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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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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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Quick Resource Guide To Help Organizations Scale Healthcare Support During COVID-19

Forrester IT

Forrester has curated a list of companies that are delivering virtual care services and support for health insurers, healthcare providers, employers, and consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. While some vendors initially offered temporary discounts or free services, many have discontinued these practices.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

Our customers are coming to us as a business partner asking for access to these crucial resources and we are doing the same with our customers to find mutually beneficial solutions.” Double down on vendor management. “It’s an opportunity to create more efficiencies and solutions by working and developing together,” says Manos.

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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. Automation is also paramount here, says the CIO at a major Europe-based manufacturer who asked that his name and company not be used. “We

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO Business Intelligence

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 With 738,000 employees and $3.8

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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.