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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO

Magnus Kuchler, country managing partner for EY Sweden, explains how organizations make the shift to measuring outcomes under the Vested methodology: “The conventional approach to measuring success is to have dozens — if not hundreds — of detailed service level measures. Outsourcing, Vendor Management

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

PL and CM: Walmart and Pfizer’s former consumer healthcare division are a couple of great case studies in capabilities coherence. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital.

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SAP HANA Migration: 3 Steps to a Successful Transition

Protera

RHEL has a more complicated model — the OS is licensed separately from other components you’ll need, such as networking, high-availability, and storage. You may also be negotiating licenses with third-party software vendors, cloud vendors, managed services partners, hardware providers, and other vendors.

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