Hopefully you were able to attend the December Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call with Kate Vitasek last month. We had a lively discussion centered around the paper she co-wrote - “Unpacking Oliver - 10 Lessons to Improve Collaborative Outsourcing “ (download here). Nobel Laureate Dr Oliver Williamson’s work dug into the incentives [...]

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Kate Vitasek, who literally wrote the book on Vested Outsourcing and spoke on that topic on a Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn Group member call earlier this year, has volunteered to lead our Nov/Dec Group member call to discuss…
“Unpacking Oliver - 10 Lessons to Improve Collaborative Outsourcing “
The paper (which you’ll want to download here [...]

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Friday’s group discussion on Vested Outsourcing led by University of Tennessee faculty member Kate Vitasek went very well. For anyone unfamiliar with her work, Kate literally wrote the book on Vested Outsourcing, a model that utilizes incentives to create more strategic relationships between buying organizations and their outsourcing vendors. So when she stepped up and [...]

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Last month, the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn hosted our 1st Group conference call. Things got off to a great start with Chris Sawchuk leading a discussion on “key issues” in 2010.
Now, for our February call…
Kate Vitasek, who literally wrote the book on “Vested Outsourcing”, will be leading the discussion. So, come armed [...]

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Over the last several decades, supply chains in retail have become increasingly complicated with more players and more “links in the chain.” Retailers around the world are increasingly dependent on outside parties for some of their most critical supply chain functions like fulfillment and distribution. And while this has allowed retailers to focus on [...]

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