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Nominate now for the 2003 Editor's Choice Awards, this year in association with Forbes Special Sections. Winners will be announced at a special event at the May 2003 SIG Conference. The deadline is this month, so don't miss out!!

Lifting the Winner's Curse: Unlike most auctions, both buyers and service providers in an IT outsourcing transaction pay if the winning service provider offered an "irrational" price to get the deal. Stephen Dunn offers tips to buyers on how to avoid the winner's curse.

Service Provider Bankruptcy: How To Protect Your Company When Your Service Provider Goes Broke: Your service provider just declared bankruptcy. What do you do now? Lawyers at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw have some surprising remarks about what you can and can't do and some good ideas about how to protect yourself in your contract.

IDC Study: Transformational Outsourcing Is Transforming Outsourcing: Outsourcing used to be about cost, capital and cash flow. Today, outsourcing is about strategy and execution. So says a just-released study by IDC and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

Funding an Outsourcing Engagement With Entrepreneurs' Equity: In today's world of belt-tightened and falling stock prices, how do you fund an outsourcing initiative? Vensure gives entrepreneurs the ability to trade their development projects for equity.

Anchor for Agility: When Nortel selected a service provider, the low-cost offer did not prevail since Nortel wanted the best cultural fit. CSC won the deal after its negotiating team announced they would be the ones heading the account.

Deciding to Outsource, One Step at a Time: A Connecticut hospital group had a successful relationship with its service provider. But when it decided to expand the scope of its outsourcing, it hired an intermediary to help negotiate the new contract to eliminate conflict.

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