Vendor Management: Part of Project Lifecycle

More often, we have been encountering IT projects where vendor management is a key enabler of the project lifecycle. Vendors are involved in the option evaluation, assist in development of the solution architecture, and are critical in the implementation and ongoing support. Selection, negotiation, and management of vendors as partners is a competence that CIOs and IT organizations are developing. Gregory Smith, CIO, World Wildlife Fund discusses his take of vendor management in information technology. ...

... "Drawing on these business capabilities, CIOs are developing best-practice vendor-management functions that are part of the IT-governance framework. CIOs with solid vendor-management functions in their organizations can often tip the scale in their favor ... " ...

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