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Is IBM trying to kill benchmarking by patenting it?
Outsourcing contracts can set you and your provider up for a beautiful friendship or a bad marriage. The performance clauses you put in the contract will determine your degree of happiness.
Benchmarking works best when it's used to ensure competitive pricing over the term of a contract, not as a device to wring every last cent out of an outsourcer.
Benchmarking your outsourcer's prices against the market is the best lever you have to save money. Too bad your outsourcer may be trying to stop you.
In Boeing's high-stakes rivalry with Airbusu2014what the author calls the "greatest international competition in business" u2014 outsourcing to Asia helps Boeing sell more airplanes. But at what cost?
One of the mantras reverberating through the halls of Americau2019s universities is that business is global. But what does that really mean?
A rational look at Lean + Six Sigma for what they are, and are not, supposed to do.
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