Often hidden within the supply chains of businesses, most companies use a variety of vendors daily. Third parties are the cogs that keep a business functioning and growing, from managing employees to ...

A well-defined vendor contract management process facilitates efficient negotiation, standardization of terms, version tracking, and performance measurement. It also strengthens your organization’s ...

Historically, vendor management teams built strong skill sets in acquiring services at low/competitive unit-cost prices and measuring vendor performance. But the world changed, and there is a growing ...

Despite advances over the past five years, IT vendor risk management is still done haphazardly and relies on static paper-based audits. One of the fundamental best practices of cyber supply chain ...

CIOs in many organizations will find themselves coordinating a more complex partner ecosystem as emerging technologies call for a broader set of products and services. IT leaders participating in the ...

Solution providers may have a formalized customer relationship management strategy in place, but for Ryan Morris, principle consultant at Morris Management Partners, vendor relationship management is ...

With compelling capabilities and deep expertise, Insight creates IT solutions to help innovate and optimize operations to run smarter. For years, sourcing, procurement, and vendor management (SPVM) ...

Over the past few years, many companies have taken the first steps in setting up an IT Vendor Management Office (VMO), but many are still very much in the early stages of refining what exactly the ...

Many articles and conference presentations focus on how to choose IT vendors, what to include in contracts and the need for oversight of these vendors after the contract is signed. Because of the ...

Technology, and especially artificial intelligence (AI), is changing the way business gets done. In virtually every market worldwide, automation, business intelligence, and new systems are ...

These top IT asset management tools can increase visibility of your IT assets for improved risk reduction. Find out which one is best for your business. IT assets are software, hardware or cloud ...