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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. Benefits of vendor management. Left unmanaged, vendor partnerships can quickly fall behind.

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

CIO

Rising prices have imposed tough challenges on IT budgets, operations and staffing, especially for global organizations with operations in countries where inflation has been running high, such as Poland (10%), India (8%) or Turkey (50%). IT organizations can save substantial amounts on SaaS contracts by lowering service levels, CIOs say.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Years of expensive overshoots, canceled projects, and poor quality solutions gave IT not just a bad reputation, but a confrontational relationship with its host business. Somewhere along the way, the “products not projects” mantra took root and, seeing this as a logical evolution, the captive IT function decided to transform itself again.