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Year archives: 2001

The Seven Deadly Negotiating Sins

Brad L. Peterson, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP

An outsourcing negotiation is a complex endeavor, with interwoven financial, technical, performance, people, and legal issues. However, after boiling it all down, there are seven very common mistakes both vendors and customers make in negotiating outsourcing contracts. This article will help you spot those mistakes. Then you can correct them in your own negotiating team and exploit them in the other side’s negotiation.

Value Drivers

John Higgins, Senior Consultant

In difficult economic times, corporations seek to improve their financial performance. One way to do this is to understand value creation. This is a technique that helps companies improve their product quality, financial performance, customer satisfaction or time to market.

Aberdeen Group Research Report:

Outsourcing Center, Beth Ellyn Rosenthal, Senior Writer

The U.S. still dominates the global ASP market, according to a new Aberdeen Group report, Worldwide ASP Spending. Forecast and Analysis 2001-2005. Today, American ASPs are capturing two-thirds of the $3 billion spent on ASP services.

Outsourcing Disease Management Services Helps Patients and Payers

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

In contrast to an ailment like diabetes or asthma, where there are significant numbers of patients and the prevalence of the ailment is quite high, Accordant Health Services focuses on complex, chronic diseases that require ongoing, specialized care whose patient population prevalence is low. Although Accordant currently handles disease management for approximately 10,400 patients across numerous health plans, this constitutes less than one percent prevalence among the total patient population of these health plans.

Beyond our Shining Seas

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

To succeed in the United States, you have to do everything right from A – M. But to go international, you have to do everything right from A – Z. A lot of factors come into play that are not present in a domestic market, says David Cisneros, sales and marketing manager for Western Export Services, Inc.

When Employee Satisfaction is Key

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

Deutsche Bank, with commercial banking and investment bank services, aims to be one of the world’s leading investment banks. And it depends on its employees to make that happen. Since it relies on employee competence and commitment to excellence in customer service, Deutsche Bank makes every effort to attract and retain the best talent and to become the employer of choice.

Outsourcing Customer Interaction Management

Jerri L. Ledford, Business Writer

Before Del Monte Foods decided to outsource its customer interaction management, the company held yearly sales meetings. Representatives received five-inch binders filled with information about products, clients, and company information. The system proved to be very ineffective because it was time consuming, and the information became out of date long before new binders were issued. \x0d\x0aThen Del Monte began using outsourced Marketing and Sales Effectiveness (MSE) tools from Proscape Technologies.

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Outsourcing Center, Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer

As healthcare professionals strive to focus on their core competencies and become more efficient and cost-effective, they turn to outsourcing as a solution. Buenaventura Medical Group (BMG), a 50-doctor, multi-specialty group with five locations and 100,000 patients, made that decision five years ago. In efforts to stay ahead of their competition, they realized that printing and mailing their patient statements was sorely in need of process improvement.

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