New Webinar: The New Age of Services Procurement – It’s not just about...
Best-in-Class Strategies Yield Higher Savings, Better Compliance, & More Successful Projects Sign up today for a new webinar featuring Christopher Dwyer from the Aberdeen Group. Date & Time:...
View ArticleVested Outsourcing and Better SOW
Vested outsourcing and SOW management provide significant opportunity for greater savings and better results due to the fact that they inherently focus on solutions and results instead of just focusing...
View ArticleIQNavigator Among the Most Capable VMS and MSP Providers According to New...
IQNavigator Received High Scores for Both VMS and MSP Capabilities Across 160+ Categories in Industry Leading Report DENVER, January 20, 2012 – IQNavigator Inc., a leading provider of services...
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Philosophical Friday… Is Services Procurement category management worth more...
If you have a passion for services procurement (and who doesn’t ), it is tempting to think really big about the future state of the profession and the possibilities that lie ahead: a single category...
View ArticleManaging Spend is Different from Managing Workers
See Part I of this series… At several points along the services continuum, spend management most certainly does diverge from management of workers. Consulting services, one of the SOW service...
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Philosophical Friday: The days of hiding headcount on SOW are gone
It used to be that automation for non-employee workers only existed to capture and manage contingent workers. For a lot of organizations this left the unmanaged, unmonitored paper & ink SOW back...
View ArticlePhilosophical Friday: The impact of program management on SOW services
A couple of weeks ago, in a blog post titled Is Managing Spend the Same as Managing Workers? I attributed the near perfect synchronicity between temporary labor spend and temporary labor resources to...
View ArticleProcurement’s Solution of Choice
In a prior post I reviewed the advent of program management (i.e. the concurrent use of VMS + MSP) as the emerging category management solution for indirect spend. We cited a recent Aberdeen study...
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SOW a Hot Topic at ProcureCon Indirect
IQNavigator joined several partners and clients in attending the ProcureCon Indirect East conference in Charlotte, NC last month. IQNavigator conducted two roundtable sessions on Controlling Statement...
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Philosophical Friday: Project Management Parallels with Sourcing
The maturity of an organization’s project management capabilities is sometimes a fair predictor of that organization’s sourcing capabilities. The logic goes like this: If an organization recognizes the...
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WSJ: Out of Control SOW and the 400% Markup
A recent Wall Street Journal article, Dispute Arises Over Cost of Temp-Help Lawyers, highlights the importance of managing Professional Services spend more closely. The article is also a good...
View ArticleSourcing Talk: The SOW Expansion Path
In my role as IQNavigator’s Services Procurement Practice Director I work closely with our existing customers to explore expanding their contingent labor programs to include statement of work (SOW)...
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