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100

This U.S. based company, founded in 2006, is a global AI-centered technology research and advisory firm with over 900 clients across 75 of the world’s top 100 enterprises

What is Information Services Group (ISG)?

100

Includes Ventana Research, AI & Big Data Analytics

What is Data and Analytics?

100

Refers to a harmonized understanding of strategic goals between advisor and client

What is alignment?

100

Create, Assess, Plan, Align, Build, Launch, Enable

What is the Change CAPABLE Delivery Method?

100

This metric measures how well employees adopt new behaviors or systems

What is a KPI?

200

This integration model supports decision-making on strategic direction for AI & Big Data for organizations

What is designing an AI Operating Model?

200

Customer-centric team that offers Relationship Health, Workforce Experience Assessment, and Leadership/Sponsorship Alignment Optimization

What is the Customer Experience Center?

200

A delivery framework characterized by the ability to adapt quickly in iterative sprints

What is Agile?

200

This methodology focuses on Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement

What is ADKAR?

200

In ADKAR, the "K" stands for this essential component of successful change and adoption

What is "Knowledge"?

300

Strategies, tools, or initiatives designed to speed up the adoption and effectiveness of change

What is an accelerator?

300

Comprehensive research for enterprise decisions and provider discovery with real-world practitioner insights 

What is ISG Provider Lens®?

300

The cultural shift needed for enterprise and organizational transformation

What is a Mindset Shift?

300

This delivery model provides scalable, on-demand training across the enterprise

What is Training as a Service (TaaS)?

300

Stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization

What is EBITDA?

400

In 2025, this brand used autonomous AI agents for end-to-end supply chain orchestration and real-time compliance monitoring

What is Amazon?

400

May be employed at stages of the Sourcing lifecycle including Price, Cost, Contract, and Performance

What is ProBenchmark?

400

These terms go hand in hand and refer to aligning digital tools with business strategy

What is System Implementation (SI) and Digital Transformation?

400

Examines the macro-environmental factors that influence an organization

What is PESTLE Analysis?

400

Request for Proposal

What is an RFP?

500

________ supports the Managed Service Provider (MSP) environment enabling smooth transitions and adoption  

What is Sourcing?

500

Includes Public Sector Services

What is GovernX®?

500

Being familiar with or knowledgeable about something, especially through experience or study

What is conversant?

500

This model includes steps like “Create urgency” and “Build a guiding coalition.”

What is Kotter's 8-Steps for Leading Change?

500

Enterprise Resource Planning

What is ERP?