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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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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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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. The demand for project managers has grown, with salaries for this role increasing by 15.6% percent since 2021, according to Dice. Average salary: US$120,653 Increase since 2021: 15.6%

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

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Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design. It’s a role that not only requires technical skills, but also leadership and communication skills as well to work across departments and to manage teams of engineers.

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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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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

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Like a conventional CIO, a full-time fractional CIO is responsible for an enterprise’s overall IT strategy and management, says Abhi Shrikhande, vice president and general manager of technology services at freelance talent network Toptal. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Budgeting & forecasting. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Managing enterprise risk tolerance.