Cutter Consortium :: Procurement Strategies for Business-IT Leaders

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Cutter Consortium helps companies leverage IT for competitive advantage and business success through its comprehensive range of consulting, training and content, provided by the leading expert practitioners in business and IT.

Procurement Strategies for Business-IT Leaders

Leader: Bart Perkins

Today, most applications are purchased rather than developed in-house. Poor buying decisions can cost your organization considerably more than the dollars spent. However, leveraging your IT procurement by making buying decisions part of a disciplined, enterprise-wide process that is guided by your IT architecture can be a pivotal tool in freeing up resources that can then be invested in other value-adding IT activities.

In this workshop, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Bart Perkins will help you understand why developing a sound procurement process that allows your enterprise to not only cut costs, but also to come to win-win contracts with critical suppliers is one of the most effective strategies you can employ. And based on his experience developing and implementing procurement strategies and policies in large organizations, Bart Perkins offers tips on how you can sell such a process in your organization and ensure it becomes an adhered-to practice.

At the end of this workshop, you'll have discovered:

Why uncoordinated buying decisions lead to an infrastructure that's both too complex and complicated to function effectively
Why buying decisions that appear sound in isolation may lead to overall disastrous results
How to define a process to coordinate buying decisions across the enterprise
Which deliverables it's important to consistently define, such as standard contract terms and conditions
Why stakeholder participation, right up to support from all CXOs, is critical to the success of your buying-decision process
Why it's imperative that your CIO controls the process, and more.

Leverage your procurement process: avoid "snap buying decisions" for high-priority projects, corral cowboy buyers; avoid acquiring technology from a pet vendor. Coordinate acquisitions across your enterprise by relying on explicit architectural guidelines and requiring that all buying decisions be checked against them. Discover how you can streamline, empower, and centralize your IT procurement process, reduce your spending portfolio and realize the architecture your enterprise has designed.

For more information on bringing this workshop to your organization, contact Jack Wainwright at +1 781 641 5122 or sales@cutter.com.

Procurement Strategies for Business-IT Leaders

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Cutter Consortium, founded in 1986, is a global IT advisory firm helping organizations forge solutions to the business technology challenges they face. Through its research, consulting, and training, Cutter assists enterprises as they create, implement, and maintain IT systems and organizations that support business objectives and encourage innovation. Cutter pushes the thinking in the field by fostering debate and collaboration between thought leaders from different domains, countries, and disciplines. As a completely independent entity that has no special ties to vendors, Cutter Consortium is beholden to no one and dedicated to providing completely objective, unbiased information to its clients. Cutter Consortium gives you access to the top thinkers in IT.

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