Agenda....

• The business-within-a-business paradigm, and its implications for deciding who does what

• The four jobs of the corporate provider
  • Full-service provider to corporate clients

  • Exclusive provider of a "short list" of products/services, and outsourcing vendor of choice for the rest (selling through business-unit providers)

  • Exclusive facilitator of decisions by consensus on corporatewide standards/policies/plans, and optionally provider of facilitation (not decision making) services to decentralized groups for business-unit standards/policies/plans at their invitation

  • Spokesperson for the profession corporatewide

• Facilitated decision making based on the Principle-based Organizational Structure Building Blocks framework of products/services:
  • The exclusive-provider short list (Service Providers, Engineers)

  • Corporatewide standards/policies/plans (Coordinators)

• Implementation and communications plan.