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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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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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The demand for project managers has grown, with salaries for this role increasing by 15.6% Key skills for the role include resource allocation, risk and change management, quality assurance, communication, and leadership and team building. percent since 2021, according to Dice.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. as of January.

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Leadership in Cybersecurity

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Defining the position of the lead security person in an enterprise can be a challenging and sometimes confusing task. There are various job titles such as; Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Risk Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), V.P., IT Security, V.P., or Director of Information Security.

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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. Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management.

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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. If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. data, security, development, architecture) as well.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

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Other responsibilities may include addressing digital transformation initiatives, guiding application development, and identifying security issues. A fractional CIO may be tapped to head a specific initiative requiring senior IT leadership guidance, allowing the busy, full-time CIO to focus attention on other critical issues.