The document outlines the challenges organizations face in effectively overseeing outsourcing and managed services due to overwhelming data from vendors and a lack of governance, which often results in subjective and adversarial relationships. It introduces the balanced scorecard approach as a structured framework for measuring the value of managed services across financial, delivery, customer satisfaction, and resource productivity metrics. This approach facilitates clearer communication of relationship health and offers benefits such as time savings and improved reporting for both clients and service providers.