Lisa Hardy
Strategic sourcing and diversity manager, Office of Procurement Services, IU Bloomington
Lisa Hardy is the first to admit she’s a Microsoft Teams newbie, but every day she’s learning more tips and tricks to help her become more efficient in her job at IU’s Office of Procurement Services.
As strategic sourcing and diversity manager, Lisa mostly works on multi-million-dollar, enterprise-wide Request for Proposals (RFPs), which often involve large stakeholder committees and/or committees made up of IU’s top administrators.
MS Teams gives her a centralized system to manage documents and emails related to RFP processes—an ideal way to manage those large committees with many busy individuals. She creates folders to organize documents and compile notes, feedback, and Q&A.
“My end game is to make the RFP process as simple as possible for committee members so they can find the files they need, and to streamline how I reach out to them,” Lisa said. “I can’t be sending 500 emails back and forth because it just lends itself to too much error.”
She values having one place to store the vendor information, presentation feedback, and other sensitive documents, and to be able to gather everyone’s input in one place. “It’s important to be able to document the audit trail, so people can find it when they need to.”
