THE DEMAND SUPPLY GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK

Demand Supply Governance is a skill in high demand because of the following:
* Ever faster technology advances, pressures on costs and service levels causes pressure on the IT departments to deliver.
* Outsourcing has made the market more co
mpetitive
* IT departments are poor at demonstrating and publicizing their added value.

The Demand Supply Governance discipline addresses these issues by focusing on:
* Encouraging services, as required by and agreed upon with the b
usiness, which are actually delivered to the business: on time and in accordance with the agreed upon quality specifications, and at an acceptable level of costs.
* Increasing the added value of IT and making it manifest

This title look
s at the key frictions of encouraging IT Supply to meet Business Demand. By encouraging a pro-active approach this title suggests that IT departments can dramatically improve their profile and their services to the organization It describes an estab
lished framework with a key set of principles as well as practical issues such as roles, organization and implementation.

This title supports the Sourcing Governance Foundation Qualification.
SGF Qualification also qualifies an individua
l for COS-FP certification from IAOPR.