Appendix A

Supplier Selection Checklist

For most technologies, a supplier or vendor will likely be used to provide some part of the system. For example infrastructure, application code, support, and so on. This means it is important that care and attention are taken when selecting a supplier.

The entire process can be defined as follows:

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Figure A.1 Supplier selection, implementation, and off-boarding lifecycle

Confirm the Business Need

The first stage is to confirm the business need for the supplier selection. For example, a Cloud computing provider is required because the firm wants to reduce day to day technology costs by XYZ percent or a ...

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