By Dave Brown, Partner, KPMG Shared Services and Outsourcing So it’s time to renew one or more of your outsourcing contracts. No, you really wouldn’t rather have a root canal. Renewing or re-competing today is much better than it was a few years ago, so let’s take a quick look at how things have changed. [...]
Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory Marc Stark, Director, Management Consulting, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG released the results of the 2012 edition of the global Legal Pulse survey via a webcast on March 27. This was the third annual edition of the legal Pulse, one of the family of recurring Pulse research studies. [...]
Dave Brown, Principal, KPMG Advisory Services When you established your IT outsourcing agreement, you probably did the deal and put it in a drawer, so it may have been a few years since you’ve thought about IT contracts. But now that your contract is coming up for renewal, how can you make the most of [...]
Nico Boot, Executive Director Europe and Asia Pacific Most organisations make the mistake of drawing up new contracts based on negative experiences in the past. A better way to determine the appropriate option when a contract comes to an end is to carry out the final annual review of the sourcing strategy, look ahead at [...]
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research EquaTerra recently released the results of the 2010 global Legal Pulse survey. In it EquaTerra polled more than 40 of the top third-party North American and European law firms that support and advise buyers on outsourcing efforts. The Legal Pulse is similar to EquaTerra’s long-standing global service provider/advisor Pulse [...]
Stan Lepeak, Managing Director, Global Research EquaTerra will soon release the results of the 2010 global Legal Pulse survey. The 2009 edition focused on European counsel while this year the study was expanded to incorporate feedback from counsel in North America. EquaTerra polled approximately 70 senior legal counsel in more than 40 of the top [...]
Doug Burr, Advisor, Real Estate and Facilities Management Practice I recently participated in negotiations for a $400 million total contract value real estate and facilities management (RE & FM) outsourcing deal. On the plane home I had some time to opine about what I learned from this and other negotiations. Here are a few questions [...]
Dave Brown, Managing Director, Financial Architecture Advisory Services Considering undertaking a benchmarking initiative to evaluate how your cost structure stacks up against the market? First, understand if you really need a benchmark. Many executives feel they need a general read on market pricing and see a benchmark as the only mechanism to obtain the data. [...]
Lee Ayling, Managing Director, EquaTerra UK Information Technology Advisory In the light of the current economic conditions, we asked the respondents of our 1H 2010 UK Pulse Survey* in which ways buyers are changing their approaches regarding outsourcing and global services sourcing efforts. According to service providers, most buyers are reopening contracts to renegotiate pricing [...]
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 [...]