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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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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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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

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A fractional CIO’s responsibilities typically include IT team management, budget development and supervision, specifying technology investments, and providing guidance on IT systems and governance, he says. What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs? What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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3 key roles for driving digital success

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To help close this digital maturity gap and drive digital transformation as a core competency, CIOs and their leadership colleagues must establish and enlist digital transformation leaders across the enterprise. When working with teams, they should simplify vendor management and reporting, including financial and other KPIs.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design. It’s a role that not only requires technical skills, but also leadership and communication skills as well to work across departments and to manage teams of engineers.

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

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If you get your governance, security, and your data ingestion right, generative AI can help scale a small company into a big company — and a lean one,” says Thompson. “My Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Establishing cloud governance and FinOps teams is also critical to get the information CIOs need to ensure cloud operational costs continue to align with business imperatives. Those teams should measure the efficiency of cloud spend, optimize costs, analyze spend, and issue reports to leadership, says Vunvulea.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. 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.

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