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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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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO

Program analyst/manager Working closely with project managers, program analysts and managers oversee programs and projects within an organization to ensure they’re on track and on budget. As demand for this role has grown, salaries for MIS managers have increased by 11% since 2021, according to Dice.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management. They partner with agile delivery leaders responsible for delivering releases on time and meeting quality standards, including non-functional security, performance, and reliability acceptance criteria.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. data, security, development, architecture) as well. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? But that doesn’t answer the question.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. Double down on vendor management.

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Automating compliance in software delivery

CircleCI

One emerging challenge that developers and IT leaders face is the need to stay compliant with regulations and control frameworks that stipulate comprehensive data security, incident response, and monitoring and reporting requirements. Compliance requirements can add significant overhead to an organization.