Vested Outsourcing:
Five Rules that Transform Outsourcing Relationships

Overview
Many outsourcing deals are structured with fundamental flaws in the business model that prevent transformational results. The problem is not outsourcing itself, but rather the outsourcing business model. The vast majority of outsourcing deals are structured using a conventional transactional business model. This buy-sell transactional mindset pits buyers and suppliers across the table in a virtual tug-of-war when business needs change.
Join Kate in her evocative and edutaining Vested Outsourcing keynote where she will share how to flip the conventional outsourcing approach on its head with her award-winning Vested Outsourcing business model. You will learn how to align the interest between a buyer and supplier with Five Rules. The result? A highly collaborative win-win outsourcing relationship where the parties are vested in each other’s success. Walk away inspired by the art of the possible when outsourcing and learn from real case studies from those making the switch to Vested Outsourcing.
Kate Delivers
University of Tennessee supply chain professor Kate Vitasek —lauded by World Trade Magazine as one of the Fabulous 50+1 most influential people impacting global commerce—is an international authority on outsourcing. Her pioneering research on Vested Outsourcing has sparked a movement to flip conventional outsourcing on its head with over 10,000 people from over 500 companies taking her Executive Education courses with dozens who have gone on to achieve award-winning results from their outsourcing partners.
Outcomes
Attendees leave:
- Knowing what Vested Outsourcing is—and why outsourcing does not have to be a dirty word
- Understanding the Five Rules of Vested Outsourcing and how they help organizations shift from transactional to transformational outsourcing
- Inspired by real stories from real companies with real results
- Motivated to rethink how they are working with outsourcing partners