Framework
How Lean Companies Should Govern Technology Vendors
A lightweight governance model for lean companies: vendor ownership, decision rights, review cadence, data controls, integration accountability, and exit planning.
Lean does not mean unmanaged
A lean company can avoid a large IT function and still govern technology well. The key is assigning ownership, creating review cadence, and keeping vendor accountability visible.
- • Name one business owner and one technical owner for each critical platform.
- • Document what the vendor owns, what the company owns, and where handoffs occur.
- • Review cost, adoption, incidents, roadmap dependency, data access, and exit risk quarterly.
- • Avoid letting every team select tools independently without integration and security review.
Executive discipline
The best lightweight governance model is simple enough to operate and strong enough to prevent avoidable platform sprawl, data fragmentation, and vendor lock-in.
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