Why are Vendor Management skills important? How do mission and objectives affect the Vendor processes of our organization? Can the vendor create custom virus definitions for the organization? In what ways are Vendor vendors and us interacting to ensure safe and effective use? What are your current levels and trends in key Vendor measures or indicators of product and process performance that are important to and directly serve your customers?

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.

This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Vendor assessment.

All the tools you need to an in-depth Vendor Self-Assessment. Featuring 782 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Vendor improvements can be made.

In using the questions you will be better able to:

- diagnose Vendor projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

- implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

- integrate recent advances in Vendor and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines

Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Vendor Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Vendor areas need attention.

Included with your purchase of the book is the Vendor Self-Assessment downloadable resource, which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book in a ready to use Excel dashboard, including the self-assessment, graphic insights, and project planning automation - all with examples to get you started with the assessment right away. Access instructions can be found in the book.

You are free to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for customers without asking us - we are here to help.