways that are compelling and inclusive. The article makes a distinction between leaders and truly visionary, game-changing leaders; we know however that those in the latter category – a Steven Jobs, for example – don’t [...]
Commercial Property Executive — December 2012
December 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
JLL, P&G Reveal Five Rules of Successful Business Relationships Article by Anna Spiewak, published on Dec. 5 Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. and client Procter & Gamble know the secrets to their partnership’s success and they’re not afraid to share them… Here’s the article link: http://www.cpexecutive.com/newsletters/capitalmarkets-newsletter/features/jll-pg-reveal-five-rules-of-successful-outsourcing-relationships/
Supply & Demand Chain Executive — December 2012
December 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Final Thoughts By Natalia Kosk This month, SDCE catches up with Kate Vitasek for an update on the “vested” way… Here’s the link to the interview: http://www.sdcexec.com/article/10825770/supply-chain-final-thoughts
