The Internet giant has said its digital glasses, ’Project Glass’, will be manufactured in Silicon Valley.

Despite global economic uncertainty, employees and job seekers are ramping up their demands forcing organisations to tailor packages that offer more money, flexibility and upgraded benefits, new research reveals.

Thought Leaders is a series of regular posts from experts from across industries and regions, looking at the issues procurement faces today. In this, the second post in her series, academic, author and outsourcing guru Kate Vitasek continues her look at governance in outsourcing structures and examines in more detail the end of the contract cycle and looks at some of the naive decisions made by parties going into an outsourcing agreement.

Chinese suppliers have posed something of a PR dilemma for Apple for some time now. On the one hand the business has found great value not only in its legendary secret supply chain tactics and close engagement with low-cost country sourcing. On the other, stories of the environmental transgressions among alleged Apple suppliers are harder to keep quiet.

Thought Leaders is a series of regular posts from experts from across industries and regions, looking at the issues procurement faces today. In this, the second post in her series, academic, author and outsourcing guru Kate Vitasek continues her look at governance in outsourcing structures and exmines in more detail the transformation management element of outsourcing and what procurement should look at in an agreement in the event of change.