Sourcing Complex Services: Challenges, Opportunities and Advice for Consulting, Legal and Marketing Services
Consulting, Marketing, and Legal spend have long been considered impervious to strategic sourcing efforts. But as strategies in other categories have stabilized, the economic downturn has put pressure on anything and everything affecting earnings-per-share, and risk mitigation in third-party contracting has gained in importance. Doors for sourcing are starting to open, even in these high-touch, expertise and relationship-oriented service categories.
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Consulting, Marketing, and Legal spend have long been considered impervious to strategic sourcing efforts. But as strategies in other categories have stabilized, the economic downturn has put pressure on anything and everything affecting earnings-per-share, and risk mitigation in third-party contracting has gained in importance. Doors for sourcing are starting to open, even in these high-touch, expertise and relationship-oriented service categories.