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 ...
Seizing SOW Opportunity
With many companies hiring at a tepid pace or on a freeze, staffing professionals find themselves searching for their next source of business. If you offer contract services to your ...
The Data You Need to Become a More Strategic Procurement Leader
Did you hear the latest weather report? Meteorologists are predicting continual blizzards, with limited visibility from swirling winds. They’re appearing everywhere procurement professionals ...
The Cost of Mismanaged IT Projects
The universal pain point in technology projects today is missing target delivery dates – and it is a struggle for many organizations. Features have evolved to become the new focus ...
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. ...
Look Past Your Current Needs When Selecting a VMS
Up until the last year or so the scope of requests received for IQNavigator’s vendor management software (VMS) predominantly queried our support of contingent or temporary labor spend. ...
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 ...
The Control Solution: Simple, Yet Complicated: Combining the Chocolate and Peanut Butter of your SOW Program – Part 5
The control activities to protect against the SOW engagement risks noted in Part 4 are fairly simple and straight forward:
Document the commercial terms in the SOW / contract;
Compare ...
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 ...
