{"id":1570,"date":"2011-01-08T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/tpi-compass-010911\/"},"modified":"2011-01-08T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T21:50:00","slug":"tpi-compass-010911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/tpi-compass-010911\/","title":{"rendered":"TPI + Compass: a new direction for outsourcing advisors, or more of the same?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TPI and Compass: a bold new direction?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
How can enterprises find unbiased coaching, advice and data to help them make the right sourcing decisions, but then also have the expertise they need to transition into a sourcing environment? <\/strong><\/p>\n
The role of consultants claiming to provide these services has been under constant scrutiny in recent years, as the outsourcing of IT and business processes become a mainstream component of organizational strategy.<\/p>\n
Boutique outsourcing advisors have roamed industries for over two decades, providing structured roadmaps for taking enterprises into an outsourcing transaction. \u00a0Enterprises usually bring them in, once the “O” decision is made, to perform the operational tasks necessary to develop a scoping document, find an appropriate provider, negotiate an agreeable price for themselves, and take it to a transaction. Most of these boutiques tend to be small and specialized, existing in a little world of their own where they hobnob with providers, frequent the same events, speak the same language and regurgitate the same slideware year after year, as not a lot really changes in the world of number-crunching outsourcing deals.<\/p>\n
However, in the last couple of years, the major consulting firms have finally realized they need to cater for the demands of an increasing majority of their clients, which have chosen to go down the outsourcing route. \u00a0The results has been too many competitors chasing advisory engagements that enterprises are increasingly finding too costly. \u00a0Hence, the outsourcing advisory market is embarking on a wave of consolidation that is likely to result in a different landscape of competitors by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
The outsourcing advisor consolidation kicks off with TPI and Compass being paired up<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n