IT Sourcing and Vendor Management

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Rise to the IT sourcing challenges of the digital age

Functional leaders can use Gartner IT Score for Sourcing & Procurement to measure the maturity of their function in key activities, prioritize areas of improvement and plot the function’s path to improvement. This tool helps you in the following areas:

  • Strategic planning — Understand how well your function is performing in its current state.
  • Functional transformation — Support short- and long-term planning by clearly identifying next steps and associated resources.
  • Resource allocation — Ensure alignment of strategy and resources with market opportunities and business needs.

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    IT vendor management teams need to get out of the back office and establish a more prominent role in achieving strategic objectives.

    Claudio Da Rold

    Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research & Advisory

    How we address your top IT sourcing and vendor management challenges

    As an IT sourcing and vendor management leader, you are the critical link between your organization’s internal capabilities and the external digital business ecosystem. We provide leaders like you with the insights to manage costs, mitigate risk and deliver business growth. Our insights, advice and tools equip you to:

    Implement adaptive sourcing

    Support digital business agility and innovation by designing and delivering adaptive sourcing strategies. Leverage these approaches to identify, seize, propose and collaboratively deliver cost optimization efforts across the business.

    Drive Cost Optimization and Efficiencies 

    Adopt a collaborative, cross-functional approach to restructure operational spending and reduce IT and business process costs. This research helps you periodically direct an effort to rationalize and consolidate vendors to improve spend and performance.

    Strategize Vendor Negotiations 

    Vendor negotiations are challenging even in the most favorable economic conditions.  IT Leaders can include these models in their negotiation strategy and playbook to optimize deals. 

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    Gain exclusive insight on the latest trends, receive one-on-one guidance from a Gartner expert, network with a community of your peers and leave ready to tackle your mission-critical priorities.

    Gartner is a trusted advisor and an objective resource for more than 15,000 enterprises in 100+ countries.

    Learn more about how we can help you achieve your mission-critical priorities.