{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-03T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/managingvendors.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-06-15T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:59:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=About\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"large\" data-url=\"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/?page_id=2\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"twttr_followme\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/managingvendors\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-size=\"large\"  data-show-screen-name=\"false\"  target=\"_blank\">Follow me<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><p>This blog is a professional project by myself, Jim Everett, Think180 Principal Partner. The purpose is to share knowledge and experience around managing vendors, and provide a starting point on key areas of interest for Vendor Managers. This is based on my years of experience gained from workshops run for clients, as well as extensive research.<br \/>\nAs an experienced professional consultant, trainer, and facilitator, I draw on years of in-house management training and performance management with a range of industries, government and companies, including Apple.<br \/>\nI have an Honors-level Degree in organizations, communications and performance.<br \/>\nThe other partner in Think180 is Jane Dixon, experienced in managing multi-vendor projects, financial management and client relations.<br \/>\nThink180 clients include Apple, Avaya, Alkermes, BP US and Canada, Harrah&#8217;s, Quantlab, Fidelity Investments, Government of Canada, Vantive, Wipro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is a professional project by myself, Jim Everett, Think180 Principal Partner. The purpose is to share knowledge and experience around managing vendors, and provide a starting point on key areas of interest for Vendor Managers. This is based on my years of experience gained from workshops run for clients, as well as extensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/managingvendors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}