IT Procurement Processes - Best Practices and Examples

This presentation discusses IT procurement processes, including administrative and strategic responsibilities such as managing supplier relationships, negotiating prices, and market research. Best practices include acquiring technology that aligns with organizational needs, forming strategic relationships, involving stakeholders, and minimizing IT risks. Examples of IT procurement in industries include server equipment, network services, and IT purchases of services based on electronic health records.

IT Procurement Processes
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IT Procurement
 A series of activities necessary for acquiring IT services and products
 They involve a series of administrative and strategic responsibilities
 They include creation of quotations, proposal requests and thus manage
supplier relationships (Johansson & Lahtinen, 2013)
 They include tasks such as negotiation of prices, market research, resolving of
discrepancies and communication of proper status with customers

Best Practices in IT Procurement
Some of the major practices in IT procurement includes:
 Acquiring of technology that would align with the organizational needs
 Formation of Strategic Relationships
 Involvement of Stakeholders
 Minimization of different IT risks within the organizational assets
 Acquiring of assets by looking forward to the future of the organization

Examples in IT Procurement
Some of the examples of IT procurement in industries are:
 Server Equipment, Software-as-a-Service, Managed Hosting Services and
Acquisition of Cloud Platforms
 Network Services and Equipment based on Telecommunication Services
 Administration of File and Print Server, Application Server, E-mail and Hosting
Services
 Desktop Support Services
 IT Purchase in relation with Software Implementation such as Oracle Database,
Microfilm Equipment and Services (Schwalbe, 2015)
 IT Purchases of services based on Electronic Health Records

References
Johansson, B., & Lahtinen, M. (2013). Getting the balance right between
functional and non-functional requirements: the case of requirement
specification in IT procurement. International Journal of Information Systems
and Project Management, 1(1), 5-16.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage
Learning.

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