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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

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. Last June, for example, Dun & Bradstreet launched D&B.AI

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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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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5 ways to measure and improve your QA Effectiveness; is your vendor up to the mark?

Trigent

The performance of software development can be measured by the difficulty and amount of code committed in a given sprint. The ‘right’ metrics to evaluate QA effectiveness depend on your organization. Hence the total number of tests in your test suite by itself isn’t a good metric or reflection of your test coverage.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

GreenBar

What had started as a technology gap analysis had turned into more of a venting session about the growing pains he was seeing in his organization. They were smart, successful managers focused on operating their business day-to-day. . For example, a marketing person is responsible for technical issues (or vice versa).

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Cloud Leaders Sound Off on Key Challenges

Tenable

When it comes to areas of investment related to deploying technology in the cloud, respondents identified serverless functions, virtual machines and containers as the top three technology types where they plan to expand adoption in the next 12 months. In which of the following areas is your risk exposure the highest?