Recent projections indicate that the managed services program (MSP) market is growing at a robust pace – and isn’t likely to slow down anytime soon. In fact, global spending under ...

In my 20 exciting years working in the contingent (external) workforce space, I have seen the most dramatic shifts recently. After one of the largest recessions in US history, we are ...

For the past decade, the staffing business has shifted quite dramatically to the utilization of managed service providers, better known as MSPs. We all know and understand why, from ...

If ever there was a negative stigma placed on the external workforce, it’s disappearing now as business leaders recognize the many benefits of incorporating niche, specialized skill ...

Do you remember playing the game “Telephone” when you were a young child? It went something like this: A teacher would have her students gather around in a circle right next to ...

In major league baseball, a hitter who fails seven out of ten times will become a multi-millionaire and oftentimes make the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, in IT staff augmentation fill ...

One thing the staffing industry has a lot of is data. The problem today is it’s mostly unstructured; CVs sit on redundant legacy databases, interview notes and feedback tends to be ...

Client or prospect, target or customer? Which is it? Would you believe both? In the ever-expanding universe of the MSP model, once very delineated parts of the staffing industry are now ...

The world of contingent staffing is black and white. There is no gray. There are staffing firms that embrace managed service provider (MSP) programs (such as those managed by companies ...

A recent Staffing Industry Analysts report cited 20 percent Canadian market penetration of master service provider (MSP) programs. While this number is much smaller than the 50 percent ...