First, let’s start with a definition of MSP.  According to the Staffing Industry Analysts: Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a service whereby a company takes on primary responsibility ...

You have just learned that the company providing your contingent workforce vendor management system (VMS) has been acquired. What impact will that have on you? The sad truth is that ...

Many companies assume that insourcing a contingent workforce management program is a simple way to cut costs. After all, a mature program has gone through any necessary growing pains ...

Why do managed service providers and consultants with no staffing subsidiaries or affiliation, and thus, no ability to fill positions in a managed staffing program, insist that they ...

The decision to implement a managed services program (MSP), or to replace an existing MSP vendor, should not be taken lightly. Your workforce is the heartbeat of an organization and ...

As president of workforce solutions for AMN Healthcare, I take exception with Colleen Mills’ recent blog post, Why Small Healthcare Staffing Firms Should Take a Stand on VMS/MSP. ...

Seventy-Five. That’s the percentage of Fortune 1000 corporations, in a recent survey, that either are currently, or plan to manage their contingent labor spend through a VMS platform ...

A recent post in The Staffing Stream about MSPs suggests that the success of the MSP model is intrinsically linked to large staffing agencies, and vendor neutrality is an unprofitable ...

On Feb. 18, the Staffing Industry Daily News featured a comment made by Randstad Chairman and CEO Ben Noteboom  during a conference call with analysts. Here, Noteboom clarifies his ...

I was having a conversation a few days back with a former colleague around our favorite topic, contingent workforce solutions. We tossed around ideas that would surely revolutionize ...