Vendor Management - Research Notes

Webinar: IT Vendor Cost-Reduction Planning

IT needs to implement proactive measures to reduce costs with immediate results. During this session we will go through a tactical and strategic approach to IT expense...

Five Proactive Cost-Reducing Tactics to Prepare for Your Organization’s COVID-19 Budget Impact

In the current health and economic climate, all organizations must examine current expenditures, whether they be CapEx or OpEx in nature. Beyond reducing discretionary...

Design and Build an Effective Contract Lifecycle Management Process – Executive Brief

Contract lifecycle management is the sum of many processes designed to manage contracts end to end while reducing corporate risk, improving financial savings, and...

Improve Your Statements of Work to Hold Your Vendors Accountable – Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should employ a systematic process for reviewing SOWs, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways...

Understand Common IT Contract Provisions to Negotiate More Effectively – Executive Brief

Read this Executive Brief to understand why a basic knowledge of contract terms and conditions is more important than ever.

Going to the Hospital Just Got a Little Less Risky

Hospitals work with hundreds of vendors, and conducting a risk assessment historically has been a manual, time-consuming process. Censinet recently launched a third-party...

Clearing the Purple Haze of Identifying Green Risk

Going green may be good for the environment, but it is often costly for vendors and hard for customers to determine a vendor’s “green-ness.” Moody’s Investors Service is...

Capture and Market the ROI of the VMO – Executive Brief

Read this Executive Brief to understand why it is important for a VMO to calculate and report the VMO's contribution to the organization.

SLA Hocus Pocus

Historically, vendor-provided service-level agreements (SLAs) have been moderately valuable (at best) for customers, but even those are disappearing. Through sleight of...

Can AI See the Future of RFPs?

Last week, MediaRadar announced a new addition to its suite of tools: RFP Predictor. Using AI, the company hopes to help ad sales teams predict when customers will issue RFPs.
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