Five Steps to Keeping your Vendor
I started my earlier post Five Steps to Keeping your Business with comparison of an offshoring engagement to a bad marriage: courting, expensive wedding, honeymoon, initial struggles, mundane irritation, aggravated frustration, and bitter divorce. The post touched upon the most important steps vendors should take to keep their business. Now let me cover the buyer’s side. And first let’s discuss a couple reasons for keeping your vendors. Of course if a vendor fails your expectations by a large margin there are not too many reasons for keeping that vendor, if any. If the vendor is perfect the thought of changing them is rather unlikely. (Please do let me know what your vendor is in this case, so far I fail to find one!) The question is relevant to vendors that in general deliver on expectations and sometimes exceed them and yet are in many ways imperfect, sometimes even worse than that. To some degree these reasons for keeping the vendor summarize to “Don’t fix if it’s not broken” – Read more »
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The Pragmatic Outsourcer series consists of 5 volumes, each covering a different phase of the outsourcing process. Volume 1: Making the Decision is available today for your free download. Volumes 2 through 5 will be available during 2010.
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