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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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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

CIO Business Intelligence

JLR’s move to electric drive trains is part of a wider business transformation the company calls Reimagine, under which it also plans to halve greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain and operations, compared to 2019 levels, by 2030, and to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2039.

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

Future of CIO

In these forward-look organizations, IT has moved from providing largely back-office support to becoming the prime facilitator, enabler, and orchestrator of the total business. The increasing opportunity to externalize more IT infrastructure services (such as cloud) and business process apps is great news for CIOs, not a threat.

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The Holistic IT Governance

Future of CIO

How can the "competition" for finite dollars be structured so that the end game, best benefit for the enterprise, is achieved? Starting with the board sponsorship: Make the recognition by the BoD and officer team that the IT dollars are enterprise resource and are finite, and must be leveraged to the benefit of the enterprise.

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

CIO Business Intelligence

With technology now a pervasive enabler of all aspects of the business, CIOs have the end-to-end visibility and cross-functional insights that other executives lack, not to mention oversight of key enterprise assets such as data and analytics. “We

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