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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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Agile Procurement In Government Is Not An Oxymoron

Forrester IT

In my early research on Agile procurement in government (and Agile procurement in general), almost all of those conversations quickly devolved into what groups were doing Agile software development. But digital government is much broader […].

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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. Many of the new skills are in rare supply, as are team leaders experienced in this new development paradigm.”

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

He uses external providers and in-house developers to write connective “tissue” code to provide integration capabilities. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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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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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

UT’s ongoing research into the world’s most successful outsourcing relationships, including those from Dell’s and the Canadian government , has uncovered five key rules for establishing win-win strategic partnerships that work collaboratively to achieve business outcomes. Elect an insight (vs.