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“Suppliers with true confidence in their abilities don’t shy away from competition or fulfillment of their responsibilities.”
— Joe Auer, founder of ICN
“Suppliers with true confidence in their abilities don’t shy away from competition or fulfillment of their responsibilities.”
— Joe Auer, founder of ICN
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ICN - Do Better Deals Workshops
Allow ICN to do customized training for your organization.
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Customize
a workshop for your organization
and everyone involved in the process.
Doing better deals is a process,
not an isolated event.
Advantages of ICN Private Workshops
Cost-effective
— An unlimited amount of people can all be trained without airfare or hotel costs
Convenient
— Your location and at the time/date of your choice
Customized
— Your company and your team
Concise
— Presentations tailored specifically to you
Conducive to Candor
— Only your team is in attendance
Case Study Specificity
— Your company’s current situation
Confidential to your Company
— Your current or ongoing negotiations
Combination of Modules
— Our award-winning seminars and training programs
Commonality
— Simultaneous training and messaging for your team
Camaraderie
— Team building from shared simultaneous training
Modules include
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 and Strategies
10 Habits of a Successful Procurement Analyst
Content Outline
Benefits
Learn the benefits and risks of Cloud Services
Get the factors essential to the paradigm shift presented by Cloud Computing
Prepare yourself to acquire Cloud Services
Counter Vendor Ploys unique in Cloud deals
Analyze/evaluate Cloud Services options
Mitigate Cloud Service risks
Content Outline
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
Content Outline
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?
Benefits
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
Content Outline
Your RFP process should determine
The willingness of a vendor to accept contractual commitments
Skills and experience a vendor needs to do the job right, on time and within budget
Vendor responsibilities
Deliverables you can expect to see, and when
Ramifications if a vendor does not deliver as expected
The best deal
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