110 to One: Global Consolidation of Food and Soft Services

Description

In today's highly competitive, constantly evolving world of international business, the critical key is to keep innovating. Just a few years back, most of us ventured into the then, rather-uncertain area of consolidation and preferred partnerships. Hoping for strong strategic wins, we centralized our real estate and facilities functions and streamlined our supplier or partnership base (in most cases, we outsourced).
 
As business leaders we celebrated. Then, rather quickly began asking ourselves and each other: "Now what?" We need to innovate our model again. But how?
 
This article talks about the outsourcing partnership of Procter & Gamble and Jones Lang LaSalle.
 

Keywords:

soft services, integrated management, partnership, service delivery, service provider, outsourcing, Procter & Gamble, Jones Lang LaSalle, bundling, food services, cost savings