Sourcing strategies and governance – Developing effective strategies to optimize the sourcing and supply of IT services and products in an increasingly changing technology landscape

Best in class approaches to identifying relevant emerging technologies and supporting the business balancing speed with acceptable risk

Transforming IT procurement processes to increase speed, agility and cost optimization

Rethinking and adopting new IT finance strategies for budgeting and exposing hidden IT costs

Redefining the role and value of sourcing in a rapid-paced, agile and competitive business environment

Cost optimization – Gathering insights, understanding the business needs, improving cost transparency and lowering operating costs

Negotiating better deals for IT services, software, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hybrid infrastructure

Successfully using dynamic price benchmarks and achieving business objectives with data-backed negotiations

Vendor management – Designing and implementing the ideal operating model for managing your vendor ecosystem to reduce vendor risks

Implementing a Vendor Performance Management Program to optimize vendor performance

Enabling SaaS transparency from Adobe to Zoom: How to identify savings potentials and optimize SaaS cost at speed?

SaaS Governance – Defining and understanding who is responsible for decisions on new purchases, contract negotiations, onboarding, and off-boarding of users in the context of SaaS

Innovation vs. costs – Improving collaboration between IT and IT Procurement to drive digital business

Build vs. buy in the age of digital transformation – From full outsourcing to a selective multi-/service tasking or even back to insourcing and building in-house IT services

RPA and intelligent automation meet IT Procurement – Progressing efficiency with automated processes

From renewal alerts and IT asset visualization to contract management – Identifying the best tools for effective IT Procurement