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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Why are we really going to cloud?

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Elements Of Reputation: Traits That Indicate A Thoughtful Tech GTM Strategy

Forrester IT

How can enterprise buyers gauge if their vendor partner has a robust internal strategy and thus […]. These questions are as fundamental for every organization as it is for every individual personally. Trusting a company is even more critical from a buyer perspective.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

AI is being used in other ways in the enterprise as well, to do things like improve the efficiency of the supply chain, facilitate customer interactions, and help employees perform office tasks. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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Explore Real-Time Interaction Management Solution Options With The Latest Forrester Wave™

Forrester IT

My colleague Joe Stanhope and I have previously written about how The Future Of Enterprise Marketing Technology hinges on marketing alignment with customer experience (CX) strategies. But brands must Align Strategy And Technology To Deliver Next-Gen Personalization, and […].

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