Who in your organisation leads the prospecting, evaluation and decision to purchase or renegotiate an IT product/contract?

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Central procurement (outside IT)8%

IT Sourcing team (within IT)63%

IT Product team (within IT)20%

CIO6%

Specialized IT purchasing group (outside IT)1%

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Director of Operations in Finance (non-banking)a year ago

Specialized IT Procurement group must leads the entire process in large organizations. Aspects like Risk, Terms & Conditions only can managed by a specialized team in IT Contracts & Negotiations. Vendors contracts are very intrincate and plenty of one-sided conditions.

Director of Procurement in Softwarea year ago

While procurement leads and governs the entire process, IT is a partner to procurement enabling procurement with the right functional and technical perspective. Large organizations can have specialized IT sourcing and procurement teams. But for small and medium scale enterprises which cannot dedicate resources only for IT purchases, it must be a partnership between central procurement and IT.

Director of Network Transformation2 years ago

This needs to be a group effort... and never leave it to procurement.  Yikes.  

IT Governance Director in Travel and Hospitality2 years ago

A global Purchasing department can be specialized in several goods and services adquisition and renegotiation, are they specialized also in IT services in your Organization?

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