Combining the Chocolate and Peanut Butter of your SOW Program – Part 3: Making the Value Case for Pre-Award Controls

In Part 2, we made the connection between spend data visibility as an enabler to sourcing value and demonstrated the impact that visibility has on control effectiveness. In this post, ...

Combining the Chocolate and Peanut Butter of your SOW Program – Part 1

“What does controlling SOW-based services spend mean to you?” That was the seemingly straightforward question I asked of two separate audiences at a procurement conference recently. ...

Can Your VMS REALLY Support Your Project Services Spend?

For the past few years, the “hot topic” in the contingent workforce industry has been the management of Statement of Work (SOW) project services.  We have all read the statistics.  ...

Managing SOW Through VMS Delivers Better Results

VMS analytics and reporting have the power to turn even the most cynical CIO into a believer. Look at what the VMS gets you: cost savings driven by using only authorized vendors,  the ...

You Reap What You SOW

If you’re looking for comforting words, the phrase “contractually obligated” doesn’t usually fill you with warmth and friendship. It seems to imply a bit of frustration — ...

Strong SOW Management Is Key to Project Success

There are more than 33 million professionals who comprise the non-employee workforce in the U.S., representing more than $250 billion in project spend. Unfortunately, many of these ...

The Contingent Workforce Needs HR’s Attention

Many companies spend a great deal of effort on strategic planning for recruiting, training and retention of their permanent workforce. However, it is apparent that the contingent workforce ...

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