AI and Digital Strategy
Digital Capability Can Move the Make-or-Buy Boundary
Digital transformation can change which services an enterprise should build, buy or co-develop by altering cost, knowledge, control and supplier dependence.
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Strategy and Foresight
The Executive Decision Behind Make-or-Buy
Make-or-buy is not a simple cost comparison. It determines where capability, knowledge, risk, control and future strategic options will reside.
Strategy and Foresight
Disaggregate Before You Source: One Project May Need Multiple Procurement Models
Why leaders should break complex projects into capabilities and interfaces before deciding what to make, buy, outsource, partner or multi-source.
Portfolio Leadership
From Execution Attention to Governance Attention
Contracting a function out does not free senior capacity. It converts execution attention into governance attention at a rate no business case states, rarely at par.
Operational Excellence
Is Your Make-or-Buy a Cost Decision or a Capability Decision?
Make-or-buy is usually argued on unit cost. The margin most firms think they gain by making is conditional on scale they may not have.
Operational Excellence
Do You Know Your Suppliers' Costs, or Only What They Charge You?
Procurement negotiates price. Strategy maps where margin is captured along the chain — and tests whether the analysis behind the decision would survive scrutiny.
Business Models and Growth
In-House or Outsource? The Strategic Decision Behind Manufacturing Capability
A decision framework for make-versus-buy choices that considers strategic capability, total cost, resilience, learning and long-term competitive position.
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