Andrew Karpie's Blog

Making a Beeline for What Lies Beyond VMS — A Smart Move?

The short answer, I think, is yes.

Beeline’s recent acquisition of OnForce may be a significant event in the staffing supply chain world. It’s certainly a notable one. Not at all a VMS consolidation play, the acquisition is about the strategic broadening of capabilities to serve markets in valuable new ways. Those markets consist of, on the one hand, those organizations that need to get work done... More

The Emergence of IWMS (Independent Workforce Management Solutions)?

Over the past two years, we have defined Online Staffing Platforms as follows:

Online Staffing - an online platform model that enables specific hirers and specific (typically contingent) workers to enter into, complete, and transact work arrangements. There is a direct (contractual/legal) relationship between hirer and worker, which the platform enables.

The most recent SIA landscape analysis of... More