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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.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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But creating an inventory of existing workloads with key information about each one makes it much easier to make decisions on the cloud journey. This may become its own separate project, but it’s important during cloud strategy development to define what information should be collected about each workload, says Smith.

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

CIO

CIOs’ expanding remit Hill was recruited to MSC specifically for the newly created role, which merged the different business functions into a digital organization better equipped to operate and scale at the pace of modern business. I wasn’t just someone who was a functional leader that happens to have technology experience.

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

CIO

You need to make well informed, thoughtful, and purposeful decisions that balance cost, risk, and value,” he says. You can recruit more senior people, where one person can replace three and make fewer mistakes, or downsize the teams, wait for the situation to change and rebuild later. And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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12 strategic tips CIOs can learn from tech vendor CTOs

CIO

It can benefit all teams by providing the capacity to pivot and adapt as new information emerges.” This also means offering efficient and streamlined recruiting practices,’’ he says. “Go Robust vendor management, risk analysis, and a proactive security culture are essential when going through a third party, he says.

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Increasing Your Recommendation-to-Interview Ratio with Hiring Managers

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, “employment of computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13 percent from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations.” Last month, the company’s hiring manager requested your firm’s assistance in filling an open position for a full stack developer.