multisourcing
Painpoints of Organisations That Should Be Moving Towards a Multisourcing Procurement Model
White Paper In spite of continued growth, an analysis of the outsourcing business in recent years reveals growing discontent with their sourcing relationships amongst clients. Increasingly, outsourcing agreements are being cancelled, not renewed or... [23 Mar 2009]
Is outsourcing too risky?
Comment Supplier management role is made more complicated by multisourcing - this is where a company deals with a range of outsourcers to handle different functions rather than a single partner who delivers the whole package. [23 Jul 2007]
UK IT industry to take another dive
News Multisourcing: an end to the 'unisourcer' and the use of consortia promising the best of breed to users and spreading the risk amongst suppliers. Things are continuing to get worse for the UK's software and services... [13 Jun 2003]
City becoming wary of large outsourcers?
News But in a recent interview, Ismail Amla, senior VP at CSC UK, pointed out 'smart sourcing' - also commonly known as 'multisourcing' - is the way forward, as it involves several partners normally with different areas of... [22 May 2003]
MoD's DII - another day in outsourcing for CSC, BT and co
News The days of the onesource mega-deal are disappearing to be replaced by a multisourcing approach where each party provides its services on a best of breed approach," he said. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is to lead... [20 May 2003]
BT the outsourcer: 'It's not stupid for a customer to think we can run their infrastructure'
News One of the key trends to be emerging in the outsourcing world at the moment is the idea of 'multisourcing', where there may be a lead company for a large project but a user organisation can have relationships with... [24 Apr 2003]
Sainsbury's looks to halve costs by using Accenture, BT and co
News The deal falls into the increasingly common category of 'multisourcing', where a user has a relationship with several companies handling its IT and communications rather than a lead vendor that subcontracts. [23 Apr 2003]
Half of IT outsourcing projects fail, says Gartner
News However, Gartner analysts said that through 2004, "multisourcing" will remain the dominant strategy, and 40 per cent of large companies will adopt a prime or general contractor to manage the external service provider... [26 Mar 2003]