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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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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

After having spoken to numerous customers and vendors, its clear to me that cloud computings operational transformation necessarily triggers structural changes in the IT organization - as well as in the rest of the enterprise. CIO roles will shift to governance & vendor management (perhaps even modeling supply-chain management).

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Fountainhead: A Leading Indicator of "Consumerized IT"?

Fountainhead

And they shocked me with their challenges, ones which I assumed only large enterprises had. And then it dawned on me: These guys actually more of a "leading indicator" than most their commercial enterprise cousins. IT Financial Management. (4). Power Management. (37). Enterprise Efficiency. Enterprise Efficiency.

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

Future of CIO

Some leading companies already move beyond the IT/business alignment stage, well jump into IT engagement era --more adapt to today's cloud/social/ mobile ecosystem, to brand IT less as a utility, more as a differentiator. IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage.

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Three “T” Factors in Running a Digital IT

Future of CIO

Effective CIOs can help orchestrate such change in organizational structure (vertical), working structure (horizontal), and social structure through the latest digital technology. It will mean that the enterprise view, customer contact, GRC and vendor management are the most important elements of an IT organization.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Goyal has 16 years’ experience in IT Innovation, activation, operation, project management, and systems management. Prior to joining Apollo Tyres, he spent 13 years at Unilever, where he managed the IT infrastructure of Unilever’s largest shared support centre and enterprise and technology solutions outsourcing facility in Bangalore.