Thomas Hall, Managing Director, Contract Negotiations Advisory Third-party assurance reports provide customers of outsourced services with information about the internal controls maintained by their provider’s delivery organization. Historically, the control standards set forth by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in Statement on Standards No. 70 (SAS 70) have been most commonly applied [...]

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Jerry Klawitter, IT Practice Project Director, EquaTerra A client of mine shared with me recently the results of an interview he conducted with a technologist from another firm which had outsourced all of its IT, and then recently insourced it all. After I regained my composure, I realized this was a story the masses needed [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, EquaTerra Global Research Thomas Hall, Managing Director, EquaTerra Contract Negotiations Advisory On March 5, 2010, EquaTerra released the inaugural edition of its legal Pulse survey, the newest iteration of the Pulse survey research program. The legal Pulse is similar to EquaTerra’s long-standing global service provider/advisor Pulse in that it examines trends [...]

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Tim Amatt, EquaTerra Project Director I recently had the opportunity to speak on the subject of governance to a large group of representatives from a number of leading service provider organisations. This was a great opportunity to discuss a subject which is unfortunately viewed by some as an add-on, or an afterthought, when service providers [...]

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Stan Lepeak, Managing Director EquaTerra Global Research On March 5, 2010, EquaTerra released the inaugural edition of its legal Pulse survey, the newest iteration of the Pulse survey research program. EquaTerra polled senior legal counsel in 25 of the top third-party European law firms that support and advise buyers on outsourcing efforts. The legal Pulse [...]

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Lee Ayling, EquaTerra Managing Director of Information Technology (IT) Advisory Services, UK The  second  in a pair of blogs where I look at sole-sourcing from the perspective of the service provider: On 2 March 2010, EquaTerra held its first advisor relations briefing event in London.  At that event, a discussion about the traits of a [...]

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Lee Ayling, EquaTerra Managing Director of Information Technology (IT) Advisory Services, UK The first in a pair of blogs, I here begin a look at sole-sourcing, an increasingly popular method of services procurement, from the perspective of the service provider. What? Sole source is not, as it is easy to assume, a short cut to [...]

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When it comes to contract negotiations, you can never be too prepared. Here are four tips to help you improve your position with your service provider.

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