Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing - Hardcover

Vitasek, Kate; Ledyard, Mike; Manrodt, Karl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230623174 ISBN 13: 9780230623170

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

Change is the new status quo in today’s business world. New smart, lean and more efficient methods for increasing a company’s market share and top line have been created, and the adoption of their methods and practices will be the differentiator between growth or failure in this new business environment.

In Vested Outsourcing, supply-chain innovator and lead researcher Kate Vitasek has created a new business model that will transform outsourcing procedures the way business management strategies Six Sigma and Lean improved production processes in the 1980s and 90s. Based on a research study by the University of Tennessee with the United States Air force, Vitasek has identified the top 10 critical (and often invisible) flaws inherent in almost all outsourced business relationships. She then shows organizations how to reinvent their outsourcing relationships to ignite innovation, improve service, lower costs and increase profit.

www.vestedoutsourcing.com

About this title

About the Author:

Kate Vitasek is the founder and managing partner of Supply Chain Visions and a faculty member at the University of Tennessee's Center for Executive Education.

Review:

Vested Outsourcing was listed  by The Outsourcing MBA  as the Number 1 book of "The top 10 books every MBA should read on outsourcing"

Vested Outsourcing was list as the Number 1 book on the Texas Wesleyen University best seller's list of "Best Selling Academic Books" 

“ In the outsourcing world, a genuinely new concept  comes along only once every 10 years or so. I believe Vested Outsourcing is one of them.”

Cliff Lynch –author of Logistics Outsourcing: A Management Guide

“Vested Outsourcing is new business model that will transform outsourcing procedures the way business management strategies Lean and Six Sigma transformed manufacturing.”

Elizabeth Kanna – author and creator of several market-defining books


“Vested Outsourcing is a game-changing approach that will quickly become the new gold standard for advanced outsourcing relationships. It is a critical enabler for Outsourcing 2.0.”

Frank Casale – CEO, Outsourcing Institute

“Vested Outsourcing nails how to get collaboration right.”

Todd Shire – Global Logistics Sourcing Strategy Manager, Intel

“Applying Vested Outsourcing’s Five Rules has the power to change the game of outsourcing.”

Tim McBride –Chief Procurement Officer, Microsoft

“For those involved in outsourcing, or selling to those who outsource, this book should be required reading.” 
Kenneth B. Ackerman–Ackerman Warehousing Forum  “A unique book on many levels . . . surprisingly detailed, yet easy concept book to read. I read the book in a single sitting. I predict that, as a concept, vested outsourcing will take its place alongside the six sigma quality concept and the lean operations concept in future business communications as well as conferences.”   George A. Gecowets–Founder and former CEO of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230623174
• ISBN 13: 9780230623170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208