A better way to resolve business conflicts

Written by Anoop Sagoo, Jeremy Oates & Mary Lacity

Having a realistic perspective that life is not perfect is a good thing—whether you’re a service provider or a client. The ability to settle the smaller issues promptly and productively lays the groundwork for dealing with more serious, potentially deal-breaking problems that may arise down the road.

The number of strategic alliances across most industries, for example, has grown steadily over the past decade.

And a recent study has shown that 60 percent of companies worldwide now deploy outsourcing as a standard practice; an additional 19 percent say outsourcing is definitely in their future. Continue reading

10 Things Leaders Should Never Do

written by Steve Tobak

What causes executives and business leaders with great potential to self-destruct? Their own behavior.

If you ask 10 CEOs, board directors, and VCs about the most preventable causes of failure for executives and business leaders, you’ll probably get 10 different answers. Most will focus on lack of skills, capabilities, or experience. Continue reading

Inside with Alan Hanson, Sr. Vice President , Neo Group

LJ: Would you please share with us your current role & responsibilities.

AH:  As Senior Vice President, I lead our solutions, sales and marketing globally. Neo Group provides Globalization Advisory, Governance Solutions, and Supplier and Location risk analytics and monitoring services.  All three areas are growing and the supplier risk and analytics services are particularly critical in the market these days as clients turn there attention to meeting regulatory demands and their vendor management objectives of better managing their global operations. Continue reading