The purpose of the blueprint is to provide small/medium businesses (SMB) with the basic vendor management necessities to maximize their IT vendor investment. SMBs...
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VMware’s dominance in the Hypervisor space is not what it once was. However, it still owns significant market share. The growth of competitors in this technology has...
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This blueprint will provide you with an overview of how the Cisco Enterprise Software agreement works, the pros and cons, and how to weigh the benefits and features to...
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Once your vendor management initiative (VMI) has been operating for a while, it's time to take the next step in its evolution. It's time to transform the VMI from...
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Understanding your vendor team’s background, experience, and strategic approach to your account is key to the management of the relationship, the success of the vendor...
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Organizations must diligently assess and protect their reputations, both in the market and internally.
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Organizations must evolve their strategic risk assessments to be more adaptive to respond to global changes in the market. Ongoing monitoring of the market and the...
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Vendors’ failure to perform, including security and compliance violations, can have significant financial consequences. Good vendor management practices help...
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A bad RFP is ineffective and incomplete; it creates more questions than it answers; and, perhaps most importantly, it does not meet your organization expectations. Using...
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Understanding Microsoft’s licensing can be like learning a new language and, to add a twist, the rules of the language change from year to year. The push to the cloud has...
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