Ten-year outsourcing contracts are so 2005, warns Hampshire County Council's ex-CIO Jos Creese

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Keep the lawyers and accountants - especially suppliers' lawyers and accountants - at arm's length when negotiating with vendors, advises Creese

More and more organisations need to renegotiate their arrangements with their IT software and services suppliers in order to take advantage of new technology and the new ways of working it enables,...

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