Stable stocks with a long -
term growth capability are what you want for investing, but in the short run, look for stocks that have broad highs and lows in their recent trading history.
These factors include supplier's performance over the current contract
term, the strength of the relationship with the supplier, the alignment of the current outsourcing model with customer's strategies and objectives, any change in customer's operating model, strategy or requirement since the initial contract was executed, whether the customer expects that its operating model, strategy or requirement may change during the renewal
term, the
capability of supplier to support customer future
growth, supplier's innovation and flexibility, the cost of transition, the ability of customer to manage the transition, the level of risk during transition given other initiatives, the availability of other service providers, changes in appetite for risk, changes in the outsourcing industry, changes in the legal and regulatory environment.
Corporations now have to ask themselves whether the short -
term financial benefits of participating in corrupt business relationships is worth the long -
term risk of contracting a corruption virus which may reveal itself in the years ahead, impacting on the corporation's integrity,
growth curve and tendering
capability, thereby rendering it a leper to multi-national compliant business entities.