Do you want to know a secret about vendor management? Vendors can manage themselves. Do you want to know another secret? They are in business to make money — just like your company. In the age of ...

BPO buyer organizations talk the talk when it comes to governance and include it in their contracts, but many are not walking the walk. Thorough BPO vendor management is inconsistent at best, and this ...

Historically, vendor management teams built strong skill sets in acquiring services at low/competitive unit-cost prices and measuring vendor performance. But the world changed, and there is a growing ...

In this day and age, any healthcare provider organization could be the next victim of a cybersecurity breach. Unfortunately, countless organizations have experienced data breaches by a third party, ...

Can you truthfully answer the question, “Is vendor management truly important to you and your organization?" This came up as I was speaking to a friend of mine a few weeks ago who is a senior ...

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Vendor relationship management is critical ...

A vendor management organization (VMO) may go by a lot of different names and may exist in any number of different organizational structures within a company, but one thing is for sure, it rarely has ...

Historically, organizations have relied on static risk assessments and due diligence processes to evaluate their suppliers. This involves vetting vendors using questionnaires, compliance audits, and ...

A lawyer has an obligation to "not reveal information relating to representation of a client" except under certain limited circumstances. RPC 1.6. In Opinion 701, the Supreme Court of New Jersey's ...