{"id":4626,"date":"2008-08-20T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/the-calamity-clients-awards-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T21:30:00","slug":"the-calamity-clients-awards-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/the-calamity-clients-awards-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calamity Clients Awards, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A style=\"FLOAT: right\" href=\"http:\/\/fersht.typepad.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"at-xid-6a00d8356fb76c69e200e553fab8328833 \" title=Calamity_Client2 alt=Calamity_Client2 src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/images\/6a00d8356fb76c69e200e553fab8328833-800wi.jpg\" border=0><\/A> <A style=\"FLOAT: right\" href=\"http:\/\/fersht.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8356fb76c69e200e553fa9f688833-pi.jpg\"><\/A>Due to popular demand,&nbsp;we&#8217;re adding an additional&nbsp;category&nbsp;to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2008\/08\/the-horses-awards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2008 Horses awards for Awful Outsourcing<\/A>:&nbsp; &#8220;The Calamity Clients&#8221;.&nbsp; Yes, it&#8217;s not always vendors which are responsible for outsourcing calamity &#8211; it often takes two to tango, and this is the vendor&#8217;s chance to&nbsp;counter-punch.&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>As there are several&nbsp;well-trodden paths&nbsp;towards calamitous outsourcing, we will be distributing several awards across the following non-specialist areas:<EM> <\/EM><\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p><\/P><br \/>\n<P><em>The Multisourcing-mayhem maestro<\/em><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Did your client get a bit too clever and decide to multi-source to everyone under-the-sun with no idea how to manage the pandemonium?&nbsp; Then nominate&nbsp;your little multi-source maestro&#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><em>Governance-goulash<\/em><\/P><br \/>\n<P>No idea what they&#8217;re doing?&nbsp; They think a service level is a button in the elevator?&nbsp; Oh dear&#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><em>The Bring-it-Back buccaneer<\/em><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Client trying to bring back half the stuff they tasked you with from day-one&#8230; ended up re-hiring half the department?&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P><em>HRO-hellraiser<\/em><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Your HRO client thinks HRO&nbsp;stands for &#8220;<em>Hell-Raising Outsourcing<\/em>&#8220;?&nbsp; Their HR execs&nbsp;spending their entire existence trying to hang you out to dry?&nbsp; You&#8217;re not alone&#8230;<\/P><br \/>\n<P><em>The Pricing-poker protagonist<\/em><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Getting squeezed by some CFO who thinks contract negotiation is like procuring a Persian rug?&nbsp;&nbsp;You suspect he&nbsp;spent his youth pulling off the legs from spiders&#8230;<em>one-by-one<\/em>?&nbsp; Your margins getting a closer shave than Roger and Tiger combined?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You know what to do&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to popular demand,&nbsp;we&#8217;re adding an additional&nbsp;category&nbsp;to the 2008 Horses awards for Awful Outsourcing:&nbsp; &#8220;The Calamity Clients&#8221;.&nbsp; Yes, it&#8217;s not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absolutely-meaningless-comedy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - 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