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Buy-side Delivery and Vendor Managers Papers

Sourcing, vendor-management, process, technology, control, and delivery leaders managing the buyer side of an agentic outsourcing engagement.

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Title page: Training Every Party to Manage Agentic Outsourcing — Prove Capability Across the Delivery Relationship. Phil Hatch, Akholi, October 23, 2026.

AAO-124 / People and Capability

Training Every Party to Manage Agentic Outsourcing

Managing agentic outsourcing requires people in both firms to authorize work, challenge results, accept outcomes, disclose interventions, and recover the service. Train participating roles for those duties and test the relationship through joint rehearsal before expanding consequential authority.

Buy-side Boards and Executives · Buy-side Delivery and Vendor Managers · Service Providers
Cross-industry · 8 pages
Title page: Measuring ROI in Agentic Outsourcing — Functional Baselines, Full Costs, and Recovered Value. Phil Hatch, Akholi, October 23, 2026.

AAO-125 / Economics and Value

Measuring ROI in Agentic Outsourcing

Measure the outsourced function before and after transition on a comparable price-and-performance basis. Establish full buyer cost and captured benefits, account for the investment, and repair the delivery constraints that consume value. A cheaper agent task or released capacity alone does not establish ROI.

Buy-side Boards and Executives · Buy-side Delivery and Vendor Managers · Service Providers
Cross-industry · 9 pages

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