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6 best practices for better vendor management

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To ensure vendor relationship help their organizations achieve their goals, IT leaders should establish a comprehensive technology vendor management strategy focused on maximizing fit and value. It is also important to involve your key vendors in strategy and planning sessions related to their services or products,” Gilgour says.

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How the C-Suite Can Champion Sustainability Across the Enterprise

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In a recent survey of 1,500 global executives, about three in four executives (78%) cite technology as critical for their future sustainability efforts, attesting that it helps transform operations, socialize their initiatives more broadly, and measure and report on the impact of their efforts.

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Author E. Freya Williams has a Message for Tech Leaders

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They all shared six characteristics that account for their uncommon success: Iconoclastic leader: In all cases, one individual emerged as the spiritual leader of the strategy. That’s because this is not about creating a slightly greener version; it’s about a business transformation. In the U.S.,

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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

CIO

Sanchez-Reina also described such investment as a two-for-one strategy, bringing together financial performance with an organisation’s environmental and social values, thereby appeasing customers, employees and investors.

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Unified Collaboration: How Social Business and Other Forms of Digital Engagement are Intertwining

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

As collaboration has evolving during the rise of the social and mobile era, I’ve found that the last decade in particular has lead to some of the most significant and increasingly disruptive refinements in the practice: Social Business (internal). The three new categories of digital collaboration. Unified Communications.

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The Strategic Value of Social Business: What We’ve Learned

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Recently, I had the need to gather our latest research from research, clients, and case studies on the established performance of social business for the Future of Work master class I delivered in Paris at Enterprise 2.0 By this, I largely mean the design and deployment of enterprise social networks to create better business outcomes.

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The big changes forcing PostNord to digitally restructure

CIO

Replacing the production platform Right now, PostNord is undergoing multiple transformations simultaneously to achieve its projected business goals. In addition to reduced costs and efficiencies, the strategy is to be a leader in the highly competitive parcel market, and become the first choice in the Nordic market.