The Big View This isn’t a commentary about how innovation gets buggered up and halted. It does make a soft appeal to Clayton Christensen’s seminal book and his warnings on innovation. Enough marketplace focus on “innovation” has provided sufficient discussion for the subject to be decomposed as a well-formed sequence of different types of creation …
One thing we constantly refer to here, and will continue to do so, is ensuring that how you use Outsourcing supports your overall organisational strategy. Here we’ll look at the application of that strategy to cascade clearly to drivers, outcomes and measures. There are many, many scholarly articles, books and blogs on strategy out there …
Deciding if you should explore outsourcing should start with your business strategy. Surprisingly, many businesses do not have an explicit statement of strategy and a set of initiatives that will realize it. When these businesses decide to pursue outsourcing it is with an idea that they will gain some advantage. These motivations may be from …
Looking back over the last three decades of outsourcing, there are a few trends that emerge. It’s especially obvious to those in the (IT) outsourcing world when you look at the hundreds of agreement that get created or updated each year. Whilst there are many reasons companies look to outsourcing, when looking at it from …