8 Best Practices for Maintaining Supplier Alignment

By Doug Harward
 

In my most recent blog post, “Are your training suppliers aligned to your needs?”, I addressed one of the most critical mistakes companies make when selecting a training supplier – strategic alignment.

 

But you or your company may have already committed to a long term engagement with a training supplier. After the services began, you then found that the supplier is not meeting your needs. So what do you do?

 

We found there are 8 best practices training leaders use to maintain proper alignment with existing suppliers. Training Industry, Inc. and General Physics recently completed a study which asked training executives to identify what are the best things they could do to maintain alignment with existing suppliers.  

 

Below are the 8 Best Practices for Maintaining Continuous Alignment. And if you would like to see the full report, click here .

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About the Author

Doug Harward

Doug Harward is the CEO and Founder of Training Industry, Inc. Mr. Harward is internationally recognized as one of the leading strategists for training and outsourcing business models. He is respected as one of the industry's leading authorities on competitive analysis for training services and works with international companies and new business start-ups in building training organizations.

Mr. Harward previously served as the Director of Global Learning for Nortel Networks where he led the industry's largest global training outsourcing engagement with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He received the Chairman's Global Award for Community Service for his work in developing integrated learning organization strategies within higher education, public schools and business. He has worked in the training industry for more than 25 years. Mr. Harward received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BSBA in Marketing from Appalachian State University.

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