Additional Courses and Training
IT Contracting Boot Camp
Get Informed. Leave Empowered.
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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.
IT Contracting Boot Camp Modules
- 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
Second Day option—exclusively for Boot Camp Participants
Enroll in the CTPS (Certified Technology Procurement Specialist) certification program and leave with this professional designation. During the IT Contracting Boot Camp instructors will deliver critical concepts and need to know information. This training will provide an outstanding background that will allow you to succeed when you decide to move forward with your industry certification.To learn more about the CAUCUS Professional Certification visit CAUCUSnet.com/certification/
Cloud Contracting for Government
A "Best Practice" Approach
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Benefits
- Do your deals faster
- Save money on your taxpayers’ dollars
- Complete Compliance on Government Regulations
- Learn the benefits and risks of Cloud Services
- Prepare yourself to acquire Cloud Services
- Analyze/evaluate Cloud Services options
- Mitigate Cloud Service risks
Overview
If not already, you may soon be experiencing firsthand the storminess of Cloud service acquisition and implementation.
Government procurement of Cloud services can be very different from the corporate world. City ordinances, state constitutional requirements, mandates by the Department of Justice and the FBI, budget appropriation limitations, etc. Our interactive seminar will consist of discussions and group exercises that will, among other things, help you to:
- Learn Cloud contracting in a government context
- Re-examine Data protection needs from the state/local government viewpoint
- Focus on Cloud contracting issues unique to the government sector
- Review how statutes, regulations, etc. can improve government negotiation leverage
- Study wording developed to protect governmental customers of Cloud services
Join us and get the information, skills, and templates that will help you reach loftier heights negotiating and contracting among the Clouds in 2019.
Statements of Work Done Right
Successfully Draft, Negotiate and Manage
Online Event • July 15-16, 2019
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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?
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Software: Issues, Contracts, & Negotiations
Online Event • September 9-11, 2019
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Benefits
- Understand current market trends
- Learn negotiating tactics you can use
- Learn and understand remedies to use for noncompliance
- Avoid litigation
- Save your assets
- Learn keys to success in development contracts
- Obtain meaningful warranties
Overview
In recent years, software deals have grown more complicated and difficult to understand and manage. This workshop delivers the latest information you need to know about software issues, contracts and negotiations. Our highly skilled instructors have years of hands-on experience, so you get valuable insights and tips you can put to use immediately. What you learn at this workshop translates directly into more protection and flexibility in every software agreement you negotiate.
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Do Better Deals Workshop
Online Event • August 5 - 7, 2019
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Total Vendor Management
July 24 - July 26
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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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