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6 best practices for better vendor management

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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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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization. Generative AI is also poised to dramatically speed up the whole process, says Rajib Gupta, senior director advisor in Gartner’s IT sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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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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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

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AI is being used in other ways in the enterprise as well, to do things like improve the efficiency of the supply chain, facilitate customer interactions, and help employees perform office tasks. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

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Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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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