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White Papers

HCMWorks, Inc. has launched a white paper series to help companies evaluate the best ways to optimize their indirect services expenditures. The ongoing series explores the challenges, solutions, and savings opportunities that can be achieved in multiple indirect services categories (consultants, temp labor, marketing, travel, legal, IT, etc.).

NEW! Our most recent White Paper is now available for download:

Driving Continuous Supplier Improvement

Driving Continuous Supplier Improvement

Readers will learn 6 Principles for Implementing Partnership Metrics.

As companies engage in greater numbers of supplier partnerships, and as partnerships become increasingly important in terms of strategic and financial impact, senior management... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


Other White Papers available from HCMWorks:

Assessing Supplier Performance

Executive Summary

Two seemingly opposite trends in supplier management are gaining traction in the marketplace. According to an Institute
of Supply Management survey of leading national purchasing and supply professionals, “partnering” and “e-commerce” are
currently viewed as... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


Segmenting the Supply Base to Improve Resource Allocation

Segmenting the Supply Base to Improve Resource Allocation

Procurement has played a key role in meeting their companies’ ambitious cost-cutting targets over the past several years. Utilizing recurring negotiations with suppliers, buyers have achieved... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


Survey Results Indirect Services Procurement

Indirect Services Procurement Survey

As 2010 kicks off a new decade, North American economic markets are starting to see signs of recovery. At the same time, organizations continue to look for ways to reduce... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


Total Cost of Productivity

Indirect Services Spend - Total Cost of Productivity

As corporations are looking for the first “green sprouts” of economic recovery, a changing dynamic in the marketplace has arisen. This will cause organizations to... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


Ahead of the Curve

Prognostication: The Art of Predicting the Future

Today we hear phrases like “economic tsunami,” “the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression,” “crisis in labor,” “the economic crisis of 2009,” and “the world financial... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


The Value of Truly Vendor-Neutral Managed Service Programs

Managed Service Programs in Staffing

Using a strategy borrowed from corporate travel service providers, in the early 1980s staffing organizations began offering their own version of a Vendor on Premise (VOP) model to their... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


Diamonds in the Backyard

Diamonds in the Backyard

There is an old parable about a farmer who heard that diamonds had been found in the nearby mountains. In the pursuit of riches, he quickly gave his farm to... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


Staffing Industry: History and Perspective

Introduction to the Staffing Industry

Contingent workforce is a phrase coined by the late economist and U.S. Labor Department Analyst Audrey Freedman in the 1980s to identify the emerging group of independent workers (temporary... REQUEST THIS WHITE PAPER


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About HCMWORKS

Indirect Procurement intelligence beyond what our competitors provide – we don’t just guide our clients on what they can achieve, we help them achieve it.

  • Beyond analysis and strategy, our teams of experts assist our clients by implementing successful change management and adoption programs that ensure sustainability and success.
  • Technology Agnostic.  We don’t believe systems are a “one size fits all.”  Our analysis of your firm’s expenditures reveals the best market solutions based on your corporate goals, cultural nuances and definitions of business success.
  • Create enterprise intelligence on a single platform for tremendous indirect procurement visibility.
  • Our programs can be deployed from analysis to implementation within 3-6months with a rapid return on investment.
  • Proof-of-Concept.  We can start slow then move fast.  Let’s collectively demonstrate to all constituents what success can look like.