‘twas a dark and stormy night when the message came through “find out what’s up in 2012 for sourcing”

The old Source-rer pours out the last glass of egg-nog left over from the festive season, and stares rheumily into his crystal ball, endeavouring to see the future through shrouds of fog....

The meteoric rise of all things Internet and social media related creates vast amounts of unstructured data every hour of every day; facts, figures, opinions, references, page views, click -throughs, likes, tweets & re-tweets, produce terabyte on terabyte of valuable data, together of course with a large amount of inane & unimportant drivel. 

Who are we?

Successful sourcing demands a new way of thinking. Source was established to change the way that outsourcing transactions are undertaken. We believe that with a new approach there can be a positive outcome for everyone involved - the customer and supplier organisations and those individuals touched by the sourcing process.

When one of our amazing team meets someone new and hands them a business card, we are often asked about the quotes on the back. We tell people that "positive" is more than just a word in our logo - it is a way of thinking, of doing business, and of building outsourcing relationships. We love these quotes because they are so relevant to how we work....

In response to Gartner's top 10 IT outsourcing game changers, (http://bit.ly/p62GFW) the source team got our heads together to come up with our view of what was going to change the game in the next 12 months:

Typically a choice of IT outsourcing partner is made by considering players from one of three groups:

So Westfield has finally opened its doors, to mass consumer frenzy. 265 shops, 96 escalators, 20 million projected visitors per annum, 50 places to eat, with 73 awards between them. Big numbers. Big venture. But is bigger always better?

 At Source we believe passionately that outsourcing when carried out in the right way should have a positive impact on every individual and organisation involved in the process. 

The immediate reaction of many people to this position is, “That’s a glib statement, but surely that’s not possible? In any deal there’ll be a winner and a loser”

In the Summer 2011 issue of Outsource (www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk), an anonymous contributor ('writing as Captain America') wrote about his unease at having to avoid discussing his role as an outsourcing professional because of the negative public image of the