This fifth blog in the series of nine blogs on the sourcing lifecycle highlights the requirements that should be defined in the RFP document to receive the best responses from suppliers and ultimately successful contracts.
This fourth blog in the series of nine blogs on the sourcing lifecycle discusses the process and criteria for shortlisting suppliers for the Request for Proposal (RFP) process.
Organisations are becoming increasingly dependent on their core networks with greater reliance on business critical data and new bandwidth-hungry, latency-dependent applications. A service led approach towards IT procurement can ensure business needs are properly serviced by its network.
This third blog in the series of nine blogs on the sourcing lifecycle highlights the importance of pre-contract due diligence for a sourcing programme. Pre-contract due diligence for sourcing is the single most important preparatory activity that the organisation needs to undertake for any sourcing programme.
Many organisations have change management at the top of their list of complaints about their IT outsource and managed services contracts. What steps should you take to ensure your suppliers provide effective operational change management?
This first blog in the series of nine blogs on the sourcing lifecycle focuses on building the foundations for an IT sourcing strategy. To realise the true value of IT sourcing…
Even organizations with advanced Cloud practices have a long way to go before becoming future-proof: serverless services, NoOps and Lego IT are tomorrow’s norms…
According to a study published by Flexera Software and IDC, 85% of businesses are unknowingly using more software than permitted by their contracts with the publishers…