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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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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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3 lessons that CIOs learned in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Organization-wide, staff must be educated on security risks and resulting policies surrounding BYOD, printing, third-party software, remote workers, legacy equipment, vendor management, social engineering, outdated-training and security policies, and public or poorly protected WiFi. Of course not!

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. in larger organizations) are specialized around applications, servers, networking, backup, etc. However, in the future many of these functions will either become more automated and/or combine with (be embedded within) other service management functions.

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Is Business-IT Alignment a Paradox? From Alignment to Engagement

Future of CIO

In addition, the real Paradox is that IT depends on the business to define their technology requirements but the business does not understand the capabilities of technology and it is difficult for them to provide functional requirements for applications. Is Business-IT Alignment a paradox?

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Jai Menon has joined Skylo, a narrow-band satellite communications provider that targets IoT applications, as CIO. He will run the company’s ERP and order management systems, and manage IT support, business and operations support systems, networking, and security. Satellite comms provider Skylo hires Jai Menon as CIO.