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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

“Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Everest Group. Seek cultural affinity and ethical alignment. Double down on vendor management.

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

CIO

IT leaders may find that prices are going up without an accompanying increase in benefits, with technology providers — less dependent on any one industry or geography — taking a harder line on deals, says Achint Arora, a partner in the pricing assurance practice at Everest Group. The group of stakeholders keeps growing.”

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

“This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO

IT aligned for digital transformation Banca Etica is also adopting a new culture that interprets IT as a partner to the business, and not as an IT manager. The third is the ongoing cultural shift revolutionizing not only how IT is viewed but the roles within the CIO’s team.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

To do this well, IT leaders should uncover the key objectives of each stakeholder, tie those objectives back to enterprise business goals, and align everyone on common goals through top-down discussions and mandates, says Mukesh Ranjan, vice president in the IT services team at Everest Group.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

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This could be a principal engineer or assigned to a group of people, e.g. the product engineering team. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

This could be a principal engineer or assigned to a group of people, e.g. the product engineering team. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation.