As society has moved closer to a service economy, so too has procurement moved from compliance to a value-added service. While not strictly a profit center, every dollar a buyer saves goes directly into the company’s pocket. To keep up with today’s fast-moving economy, procurement must go from a search of data, or even applying knowledge already learned, to acquiring wisdom.—from The Technology Procurement Handbook.

What? Okay, this Handbook reads like stereo instructions or the driest textbook ever. But some exciting research is inside—if you can stay awake long enough to get to it.

The Technology Procurement Handbook contains a brief overview of many systems like the ITIL, PMBOK and Agile. Later in the book, many research results are summarized. Like I said earlier, it has very good information but it’s presented in the most boring way. 3 stars.

Thanks to Kogan Page Ltd. and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

This is a good resource book for any Information Technology professional who is working on a strategy for procurement as it is one of the most difficult and time consuming processes in this field. The only issue I have with the book is the lack of information about compliance requirements in procurement including IT Accessibility standards, records retention, data protection, and cybersecurity concerns. Also it I work in a very large organization and some procurement is done at the enterprise level and some is done at the departmental level. It is difficult to track and follow the licensing requirement for all these different sources of products.