SOW management: The hidden value proposition
Project management knowledge is a key, but not commonly employed, statement-of-work management initiative practice.
If you build it, they may not come
The best-designed program will flop if stakeholders don’t embrace it. How to predict — and improve — the likelihood of program adoption.
Buyers bullish about contingent worker usage
Strong buyer appetite to increase the use of outsourced workers, SOW workers and freelancers over the next 10 years.
Don’t fire your suppliers — Update SLAs
Before assuming the worst when suppliers seem to be performing poorly, consider how the program’s needs may have evolved from the initial service-level agreement.
Up your SOW game
Contingent workforce program managers can enhance the value of an SOW engagement by adding project management and domain expertise to their quiver.
Portion of SOW workers among CW grows
As part of our annual Workforce Solutions Buyer Survey, we ask large (1,000+ employees) companies in North America to break down their contingent workforce by worker type.
A new paradigm
When incorporating SOW into the CW program, it’s important to understand the effect a change of this nature will have on your engagement managers.
Close the loop
Justifying bringing statement-of-work contracts into your centralized management program.
No co-employment in SOW, done right
Joint employment does not exist in a — properly managed-- SOW engagement because of the business-to--business nature of the transaction.
Defining the SOW management operation business model
After defining strategically why a statement-of-work management practice should reside in a contingent workforce program, the next question to be answered is exactly what that SOW management practice will be.
