This phase leads you through the build process to configure new tools and templates and introduces more sophisticated models from prior blueprints.
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This phase focuses on ensuring that the foundational elements for your vendor management initiative are in place and up to date.
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This storyboard will help you take your vendor management initiative framework to the next level as it continues to evolve and mature.
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Read this Executive Brief to understand how changes in the vendor landscape and customer reliance on vendors require the vendor management initiative to become strategic...
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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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This classic 2x2 tool helps you objectively determine which vendors are the most important ones to your organization from a vendor management perspective.
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Read this Executive Brief to understand why a basic knowledge of contract terms and conditions is more important than ever.
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Use this Blueprint to enhance your contract knowledge. Identify risk, understand legalese, and help your organization protect itself.
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Use this tool as a checklist and progress tracker when reviewing and negotiating IT contracts.
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Contract negotiation with major vendors is always painful. Take a strategic approach to negotiating with Oracle on database and application licensing.
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