The first item in the newsletter was an article by Chris Van Liew, Chief Information Officer, Weyerhaeuser Company titled CIO Says “I’m to Blame” if Vendors Don’t Deliver. To change our vendor’s, we need to change ourselves. MORE

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With the lack of details shared by service providers on what 5G services will involve — beyond what is initially available — enterprise sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders should require their carriers to provide detailed terms and data regarding current and planned coverage. Several service providers have launched commercial 5G services in a handful of markets, and others have announced plans for later in 2019 and beyond. MORE

There are 2 areas “Leadership and Management” and “Core Areas” that can be used. Leadership and Management: Strategic Leadership. People Management. Application Management. LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT. People Management. GOAL – Identify and manage capital projects. Network Management. Application Management. Technology vendor management. How do you measure the performance of a CIO? MORE

How do you know whether to keep these functions in house or partner with a managed service provider ? We’ve found that many businesses are choosing to opt for a managed service provider. Application management. Do you employ a security manager? 7) Vendor Management. MORE

Early last week, Ajit Pai, the Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced his approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. This will result in a third mega-carrier in the US mobile wireless market, which is a good move for consumers like you and me. MORE

This continuously changing environment introduces an increasing variety of technologies and proliferation of assets to be managed. The i ncreasing demands of digital business challenge sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders responsible for IT asset management (ITAM) to implement and maintain a mature strategy for better governance, efficiency and business outcomes,” says Pamela Wheelwright, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner. MORE

Before you take on a new vendor, stop and consider the impact the relationship will have on your organization — will the vendor will be engaged in your most critical initiatives, systems or business processes? Does the vendor exhibit partnership-like traits? . Relationships with strategic vendors are increasingly key to business performance. When managed badly, large strategic vendors can become complacent, slow moving and intractable.”. MORE

CIOs and IT managers are adept at operating at the intersection of software design and data. Guest post by Barry Jaruzelski and Chris Curran. Do CIOs have a role in product development? Some say no. Call on the CTO or CDO or CMO. MORE

Inquiring into a VDI environment to increase manageability, reduce costs. In a recent Forrester Research report, " Shifting from Rules to Guardrails " there are some good observations of how IT (and the CIO) have to transform from being technologists to becoming brokers, vendor managers, and providers of technology governance: "We see a blurring boundary between business and IT. CIO.com: Consumerization of IT taking its Toll on IT managers. IT Financial Management. (4). MORE

Vendor management once meant squeezing service providers for the lowest costs. That approach won't fly today. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story MORE

age of the customer Agile agile procurement sourcing vendor managementIn any conversation focused on Agile, it takes some time to figure out what each party means when they use the term. MORE

Jackson , NJVC Vice President and General Manager, Cloud Services, is cloud. Jackson, NJVC Vice President and General Manager, Cloud. people helping people, not managing technology.”. brokerage with (vendor management and integration included) marks the. MORE

Last week, I wrote about the move toward cybersecurity vendor and technology consolidation, along with a growing emphasis on technology integration in the enterprise. There is an element of simplifying purchasing and vendor management, but most CISOs want tools that work together so they can improve security prevention/detection while streamlining operations. MORE

How can enterprise buyers gauge if their vendor partner has a robust internal strategy and thus […]. How do you build reputation? How do you gain trust and sustain it? These questions are as fundamental for every organization as it is for every individual personally. MORE

That world of homogenous IT technology managed entirely by the internal IT organization has long disappeared. Operations today require efficient and global management of technologically heterogeneous environments. The final trend is around management and overhead. MORE

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. IT financial management skills development, training etc. MORE

Enterprise Risk Management. vendor management. Brand Risk Enterprise Risk Management Governance Risk and Compliance Netflix Ransomware Security and Risk hacking third party data vendor managementNetflix recently experienced a third-party breach. The data lost is Season 5 of Orange is the New Black, which is original Netflix content. Many are calling it the largest entertainment industry hack since Sony. I guess that is right, but how bad is it really? MORE

How do you know whether to keep these functions in house or partner with a managed service provider ? We’ve found that many businesses are choosing to opt for a managed service provider. Application management. Do you employ a security manager? 7) Vendor Management. MORE

sourcing & vendor management sourcing strategy & execution user experienceWe habitually use metrics, even when they are not relevant. Our instincts are based on deeply engrained responses to situations and inherent investment biases (time & cost). MORE

The role is often tasked with pursuing multiple abstract goals such as “ driving innovation ,” “identifying emerging technologies ” or simply “managing IT operations.” The chief technology officer (CTO) is one of the least understood and most broad of all C-suite positions. MORE

Absent an experienced vendor management group on the IT side of the table, the two parties in a sales presentation are badly mismatched. The vendor’s representatives spend all their time doing exactly this, whereas most IT buyers send people who use technology, but don’t buy it for a living. Few IT leaders recognize when a salesperson is exaggerating product capabilities (or omitting limitations). MORE

As innovation and security become increasingly linked, senior IT managers must change how they hire and develop information security staff. Product security specialists/managers. Security service manager. Security marketing and communications manager. MORE

With many agencies and other government organizations not yet viewing technology as a key component of their overall strategy, sales reps from vendor firms have focused less on helping with innovation and more on providing current state services, as requested, for the lowest possible cost. MORE

Guest post by Suheb Siddiqui and Chetan Shetty. A veteran CIO recently told me, “The last few months felt like I time traveled back to the 1980s. Business stakeholders are demanding the applications they want, designed the way they like, and at a speed dictated by their priorities.” MORE

Managing data security and consumer privacy. Heading into a new decade, the gap between internal systems which may have worked well for the last decade, or even longer, aren’t relevant anymore,” says Patsy Nearkhou, Marketing Manager at Talkative. MORE

How to Shift from a "Finger Pointing" to a Problem Solving Culture Businesses "fail" for a multitude of reasons including economic conditions, vendor management, performance or production, industry regulations, expansion costs and the list goes on. MORE

  For example, at the recent VMworld there were perhaps 20 different storage array vendors, and my informal survey had most offerings using this approach.   Fewer vendors to deal with, greater buying power, standardized tools and operational processes, etc. MORE

Information Technology Blog - - Vendor Risk Management & Complying With GDPR - Information Technology Blog. Among these is putting in place a robust vendor risk management program to help in identifying, tracking, and monitoring your firm’s risk exposure. MORE

This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite. Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. MORE

Even with the vastly increased mobile usage, we still see some large gaps between what managers want on mobile versus the capabilities deployed to them. Top motivations for consolidation included easier vendor management, better support, and better integration. MORE

From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers. I just had lunch with a long-time business colleague who specializes in IT consulting and network systems integration for small and medium-sized businesses. Companies like my colleague’s are the backbone of the enormously large group of businesses MORE

Companies use the RFP process for selecting a new vendor or solution to show that they have: Established comprehensive requirements Considered and reduced risk An objective and transparent decision-making process Makes sense, right? If we were managing […]. MORE

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CIOs also report that 40% of their vendors support a specific business niche rather than provide broad range of solutions. This means that managing their performance often requires more time and oversight from already strained IT vendor managers at the buying firm. MORE

Organization-wide, staff must be educated on security risks and resulting policies surrounding BYOD, printing, third-party software, remote workers, legacy equipment, vendor management, social engineering, outdated-training and security policies, and public or poorly protected WiFi. MORE