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6 best practices for better vendor management

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And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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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 Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

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As it faced its latest challenge, Accenture chose SAP Fieldglass , a vendor management system for services procurement and external workforce organization, to provide reporting and analytics. Meeting changing markets and business demands The function was deployed back in 2020 in the first of many country-by-country rollouts.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. Double down on vendor management. To manage these relationships, IT organizations need robust vendor management processes , says West Monroe’s Wright.

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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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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

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Rather that having to build something themselves from the ground up, they could leverage the native cloud solutions available through AWS and then tailor them to meet their specific requirements. CIO, Data Management, Data Quality, ICT Partners, IT Leadership, Travel and Hospitality Industry, Vendor Management

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JLR revs up AI and intelligent automation initiatives

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Skills development While automation helped JLR avoid the need to hire a bunch of data entry clerks, like any other enterprise undergoing a big technology transformation, it’s had to hire or train up staff to meet the demand for new skills. It’s an incredible proposition for any tech professional.”