A recent article in CIO magazine proposed a means of benchmarking suppliers on the cheap. Don't bother with all that expensive data gathering and comparator idenfication, just get the benchmarker to give you a price for the service and start your negotiations from there.

Great, quicker process and undoubtedly a nice low price point from which to start beating up on the supplier. Even better no need to 'look under the hood' and check that the benchmarker has used the correct data. But will it work? Read More...