Strategy - Blueprints

Identify and Manage Strategic Risk Impacts on Your Organization

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...

Identify and Manage Financial Risk Impacts on Your Organization

Vendors’ failure to perform, including security and compliance violations, can have significant financial consequences. Good vendor management practices help...

Reduce Risk With Rock-Solid Service-Level Agreements

Customers struggle to understand and evaluate what’s in the SLA and if they are meaningful and to protect their investment. Not understanding the details of SLAs...
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Price Benchmarking & Negotiation

Many organizations are ill equipped with tools, processes, and price negotiation tactics to optimize their agreements, resulting in increased fees. Turn your next vendor...
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Maximize Value From Your Value-Added Reseller (VAR)

Organizations typically have numerous VARs with overlapping or redundant services that aren’t fully used and are treated as commodity-type suppliers. Vendor Management...
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Identify and Reduce Agile Contract Risk

Agile methods have achieved a high level of popularity throughout the world. However, the challenge isn’t about adoption rates – it is about successful projects and...
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Evaluate and Learn From Your Negotiation Sessions More Effectively

Preparing and implementing a negotiation strategy are key components to a negotiation process, but there is another piece to the puzzle; debriefing after negotiations...
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Master the Public Cloud IaaS Acquisition Models

This project will provide IT leadership and procurement teams information to help them understand the basic terminologies of cloud infrastructure, what to look for in an...
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Slash Spending by Optimizing Your Software Maintenance and Support

This blueprint aims to provide an unbiased overview of the ins and outs of software maintenance & support (M&S), how to assess the cost and value of it to your...
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Implement Your Negotiation Strategy More Effectively

Preparing to negotiate is only half the battle, and successfully implementing your negotiation strategy requires attention to the subtle nuances of the process. However,...
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