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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

“Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Everest Group. Staff augmentation and outsourcing are nothing new. Double down on vendor management.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Blame it on “security” or “compliance” Make sure every task is tracked in a task tracker and has been reviewed, prioritized, and signed off by a group of at least five people.

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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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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

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IT leaders may find that prices are going up without an accompanying increase in benefits, with technology providers — less dependent on any one industry or geography — taking a harder line on deals, says Achint Arora, a partner in the pricing assurance practice at Everest Group. The group of stakeholders keeps growing.”

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

A lot of people focus on the metrics of diversity, but when you really look at it, inclusion is that sense of belonging, that trust in wanting to work at a place. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says. It’s death by 1,000 paper cuts. That’s the real issue.”.

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What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning systems explained

CIO

The CIO also advises the executive sponsor on challenges and helps the executive sponsor select a firm specializing in ERP implementations. The executive sponsor should also be advised by an organizational change management executive, as ERP implementations result in new business processes, roles, user interfaces, and job responsibilities.

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Secrets of business-driven IT orgs

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He has divided his 170 workers into two groups, with 60% of them focused 100% on digital transformation and the remainder focused on operational IT. Principal Financial Group CIO Kathy Kay takes a similar approach to Lieberman’s. He advises CIOs to join colleagues on sales calls to gain that insight. “If