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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Spooky, Scary Tales of Vendor Management

SecureWorld News

Five little vendors access your data. The first one said, "For this company, vendor management doesn't seem to matta." The third one said, "Silly company, in the event of a breach, it will be a nasty affair." The fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control."

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience.

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the first use cases of artificial intelligence in many companies, including both Michelin and Albemarle, was predictive maintenance, which at its most basic level is an algorithm trained on data collected by sensors. To fill the gap, many companies complement the real data with synthetic data.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent research found that application modernization took an average of 16 months. And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. It’s important to recognize that motion is not always progress.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Long is the list of “lifted and shifted” workloads that have resulted in cost overruns, emergency expense management, and performance issues. Do we have the right talent in place?

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