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Strategic Sourcing

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Optimize & Re-Negotiate Contracts
Strategic Sourcing

Optimize & Re-Negotiate Contracts

Optimize & Re-Negotiate Contracts – 100% job satisfaction in IT is rare – each day brings new headaches. At best you get the usual suspects: excessive demands from business that recall the old Queen song, ornery suppliers, understaffed teams, budget cuts, etc. At worst you have delayed deployments, outages, failed upgrades, and contentious internal politics.… Read More »Optimize & Re-Negotiate Contracts

May 24, 2016

What's Wrong with IT Infrastructure Sourcing [Infographic]?
Strategic Sourcing

What's Wrong with IT Infrastructure Sourcing [Infographic]?

CIOs constantly wrestle with five common infrastructure sourcing problems and finding the solutions is no easy task. IT Infrastructure Sourcing. This is complex stuff. It’s difficult to find and decipher the most meaningful data and transform it into useful data. In a mission to assemble real-world transaction data, we’ve created a proprietary data repository that… Read More »What’s Wrong with IT Infrastructure Sourcing [Infographic]?

September 29, 2014

Future of IT Sourcing Negotiations
Strategic Sourcing

Future of IT Sourcing Negotiations

IT Sourcing By Alex Veytsel – One of the panels I most regret missing at Data Center Dynamics annual London show last week, where our CEO spoke was a discussion of the future of data centers in 10-20 years. Fortunately I got to participate in the prep session for it in the speaker’s lounge, where brilliant folks… Read More »Future of IT Sourcing Negotiations

November 27, 2012

IT Outsourcing Contract Negotiation Playbook: An Introduction
Strategic Sourcing

IT Outsourcing Contract Negotiation Playbook: An Introduction

IT outsourcing contract are not naturally a zero sum game. Although the prospect of failure is very real, most of the time matching the right customer and offer is a win-win for buyer and seller alike. However, more often than not it plays out as a win-WIN scenario — with one side getting just a… Read More »IT Outsourcing Contract Negotiation Playbook: An Introduction

January 29, 2010

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