How to kick out your preferred vendor

Posted on 30 April, 2011 at 7:30 AM by with 2 Comments

If your preferred had NOT been serving you good all these while.
What are you going to do?

I happened to come across an organization had practice a way to kick out the preferred vendor in a professional manner.

Since your preferred vendor had been assigned and serving for a while and had not been giving you the best service such as late delivery, delayed quotation.

One of the ideal approach is to invite another vendor and promote it to be another preferred vendor as well. Thus you have 2 preferred vendors serving you on the same products, say stationery or network equipment.

Since your initial preferred vendor is not serving you good. You can seek all your internal team members to get more quotations and work with your new preferred vendor.

As time goes by, the procurement team can generate a report and states that the volume transact with the initial preferred vendor is reduced. You can then tell the initial vendor that the organization would like to stop the service and terminate the business relationship.

This thus give both side an opportunity a leeway to disengage the service.

Lesson Learned: Never dis-engage a vendor right away. Due to contractual obligations, it makes no business sense to terminate immediately. But use a strategic move to move a vendor away from the list.

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Lessons Learned in Cloud Computing

Posted on 25 March, 2011 at 11:45 PM by with Leave a Comment

New technology appears every time and always be gearing towards enhancement.

Cloud Computing is the new trend in the IT industry.
What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic — a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider (the consumer needs nothing but a personal computer and Internet access). Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing.

Clients will subscribe to the hosting service, thus reducing the capital investment.

If the trend is moving toward this direction, in fact, it IS right now.

There will be 2 angles at looking this technology.

From Business point of view,

  • Companies need not to engage much manpower to maintain the hardware, (especially the in-house team). Fewer manpower is required. Most of the services are hosted in the service provider.
  • It is a reduced expenditure on capital assets. The company will have little hardware to take care. Pay the hosted service and the business is on.
  • Justifiable to management that it is an Operating expense rather than Capital expense. Companies will need not to or reduced stress over the depreciation cost, maintenance cost, number of license count and so forth.
  • Company IT infrastructure are simpler, just direct , sufficient access to the service provider and need not worry about the equipment hats needs to invest.

From employees perspective

  • Many people will soon be out of employment, lesser manpower is required, because of the in-house works / efforts are outsourced to service provider
  • Lesser job opportunities are available in the company. Older workers will have to upgrade themselves in order to stay relevant in the job

Lessons Learned:

When technology automates, it does ease everyone by not capturing anything manual and even a manpower reduction.

The downside of it is, there will be a trade-off for manpower. Most of the services are outsourced to service providers. Thus, the unemployment rate will rise. Older staffs will need to upgrade themselves academically or technically in order to stay relevant in the job.

Looking at the other side, there is no requirement for more headcounts to service the internal assets.

With human around, there is always some kind of negativeness, such as low productivity, efficiency, performance and so forth.

How are you going to measure a person’s productivity, efficiency or other means. There are also intangible benefits like well versed process & procedures, internal security etc.

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Job vs Career

Posted on 17 July, 2009 at 10:00 AM by with

Do you know the difference between a “job” and a “career”?

According to the dictionary, a “job” is defined as “a paid position of employment and something one has to do, a responsibility.” Interestingly enough, the root word for “job” is, humorously, an Old English word that means “a lump.” The reference is to a quantity, a “lump” of work, so to speak. As it applies to our topic, it is one distinct and unrelated period of employment in a series of jobs one may have.

A “career,” on the other hand, comes from Middle French and stems from an earlier word for “car” — and then “street.” So, a career is a path. The dictionary defines it as “an occupation, a way of making a living, especially with opportunities for advancement or promotion, and progress through life.” It is a journey – a career pathway.

These definitions are nice and dandy – but what do they mean to you?


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