How Statement-of-Work Solutions Can Help Businesses Recover from Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged businesses around the world like never before. Organizational agility been tested, and for many businesses, the types of talent that they require ...
Reaping What You SOW — What Statement of Work Means for Staffing
In the past several years, we’ve witnessed a fundamental shift in the talent management landscape. Large employers, long reliant on the temporary and contract labor provided by staffing ...
Is Your VMS Geared for Complex Project Management?
Boston’s Big Dig has its claim to fame not only as an ambitious and expensive megaproject involving hundreds of third-party vendors – but also for its mismanagement and failures. ...
Organizational Controls That Impact SOW-Based Services — Combining the Chocolate and Peanut Butter of your SOW Program – Part 6
This is the final post of our series on Controlling SOW-Based Services. In the prior posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) we introduced the Control Landscape Map and focused most ...
Let Your Suppliers Specialize
With most contingent workforce programs, benchmarking is a great place to start in order to identify savings opportunities. It makes sense. You know a job category in your location ...
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 ...
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 ...
