As organisations become more Agile-focused, your control and ability to govern IT across your programs – let alone the business – continues to diminish.  Whether we like it or not, the trend to fragment Enterprise IT, growth in Shadow IT, broadening of IT decision making and a rapidly evolving market generating constant change to stay in the game make any semblance of control a distant memory.

To make things worse, projects have become more complex, more reactionary, proffer less visibility and bring an array of panelled and shadow vendors intertwined throughout. Vendors can make or break your success – if they fail, the project fails and somehow, it is your problem.

How can you manage them all successfully when you no longer have the internal expertise to validate the work, and don’t have visibility of the projects and programs across the organisation they are engaged in?

They are a distraction from what you really need to deliver. Even with only a handful to manage, vendors can absorb time and effort you don’t have. Yet, you need to intimately understand what they’re doing. All of them.

You can’t afford to hope they’re delivering what you need (and not what they want to necessitate yet another change request) – you need someone on your side who can manage the relationship, validate the deliverables and measure the value.

Whether you’ve taken over a large or complex program with residual vendors, are providing oversight on project deliverables you have little exposure to, are running out of bandwidth and need a hand, managing a challenging vendor who is undermining your project, or currently assessing what you need – we can help.