Outsourcing Governance: Why You Didn’t Do It
For the vendor managers and vendor account managers out there, here’s our list of the top 10 reasons why your program doesn’t have a governance model:
10. Governance?! BINGO!9. Managing a vendor is a one-person job.8. Your vendor performs it’s own “independent” monthly SLA audits.7. Vendor invoices are accurate and clients pay on-time.6. Your client provides regular, accurate forecasts.5. Your client doesn’t require change control procedures.4. The consultants left at the end of the project.3. You calibrated you quality audit scoring when the project launched.2. Your contract has dispute resolution language already.1. Governance doesn’t have a positive ROI.
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