Inside Outsource Consulting

Turn-key outsourcing governance

To achieve a successful, highly functioning global team, responsibility and accountability for performance has to be shared between both sides of a partnership. Inside Outsource Consulting can help your enterprise achieve this, by acting as your sourcing office, and helping you build expertise in governing complex outsourced partnerships.

This consulting offering builds a framework for performance measurement and analysis that places equal emphasis on client and vendor. It delivers a custom-tailored measurement framework, analyzing performance objectively from a neutral point of view. This quarter-long engagement begins with a review of contractual terms, existing teams, and any performance monitoring or measurement in place. Through in-depth interviews with each of the teams, we determine business drivers, explore trouble areas, and lay out measurable, objective performance goals for a three month period of time.

These goals are reviewed at each team level, and at aggregate levels. Senior managers on both sides of the engagement are delivered a roll-up of the goals, and a candid and private discussion of any hot spots. Once ratified, the goals are socialized with the entire extended team through a facilitated all-hands session. Using interviews and inspection of work products, a mid-quarter check-point is performed, and a report is delivered highlighting any necessary course correction.

At the end of the measurement period, a detailed inspection of performance and work products is performed. A report is delivered privately to both client and vendor senior management, and a joint performance analysis meeting is facilitated and held. To close the assessment period, a second all-hands meeting is facilitated, to communicate the results of the performance assessment with the team.


Contact Inside Outsource Consulting to talk in more depth about this approach to governance, or a custom-developed approach right for your business.

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