Demand Supply Governance is a skill in high demand because of the following: * Ever faster technology advances, pressures on costs and service levels causes pressure on the IT departments to deliver.* Outsourcing has made the market more competitive* IT departments are poor at demonstrating and publicizing their added value. The Demand Supply Governance discipline addresses these issues by focusing on:* Encouraging services, as required by and agreed upon with the business, which are actually delivered to the business: on time and in accordance with the agreed upon quality specifications, and at an acceptable level of costs.* Increasing the added value of IT and making it manifest This title looks at the key frictions of encouraging IT Supply to meet Business Demand. By encouraging a pro-active approach this title suggests that IT departments can dramatically improve their profile and their services to the organization It describes an established framework with a key set of principles as well as practical issues such as roles, organization and implementation.This title supports the Sourcing Governance Foundation Qualification.SGF Qualification also qualifies an individual for COS-FP certification from IAOP®.