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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

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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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

However, this approach comes with its own sets of challenges such as compliance issues, misaligned workplace culture, and privacy concerns.” Seek cultural affinity and ethical alignment. Dun & Bradstreet’s Manos recommends regular check-ins where key goals, metrics, and objectives are reviewed.

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Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs

Honeycomb

Amperity’s observability depended on a suite of tools for logs, metrics, and dashboards. Managing this array of tools demanded diverse skill sets and a significant amount of tribal knowledge to navigate them. The challenge? As people see these improvements unfolding, they gain confidence in the impact of their contributions.

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

CIO

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” There are an increasing range of technologies and providers.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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5 rules that transform outsourcing outcomes

CIO

The model offers a significant shift away from the transaction-based model commonly used in IT oursourcing arrangements, and its rules resolve several structural flaws that can emerge in transaction-based and managed servicesagreements. oversight) governance structure The Vested model shifts from a culture of oversight to one of insight.

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Just Exactly What Should A CIO Do During Their First 100 Days?

The Accidental Successful CIO

You can use the synergy targets as an opportunity to develop a vendor management capability in IT. Use this as an opportunity to teach your team about SLAs, vendor scorecards, and cost optimization. Keep in mind that driving transformation is all about people, culture, process, and strategy. Operational. Operational.