CHAPTER 7

Developing Your Enterprise Selection Capability

You now have a robust set of guidelines on how to obtain individual resources and manage those resources over time. This final chapter helps you take what you have learned and build a strong selection capability based on the resource pathways framework within your organization. Our goal is twofold: to help your firm make strong individual sourcing decisions and create an organization that is capable of developing and maintaining a balanced build-borrow-buy portfolio across your enterprise.

Figure 7-1 outlines the selection capability cycle. You begin by defining a strategic road map and your resource gaps, while avoiding the implementation trap (the mistaken notion that past resource ...

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