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Technology IT Procurement Foundations
Practical technology sourcing and category management for procurement professionals
Technology IT Procurement Foundations is a part of the CIPS Skills portfolio — a practical training course for procurement, sourcing, and business professionals who need to understand how technology buying actually works.
The course explains key IT procurement concepts, including SaaS, cloud services, IT outsourcing, buy-or-build decisions, TCO, sourcing strategy, supplier risk, contracting challenges, and service delivery. It helps participants move beyond a legacy purchasing mentality and achieve superior results in complex technology categories.
Apply the course concepts using the Sourcing Readiness Checklist to assess requirements and the route to market, the IT Service Model Selector to examine ownership and benefit sharing, and the Procurement Team Calculator to compare staffing costs and service levels.
Technology procurement is no longer just about running an RFP and comparing prices. SaaSpocalypse, bimodal IT, adaptive sourcing, Pace Layer, Buyclasses, Agile, Game Theory, Incomplete Contracts, and Relational Governance—these are just a few of the concepts and tools that will help students add depth to IT category analysis and sourcing strategies.
You will
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review practical cases with your dedicated AI assistant,
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create AI-enabled hybrid sourcing strategies,
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regularly share your opinions via online presentation tabs,
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get your cases, quizzes, and negotiation games scored upon completion by the AI assistant. Total scores by Student ID will be maintained throughout the course.
Everything that you studied or responded to will remain with you - via rich course deliverables with AI support (Explain the Slide button) and a dedicated course refresher below. Your learnings will not evaporate the night after a course — they're meant to stay with you long enough to help your work whenever you need to.