Strategies for Optimizing Vendor Relations: Leading CTOs and CIOs on Finding a Balance Between Outsourcing and In-Housing, Leveraging Vendor Expertise, and Building and Maintaining Positive Relationships (Inside the Minds)

This product provides an insider's perspective on successfully navigating vendor relationships. Featuring chief technology and chief information officers representing some of the top companies in the nation, this book provides best practices for managing vendors, assigning responsibility, and tracking progress. These authors explain the keys to making and maintaining positive relationships, beginning with determining the role of vendors and establishing contracts with present vendor-partners. The authors also outline how, in today's cost-conscious economy, to find a balance between outsourcing and using in-house resources, in addition to perfecting negotiating and bidding practices to find the best price.