Outsourcing: Protect Yourself

Consultant Michael Corbett has worked with, spoken to and interviewed executives at thousands of corporations that contract with outside service providers for financial management, human resources, information technology and other non-core business functions. And in all of those discussions — which have covered the question of what can possibly go wrong when a company outsources part of its work — he’s never heard an executive raise a concern about vendor fraud. “That is just not something…