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Healthcare services procurement solution Medpricer becomes Conductiv — and expands scope - [PRO Content]
July 15, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
The third-party services procurement solution provider Medpricer recently announced its rebranding and its name change to Conductiv. The company also announced the addition of new offerings. Conductiv is owned by Premier Inc. but operates as an independent business entity, with its own branding, product line and market strategy. Partly based on a recent conversation with…
An Executive’s Guide to Direct Sourcing of Contract Work/Services (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
July 13, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Direct sourcing of work/services, in the simplest terms, means sourcing workers/providers without traditional intermediaries like a recruiting firm or temporary staffing agency. It is not a new practice, but over the past several years, it has become something significantly different than what it was 10 years ago. While direct sourcing — particularly of permanent workers…
Spend Matters previews Everest Group’s contingent workforce management (CWM) best-practices study - [PRO Content]
June 29, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
The management consultant and research firm Everest Group recently conducted a survey to get a clearer picture of how well organizations manage their contingent workforces, what practices they have adopted and to what extent. Spend Matters assisted in the survey design, and Everest Group completed the survey and analyzed the data using its Pinnacle Model…
Extended Workforce Tracking Solutions: Can They Fill Your Gap in Visibility, Control? (Part 3) — Analyst Perspective - [PRO Content]
June 17, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Today, we’ll take a big-picture view of the sector for extended workforce tracking solutions, and we’ll offer some tech selection considerations. Part 1 of this three-part Spend Matters PRO series outlined the three general types of potential solutions (VMS, FMS and EWS, extended workforce systems). And Part 2 presented overviews of three providers/solutions that gave…
Extended Workforce Tracking Solutions: Can They Fill Your Gap in Visibility, Control? (Part 2) — A Look at 3 Providers - [PRO Content]
June 16, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
In Part 1 of this three-part Spend Matters PRO series, we asserted that amid the COVID-19 crisis, some organizations may be focusing their attention on and gaining visibility into their external or extended workforces (comprised of temporary staffing workers, independent contract workers and service provider workers). Considering that business practitioners might be thinking about available…
Extended Workforce Tracking Solutions: Can They Fill Your Gap in Visibility, Control? (Part 1) — Landscape Overview - [PRO Content]
June 15, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
As the economy begins to tentatively lurch forward amid the coronavirus disruption, and large and midsize organizations begin to reconstitute their workforces and supplier relationships for a new normal business environment, we may see an adjustment of focus on their flexible, non-employee workforces. We do not know what organizations’ extended workforces (a mix of temporary…
Specialist Providers of Extended Workforce Rate Benchmarking and Analytics — Series Wrap-Up - [PRO Content]
May 14, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Back in December, we initiated a five-part series with a brief titled A new species: Specialist providers of contingent workforce rate benchmarking/analytics. In that brief, we identified three third-party (standalone, vendor-neutral) providers that are, broadly speaking, data management and analytics providers and establishing a framework for analyzing providers, capabilities and services from a business-buyer standpoint.…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Workforce data and analytics in a time of crisis - [PRO Content]
April 28, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
In the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) category of Spend Matters’ Coronavirus Response series, our focus has been on solutions that are able to, at a minimum, help rapidly ramp up extended workforce to deal with resource shortfalls as well as manage and track as well as track and manage external workers, projects and services…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Contingent Workforce/Services — Can direct sourcing of work and services help in this crisis? - [PRO Content]
April 27, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
In the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) category of Spend Matters’ Coronavirus Response series, our focus has been on solutions that are able to, at a minimum, help rapidly ramp up extended workforce to deal with resource shortfalls as well as manage and track external workers, projects and services providers. We are examining four categories…
Brightfield (TDX): Vendor Analysis — Solution Overview, SWOT, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
April 24, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Introduction offers a candid take on Brightfield (TDX) and its capabilities. Brightfield provides enterprises with an extended workforce data-management and analytics solution (at this time, specifically enterprises that are highly focused on “digital” contract workers and SOW/services). This brief includes an overview of Brightfield and its solution offerings, a summary…
Coronavirus affects the world of work (Part 2): Facing the next phase of the crisis - [PRO Content]
April 16, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Part 2 of this Spend Matters PRO series will focus on where things stand with the coronavirus crisis about a month since many countries and most U.S. states issued stay-at-home orders. It also has been about a month since the publication of Part 1 of this series. Now, governments are considering plans for “re-opening” the…
How KellyOCG is transforming its approach to workforce and services sourcing through ‘Guided Work’ - [PRO Content]
April 10, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
KellyOCG, the outsourcing and consulting arm of Kelly Services, has been pursuing its own strategy to deliver new value to customers in the face of expanding possibilities of how talent can be sourced and engaged. From our perspective, the future will be less about distinct silos (in organizations, technology and outsourced services) and more about…

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