Outsource Magazine Issue 29 - (Page 74)

GettinG to the real-life win-win Kate Vitasek and the Vested Outsourcing model have been making big waves in outsourcing for the past couple of years – but just what is the model all about, and which companies, if any, have embraced it? Time to find out… Kate Vitasek, University of Tennessee Kate Vitasek is a faculty member of the University of Tennessee’s Centre for Executive Education and an internationally recognised innovator in the practice of supply chain management and outsourcing. fter 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 the sidelines. All too often we hear, “I like the theory of Vested, but does it really work in the real world? Are companies (especially ones people have heard of!) adopting the Vested approach?” Short and simple: the answer is a resounding YES! And we are featuring our favourite cases studies in our latest A book Vested: How P&G, McDonald’s and Microsoft are Redefining Winning in Business Relationships, by myself and Karl Manrodt with Jeanne Kling. Vested is a behind-the-scenes look at the separate and often inspirational journeys that big and small organisations have taken to “vest for success” following the five rules of the Vested approach for developing highly collaborative relationships. So juSt what iS VeSted? The original research leading to the Vested business model was a collaboration among the University of Tennessee (UT), the Twenty-two separate P&G brands each have total global sales of over $1bn. 74 www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk ● ● ● http://www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Outsource Magazine Issue 29

Call Me Maybe?
Optimising Your supplier Portfolio
Application Development Outsourcing
Are You Fat?
The Future of BPO
Digital by Default
The Face of Finance
Procuring Excellence
The Importance of Being Secure
NOA Round-Up
Steering the Flow
Changing Shape
Legal Transformation
Getting to the Real-Life Win-Win
What’s the Point of Outsourcing?
outsourceXplores
Head-to-Head
The Legal View
Top Ten
NelsonHall Round-Up
The Oral Review
Online Round-Up
Inside Source
The Last Word

Outsource Magazine Issue 29