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You're managing multiple projects with vendor relationships. How do you decide which one to prioritize?

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You're managing multiple projects with vendor relationships. How do you decide which one to prioritize?

Dive into the art of decision-making! Share your strategies for prioritizing projects and managing vendor relationships.

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    Yusuf T.

    Experienced Smart City Manager, ELV & Telecom Expert | MBA | Driving Innovation in IoT and Smart Communities.

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    Prioritization will be done according to customer engagement, assessing and evaluation of value,risk analysis in order to ensure optimum outcome and goals of each project

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    Mithilesh Maurya

    “Renewable Energy | Robotic Dry Cleaning | Project Management ! Product V&V! Innovating Sustainable Solutions”

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    Decision of project prioritization will require analysis of location of project, size of project, skill set required to execute project, vendor capability or past capacity to provide right manpower as per project execution status, flexibility to match project requirement and cooperation history.

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    Leonel Rodrigues

    Connectivity Solutions Manager | Market Strategies and Digital Transformation | Consultative Sales and Product Development

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    When managing multiple projects with vendors, prioritize based on urgency, impact, and resources. Start by evaluating deadlines and any critical deliverables that could affect operations. Next, assess the potential business impact—focus on projects that offer the highest return or mitigate the most significant risks. Consider resource availability, including the vendor's responsiveness and capabilities. If any project delays could disrupt other tasks, give it priority. Regular communication with stakeholders helps ensure alignment, making it easier to prioritize projects effectively while maintaining healthy vendor relationships.

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    Rasika Pawar
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    When managing multiple interrelated projects, prioritization can be approached through a few factors like Assess Alignment with Goals, Evaluate Impact and Value, Consider Dependencies, Resource Availability, Risk Analysis, Stakeholder Input, Timeline Considerations. By systematically analyzing these factors, you can make informed decisions on which projects to prioritize to ensure optimal outcomes.

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    MURAME David

    Field Line Manager ||Nokia || Airtel Rwanda MS Project

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    Projects with tighter deadlines it’s time-sensitive should taken into priorities, and by reviewing the agreements or SLAs with vendors, If there are specific delivery dates or milestones, ensure those are met first.

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    Henry Herold

    Independent Construction Professional

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    typically would be something like. Completion date, accessibility, cost, work load, manpower, equipment. But that’s my process. But you always go with. The suggestion of your manager//supervisor

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    Mohamed Soliman

    Senior UC Consultant | PMP® | ACP®

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    Project Prioritization on Many projects should be done based on Business Values for the customer so projects with high value comes first and if projects have same value so priority should done based on low risks.

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    Tony Bartulin

    Telecommunications Professional | UAV Entrepreneur

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    Most business is hectic these days dealing with multiple projects that hold different importance for different groups. Early understanding of new equipment and its requirement's can be critical to decisions for your resources to be most efficient. The most important projects are those that are deemed (usually by higher management) critical, to be operational by a specific date. To not jeopardize the financing or timing of any committed projects, organize required equipment & personal as soon as possible. Finally, to keep a groups hard built reputation for reliability, one must work to complete client projects for the cost & time that had been promised with minimal reasons for the need to explain delays.

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    Deep Parmar

    Engineering Manager and Technologist | Ace of Professional Engineering

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    Priority will depend upon impact. Impact will depend upon organisational stakes. Stakes will depend upon relationships. Relationships will depend upon terminal changes. Terms will depend upon the company values. Values will dictate results. And these results will be prioritised based on individual projects.

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