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6 best practices for better vendor management

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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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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. 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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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization. Companies that do well have turned modernization into a process instead of an event. There are companies out there who think they should be writing everything because their definition of what is differentiating is so broad,” he says.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

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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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

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Double down on vendor management. IT Skills, IT Strategy, Outsourcing

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

CIO

Battle joined JLR as group chief digital and information officer in February 2022, after a long career managing IT for a succession of oil companies. There are plenty of software vendors willing to help with that — perhaps too many. It’s been a great success,” says Battle.