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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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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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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

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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The overhype of generative AI was unavoidable last year, yet despite all the distraction, unproven benefits, and potential pitfalls, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute CIO Naomi Lenane didn’t want to ban the technology outright. But allowing free, unfettered use of the public gen AI platforms was not an option. Dana-Farber was no exception.

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

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The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7% Here’s how.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. That helps me plan.”

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3 key roles for driving digital success

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This is a question I am asked often by IT leaders who prefer slowing down the pace of transformation and technology innovation. But digital transformation remains a vital endeavor for today’s enterprise as it is about evolving the business and operating model and not just about modernizing technologies.