Hot sauce, is what I got, just remember that Sourcing, is what I got..
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Is There Such a Thing as Price Gouging and Price Fixing in IT?
In the wake of hurricanes, as the deluge recedes, regulators see a rising flood of complaints about price gouging for necessities such as water and gas. And despite contrary opinions from some economists, 34 states have anti-gouging laws on the books.
The Myth of the RFP for Everything at Half Price
The Myth of the RFP By Tony Greenberg A long time ago in a business not so far away, a king sat considering his fate. The weather had been poor during the last growing season, the peasants were getting restless, and neighboring kingdoms were either disappearing into the abyss or raising …
Smoking Gun Questions To Ask Your IT Sourcing Broker
Why RampRate Does Better Than Other Advisors While other entities such as brokers, agents, systems integrators, sourcing advisors, and internal procurement departments can tackle similar challenges, none of them have the full combination of data, technology expertise, objectivity, and …
The right tools to make the right decisions Part 1
Cloud computing isn’t emerging, futuristic, or innovative. It’s just a building block in the CIO’s infrastructure arsenal. One piece of evidence: it’s missing from Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. That doesn’t mean that all cloud technologies are commoditized …
The right tools to make the right decisions Part 2
Are You Going to Be All Talk or All Action? ..Getting the Most out of Your Existing Cloud But supposing you’re one of the many that has made the leap and deployed some apps in the cloud. How will your organization continue to extract efficiencies for the long haul? It’s not just an arbitrage of …
IT Buyers Say “We are OK.” Are you Sure? Part 1
After 15 years of running a consultancy for the world’s most powerful firms, there is one thing that still irks me. Every day we propose
So now that we admit we have a problem Part 2
How do we avoid making things worse with the It solution? In the last post, I talked about IT, finance, and sourcing managers not wanting