There are hundreds of enterprise tools in the marketplace to manage the many different facets in an organization: project management, client relationship management, internal/external business ...

Key Takeaways Supply chains are becoming more distributed, and as a result, vendor relationships have become ongoing ...

Supplier relationship management training prepares a small business employee to develop the skills and knowledge required to manage a productive relationship with vendors. Typically intended for ...

IT execs cross the line when the relationship stops being businesslike and starts turning into obligatory perks. Whether solicited by a client or encouraged by a vendor, it generates conflicts of ...

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 ...

Traditional supplier relationship management (SRM) approaches fail to take advantage of opportunities to design collaborative business models, jointly create value, and drive innovation with strategic ...

Commentary - As 60-70% of an enterprise’s IT budget is spent on hardware, software, and external vendor services, maximizing the value derived from IT vendors is key to delivering efficient IT ...

When you engage a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) vendor, you are entering a business relationship that's deeper than just contracting for commodity processing or storage in the cloud. This ...

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Seven years ago this week I wrote something in what was then called the “Focus on Directory Services” newsletter. I didn’t know it at the time, but what I was really looking for was a Vendor ...