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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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How To Onboard Startups

Forrester IT

The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave. Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven. And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Double down on vendor management. Invest in workforce planning.

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The Holistic IT Governance

Future of CIO

It takes strategic and systematic thinking and a holistic IT governance approach in running an Agile IT. Digital IT is permeating into the very fabric or core processes in modern organizations, thus, IT governance is crucial to steering business in the right direction and make effective business decisions.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

They’re required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements. Systems architects are responsible for identifying technical solutions that align with the business goals and budget. Average salary: US$151,364 Increase from 2021 : 2.3% Careers, IT Jobs, Salaries

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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