{"id":1556,"date":"2011-01-30T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/hfs-spendmatters-part2_020211\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T09:33:00","slug":"hfs-spendmatters-part2_020211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hfs-spendmatters-part2_020211\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement BPO:  Be careful before sharing your proverbial corporate bedroom with another party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Procurement BPO engagements aren&#8217;t about dating. They&#8217;re about getting married, something we actually think many people don&#8217;t realize. Remember this one point, and your chances of success with procurement BPO will increase on a log scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_6689\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6689 \" title=\"Busch_Oban\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Busch_Oban_HfS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HfS and SpendMatters&#39; Jason Busch team up to discuss procurement BPO marriages<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Never mistake a BPO relationship for advisory or software. You can scrap a consultant&#8217;s deck and trash a software package overnight, but BPO is different. Just as in a marriage, you can&#8217;t fundamentally fix things if they&#8217;re already broken going in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Part II of our Procurement BPO market appraisal with SpendMatters&#8217; Jason Busch (pictured here at a recent HfS strategy session), we get straight to the heart of the issues that buyers need to watch out for when evaluating a Procurement BPO endeavour. \u00a0Essentially, you&#8217;re going to be sharing your proverbial corporate bedroom with a service provider, so you may be wise to read our joint paper &#8220;<em>Designing an Optimal Procurement BPO Program: Process Expertise and Realized Improvement<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0first:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spendmatters.com\/library\/research_detail.cfm?asset_id=22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Click here to download your copy of Part II<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spendmatters.com\/library\/research_detail.cfm?asset_id=20\">Click here if you forgot to download Part I<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procurement BPO engagements aren&#8217;t about dating. 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