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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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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below. And that is the rub.

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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.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

It might cost us $1,000 per day per developer to outsource,” he says. And then there’s the extra complexity and costs associated with managing remote teams. When you outsource your software development team, they’re no longer your team,” he adds. And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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Increasing Your Recommendation-to-Interview Ratio with Hiring Managers

CodeSignal

Employers across all industries need highly qualified engineers who can develop innovative software applications, harness big data, design scalable systems, and maintain security in an increasingly connected business landscape. Why can’t your recruiters be more efficient when it comes to filling technical jobs?

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

CIO

With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.