25th Annual IT Procurement Summit
For all IT Procurement Summit Registrations, please see our Summit page here.
Early-bird Discount Save $400 - Register by 4/29/22 - Payment due on or before 4/29/2022
Total Vendor Management
Getting What You Pay For
Online Event • April 6-8, 2022
Benefits
- Identify which vendors to manage
- Enhance relationships with vendors
- Ensure vendor performance
- Exercise your rights
- Monitor vendor obligations
- Learn to use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Implement an effective vendor management system
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Overview
Tired of worrying about your vendors’ performance? Concerned about contractual disagreements and products/services that don’t measure up to standards? This workshop will show you how to control your vendors and get what you pay for. You’ll learn techniques to establish and maintain a meaningful working relationship with your key vendors. And, you’ll discover how to create and utilize leverage that improves vendor performance.
Topics Include
- Essential Governance Structure and Tools
- Vendor Classification
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Relationship Management Techniques
- Managed Acquisition Process
Whether you currently have or are interested in establishing a Vendor Management Office (VMO) you’ll gain valuable insights by attending this seminar.
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IT Contracting Boot Camp
Get Informed. Leave Empowered.
Online Event • May 3-5, 2022
- The Art of Becoming a Dealmaker
- Contracting Philosophy Tool
- Popular Vendor Ploys and How to Counter Them
- Fundamentals of Drafting, Reviewing, and Negotiating
- Four Ways Suppliers Limit Their Risk Contractually
- Cloud Contracting: Risks & Strategies
- 10 Habits of a Successful Procurement Analyst
Register for IT Contracting Boot Camp
Statements of Work Done Right!
Successfully Draft, Negotiate and Manage
Online Event • May 18-19, 2022
Benefits
This highly interactive SOW workshop uses classroom discussion and group exercises to develop and improve skills in the following areas:
- Best-practice elements of great SOWs
- Getting input from stakeholders for SOW requirements
- Preventing vendors from using SOWs to modify master agreements
- Revising vendor-written fuzzy wording that might shift risk to the customer
- Licensing principles that maximize protections and money savings for customers
- Drafting SOW acceptance tests so customers get what they pay for
- Countering practices used by vendors to defeat customer protections in SOWs
Attendees will also come away with sample templates and checklists providing a solid foundation for negotiating, drafting and managing SOWs.
Overview
In Statements of Work (SOWs) we spend a lot of money while many products and services are bought. Oftentimes SOWs fail, causing delays, financial loss and other damages. Some SOWs written by a customer can be so unclear that acceptance testing is almost impossible. SOWs that are written by a vendor are often riddled with fuzzy words that shift all the risk to the customer. Additionally, vendors will use SOWs to modify key terms of a Master Agreement that inevitably put the customer at an increased disadvantage. Even customers with the best templates and negotiated SOWs still get burned by skilled vendors adept at managing the engagement and in turn, bypassing any written protections.
- Are your SOWs written by the Vendors?
- Do Vendors use SCOPE creep and Change Orders
- to charge more and bust your budgets?
- Do you need to get control of your SOWs?
With a curriculum purposefully designed to provide those new to the profession, and veterans looking to get back to basics, with practical tips and tactics for negotiating a better deal with suppliers, this 9-hour interactive workshop will leave participants feeling informed, empowered, and excited about their future in technology procurement. Sessions are hands-on, collaborative, and facilitated by some of the industry’s most engaging professionals.
Register for Statements of Work Done Right!
Cloud Contracting
Demystifying the Fog
Online Event • June 8-10, 2022
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NEGOTIATIONS
Power * Process * Principles
Online Event • July 20-22, 2022
Benefits
Overview
If you’re ever in a position that requires you to negotiate, this is a must-attend seminar! Do better trade agreements, acquisitions/mergers, real estate transactions, labor settlements and corporate or government procurement. Close large sales or improve any deal where you need to protect your interests. Unlike other ICN courses, which are aimed at IT procurement professionals, this seminar is for anyone who negotiates anything.
Register for NEGOTIATIONS: Power * Process * Principles
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