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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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Vendor management for telecoms networks

Spearline Testing

For such networks, vendor management is a crucial aspect of maintaining successful operations. Vendor management. Many have developed very impressive methodologies to leverage the Spearline platform and objectively measure carrier performance. Spearline puts the power into the hands of their customers.

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Here’s How To Get Your S/4HANA Migration Plans Under Control

Forrester IT

Given the current rate of client conversion, fewer than 50% of SAP ECC customers will have completed their transformation to S/4 by 2027. Furthermore, about 13,000 ECC customers are on EHPs 0–5, with support only up to 2025 and calling for an even more urgent decision on the future of their ERP. Moreover, 90% of […]

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How To Adjust Your Tech Budget To Survive Or Thrive In The Pandemic Recession

Forrester IT

The old playbook for how CIOs can manage tech budgets through tough times will not work for today’s pandemic. While CIOs and their business partners are under intense pressure to cut tech budgets, technology plays a vital role in business survival and success during this recession.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

A fractional CIO’s responsibilities typically include IT team management, budget development and supervision, specifying technology investments, and providing guidance on IT systems and governance, he says. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states.

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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

These tactics can be implemented across multiple established relationships—with senior leaders that previously worked for the consultant, relationships developed via prior projects, and relationships established with the consultant at a prior company. IT Management, Vendor Management

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

The self-service chatbot developed at Albemarle evolved into a tool to help with other corporate functions, which then developed into a virtual personal assistant that manages federated workflows, making it easier for employees to work with several systems at once without having to log into all of them. “It