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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 fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control." In honor of Halloween, it seems appropriate to address one of the scariest issues facing organizations today: vendor or supplier management.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. The requesting team works only at the application layer.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Patrick Thompson, former CIO and digital transformation officer at Albemarle Albemarle But in a few short months, generative AI is beginning to take traditional AI to another level for applications like predictive maintenance. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. Importantly, you should also indicate the goal for the workload (e.g.,

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO Business Intelligence

As businesses digitally transform, technology is increasingly integrated into every activity, and the CIO is becoming more of a catalyst for data-driven value creation through analytics, new AI model training, software development, automation, vendor engagement, and more.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

These are bottom-up standards crafted in partnership with agile teams, have applicability to how other teams operate, and ensure that best practices continuously evolve. When working with teams, they should simplify vendor management and reporting, including financial and other KPIs.

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