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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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As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. percent since 2021, according to Dice.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

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Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management. They partner with agile delivery leaders responsible for delivering releases on time and meeting quality standards, including non-functional security, performance, and reliability acceptance criteria.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design.

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

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But despite such challenges, CIOs say they’re meeting them head on. Also, consider leveraging a project management office to ease some of the burdens of inflation. PMOs streamline projects, which ultimately help organizations meet rapidly evolving needs.” And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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NetApp added some new functionality to its portfolio of cloud management tools in late February with the acquisition of Fylamynt, a young low-code cloud ops automation company. SaaS vendor management platform Vendr is buying SaaS management platform vendor Blissfully.