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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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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO

Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. Data protection and privacy: Ensuring compliance with data regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

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Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key

CIO

As research suggests, the potential benefits of generative AI (genAI) adoption far outweigh the challenges, making it imperative for businesses to adopt a strategic approach toward scaling their AI implementation while observing guidelines for ESG compliance. Compliance and governance. ESG compliance. Resource utilization.

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Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

CIO

Executives need to understand and hopefully have a respected relationship with the following IT dramatis personae : IT operations director, development director, CISO, project management office (PMO) director, enterprise architecture director, governance and compliance Director, vendor management director, and innovation director.

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Grand Bank's Success Story: Enhancing Vendor Management with Ivanti's External Attack Surface Management Solution

Ivanti

Forrester highlights that EASM is crucial for thorough due diligence, especially during mergers and acquisitions, where uncovering hidden vendor assets is vital for assessing risk. It offers an automated, comprehensive vendor management approach that continuously monitors vendors' attack surfaces, assesses and mitigates risks.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO

In addition, can the business afford an agentic AI failure in a process, in terms of performance and compliance? The IT department uses Asana AI Studio for vendor management, to support help-desk requests, and to ensure its meeting software and compliance management requirements. Feaver asks.

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AI governance platforms wait for customers to catch up

CIO

Each, however, introduced risks, such as compliance, bias, and ethics concerns that required an AI governance strategy. The investment management company first developed the ethical and responsible AI (ERAI) framework, which governs the full lifecycle of AI from intake and risk classification to model validation and ongoing monitoring.