Kick off the New Year with a BPO Contract Review, Part 2

By Marc Tanowitz Last week, we examined how most outsourcing contracts contain provisions that are to be completed post contract execution, require periodic updates, or simply vary over time. It is important to take a close look at these “active” ...

Kick off the New Year with a BPO Contract Review, Part 1

By Marc Tanowitz Most outsourcing contracts contain provisions that are to be completed post contract execution, require periodic updates, or simply vary over time. As we kick off 2012, the time is right to take a close look at these ...

Getting the Most from SLA Performance Targets

By Marc Tanowitz Last week, we explained the basics of service level agreements (SLAs) and how crucial they are to measuring the performance of BPO providers. This week, we will delve more deeply into how to obtain the most benefit ...

Creating Meaningful and Effective Service Level Agreements

By Marc Tanowitz As outsourcing buyers use service levels to measure the performance of a provider, service level agreements (SLAs) are one of the buyer’s fundamental vendor-performance management activities. An SLA’s agreed-upon quantitative provider requirements establish the baseline performance levels ...