Why choose to have no MSP/VMS for your contingent labor program? Here are 10 reasons in no particular order: You prefer all aspects of your business be unmanaged. You thrive on chaos and confusion and would suffer a panic attack if things were under control. You consider managing staffing suppliers and processes to be your [...]
Very early in my career, I was given a project by the owners of the staffing company I worked for. Using the company database, I was to track where our applicants came from and where our clients were located. After looking at hundreds of data points and carefully putting a small round sticker (blue for [...]
Words matter because words have explicit and implicit meanings, both of which can convey a positive or negative message. Anything that diminishes the importance of words, and the way they are used, strips language of any real value and reduces words to ambiguous strings of letters. For example, being careful with what we call [...]
By Linden Wolfe, Vice President of Excelsior MS3P Yes, I just made up a word; a combination of redundancy and automation. I have a copyright attorney frantically trying to protect this term in hopes that it will bring as much fanfare and residual income as “Threepeat”. A contradiction? Think again. I see too many technology [...]
I believe there was an intermittent, but gradual, pendulum swing of power away from the people (workers) and into the hands of corporations over the last few decades. Among other things, we saw the waning influence of labor unions and the decline of defined benefit pensions as indicators that companies had started to reject the [...]
A great (and bankrupt) business person once offered this insightful query: “Am I running my business, or is it running me? Or, am I just running around?” Do some intense navel-gazing at your management of contingent labor (or lack thereof), whether outsourced to a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or not, and be viciously honest - [...]
My last article (Are People a Commodity?) addressed the dreadful commoditization of contingent workers (people) and staffing companies (people services). Now, I want to address the fact that the staffing industry, of which I’m a proud member, is culpable in this reality. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, I’ve watched as [...]
I don’t know if it’s a cultural issue, but many companies see people (or at least the staffing companies that provide them critical talent) as a commodity. This type of procurement practice is not only dehumanizing, but it’s hopelessly unhelpful to their organizations. No one is manufacturing quality workers and – surprise! – There is a talent [...]
Some of the world’s largest companies are in on one of procurement’s best-kept secrets: supplier diversity. Supplier diversity is a proactive business strategy encouraging the process of sourcing supplies from minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, service disabled veteran-owned, historically underutilized businesses and SBA-defined small business vendors. fHere are seven reasons why supplier diversity is a best practice that [...]
A comedian once chuckled that 78% of all statistics are made up on the spot. But that’s the ambiguous nature of data. Data by itself is inert - so the important questions are where are we getting our data, is it relevant, and what are we doing with it? After all, with Big Data, quantitative, [...]
