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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. Benefits of vendor management. Left unmanaged, vendor partnerships can quickly fall behind.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

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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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. D ue diligence pays off.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. Here’s how.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. Average salary : US$155,934 Increase from 2021 : n/a 3.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Looking at the current technological and organizational paradigm, we can only recognize the world is massively different from 10 or 20 years ago. No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. Do we need architects anyway?