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The Mosaic: seeing the bigger picture (Part 3)

Posted: 04/28/2016 - 03:59

After lunch, the group assembled back in the conference room. Most spent some time reading through the poster on the wall, looking for more clues to help them improve.

“Ready to get started,” I said, as the group grabbed their seats.

“On to people,” Tyler announced, with a tone indicating he could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

“Yes, on to the ‘People’ column in the mosaic. Just as we defined who your key customers are, we need to define the key positions and roles in your company.”

The Mosaic: seeing the bigger picture (Part 2)

Posted: 04/21/2016 - 20:30

To read the first part of this article, click here.


Walking into the conference room the following week, I bumped into Jenny and Alex, two regional managers who worked for Tyler.

“Good morning.”

“Hi there, Dean,” Jenny said, smiling and walking over.

“Just looking over the big poster,” Alex said.

“You mean the mosaic, Alex,” Jenny said, correcting him.

Ready, aim... Don't shoot the messenger!

Posted: 03/11/2016 - 20:53

Every once in a while I come across a situation marked with incongruous and unexpected elements that, when summed up, can only be labelled as completely bizarre. One such situation started in the boardroom of Walker Ideas, a very successful inside-outsourcing service provider to the food industry. Walker operates at dozens of facilities dedicated to performing services that their customers strategically exited. As such, Walker is a key partner to their customers, or so they allow themselves to believe.

Outsourcers in the UK: not too big to fail...

Posted: 02/13/2016 - 09:22

The Commercial Court ruling in BT Cornwall Limited v Cornwall Council and Others is a sharp reminder that if an outsourced service provider does not provide the service it has promised to provide, to the standard it has promised, it should not expect the customer to allow the contract, however large and multi-faceted, to continue. Put another way, the customer is almost always right.

How ITO pricing models will change through 2016

Posted: 01/25/2016 - 21:35

It wasn’t all too long ago that pricing models offered by information technology outsourcing (ITO) services and firms fell strictly into the “static” category. In fact, thinking of these agreements as anything but fixed or rigid in nature simply didn’t make much sense based on the layout of the outsourcing landscape. Customers requested a certain type of IT or software development and service providers fit this requisition into an inelastic pricing structure that had little room for change or adaptability.

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