Managing Contingent Talent Suppliers: Is It Time to Change Our Thinking?

A growing, but still uncertain, economy has placed more pressure than ever on today’s contingent workforce suppliers to meet employers’ evolving needs. Companies depend on their ...

A System of Truth: Using BI to Drive QBRs

The Quarterly Business Review (QBR) is a significant opportunity for a supplier and client to sit down and uncover what about the business relationship is working and what is not, and ...

What’s Important for the Future in Healthcare?

Since Ford Motor Company ingeniously determined a more efficient means to manage both horizontal and vertical supply chain logistics decades ago, the technology has moved into most ...

Measuring Up: How to Get More Out of Your VMS Program

It’s the start of a new quarter and for many companies, that means it’s time to gear up for quarterly business reviews. As is common in these reviews, there is a large emphasis ...

Program Essentials: Supplier Management

It ain’t sexy. It ain’t rocket science. And it ain’t new to the industry. But it’s absolutely foundational to any well-run contingent workforce program. PREMIUM RESEARCH: Evolution ...

Sales Managers Have Three Constituencies

MSP-based clients have become an integral part of the staffing industry and are predicted to grow in the near future. This has affected supplier organizational structures and led to ...

Beware the Auction Effect

Contingent workforce program managers are tasked with many things when it comes to managing a contingent worker program. We measure performance of the suppliers based on metrics and ...

Hiring the RIGHT Employees

Anyone who has ever opened a resume with a prospective hire in mind can tell you that hiring is an art and not a science.  Corporations have been hiring and firing people for hundreds ...

Look Beyond the Markup

We all know the standard process to follow with an RFP for contingent labor. First you get the team together, and after a supplier selection process you send out an RFP to the suppliers ...

Getting the “Why?” right in an MSP RFP

Staffing Industry Analysts has provided some great information and tools for thinking about and conducting an RFP process for a managed service provider (MSP). A template for an MSP ...

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