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VENDOR-MANAGEMENT5 MIN READ

Turn QBRs from Status Theater into Governance

Describe the governance purpose of a vendor QBR and the agenda that makes it useful.

The reframe: A QBR is a decision meeting with data, not a data meeting with decisions at the end. Outcome First Open with the business result the vendor exists to support. If the vendor handles onboarding checks, the outcome is time-to-ready and compliance confidence, not number of tickets processed. Scorecard Second Review SLA performance with trend, variance, and root cause. A green average can hide repeated P1 pain; a red metric can be acceptable if the root cause is already contained. Risk Third Use the QBR to inspect vendor risk that will not show up in normal tickets: subcontractors, capacity,…

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