CIO

AUGUST 22, 2023

As such, organizations must evolve their digital strategies with market changes, such as the shift to remote work in 2020, the evolution to hyperautomation in 2022, and how generative AI will now require CIOs to overhaul their roadmaps. Another study of 4,000 global organizations found that only 44% had a high digital maturity.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO thinks beyond technical needs and considers the needs of the organization from a strategic business perspective.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 Digital Transformation

Systems Review 246

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. That helps me plan.”

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals. Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

TCS and lots of other Tata organizations are already pushing the boundaries in many of these areas,” he says, so he’s looking at collaborations there. It’s a big project for us in terms of defining our strategy for data and AI, but also for automation.” It’s been a great success,” says Battle.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

One, conducted by Salesforce, found fewer than 3% of commerce organizations have no AI plans, while 29% have already fully implemented it into their workflows. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Microsoft, Predictive Analytics, Retail Industry, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. For example, strategy building skills enable IT teams to unlock new business opportunities.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Arwa Kaddoura has worked for nearly 20 years in cloud GTM strategies and scaling startups and large enterprises. Enablement includes everything from access to additional resources, volume discounts and navigating security, to vendor management, procurement and understanding product roadmaps. Arwa Kaddoura. Contributor.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

But over the long-term, building in-house may be the better option for organizations that need to tailor models to their industry, or those that want to push the AI out to the edge and run inference on devices that aren’t connected to cloud-based services. Another advantage of buying is it makes adoption quicker and easier.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” This tends to be driven by a position-based negotiation strategy.”

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Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

We discuss Liz’s strategy for keeping her team constantly engaged, the ways in which she studies parallel industries to innovate within her own, and how she and her team are using AI to bring the healthcare staffing field into the future. Today we’re talking to Liz Cunningham, Vice President, Digital at AMN Healthcare.

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Software asset management tools are specialized software applications designed to help organizations manage and optimize their software assets throughout their lifecycle. This helps organizations avoid legal and financial risks associated with non-compliance.

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Tools Software Compliance AWS 91

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Obasi explains that he wanted Prospa to have organic traction void of the growth driven by hype and media noise. Alongside providing banking services, he says Prospa offers invoicing tools, inventory management, employee and vendor management, an e-commerce store, and payroll features. startup-focused financial product.

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Small Business Banking Software Fintech 258

Palo Alto Networks

MAY 22, 2020

It is not simple to prevent intruders from penetrating an organization. With a cybersecurity landscape dominated by fragmented security vendors and tools, businesses struggle to protect themselves. Collaborative Partnerships with MSSPs Lead the Way to More Secure Organizations. Nobody can stop sophisticated cyber threats alone.

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Malware Network Vendor Management Data Center 98

Cloudera

OCTOBER 6, 2022

CIO blog post : “Digital transformation is a foundational change in how an organization delivers value to its customers.”. Wikipedia : “ Digital transformation (DX ) is the adoption of digital technology by an organization.”. Strategies to maximize impact. Redundancy is often a culprit in organizations.

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Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

Unfortunately, not all vendors are created equally. To remain compliant, organizations need vendors who match their cybersecurity risk tolerance levels. Why Is Vendor Management Important to Cybersecurity? Organizations depend on third-party vendors to create cloud and hybrid IT infrastructures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The company chose a price disruption strategy to swiftly dethrone Samsung from its leadership position in the Indian smartphone market, making it one of the trailblazers in the first wave of cheap, sub-$200 smartphones. “Indian vendors were just not able to compete in any of these levers — product, marketing, channel, etc.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

Despite a wide range of cybersecurity strategies and investment levels, we’ve found that most enterprise security programs have lots of room for improvement to better prevent, identify, investigate and mitigate threats with speed and confidence. Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing? Technology.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. As a company, managing your supply chain, organizing shipments and coordinating your efforts with other companies takes a lot of planning and effort. Get Better At Returns.

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Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Tenable found that, as of October 1, 2022: 72% of organizations remain vulnerable to Log4Shell. Nearly one third of North American organizations have fully remediated Log4j (28%), followed by Europe, Middle East and Africa (27%), Asia-Pacific (25%) and Latin America (21%). What is patch management?" (TechTarget).

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GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

What had started as a technology gap analysis had turned into more of a venting session about the growing pains he was seeing in his organization. If “strategy” is how you define and implement a framework for success, strategic debt is what accrues when you neglect the necessary maintenance of that framework.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies. 10X in 10 Years – can this continue? “The

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Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

A wide array of cloud-based infrastructure and business systems is currently in use at most organizations, including virtual machines and containers as well as customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources management systems. But, cloud findings are hardly the only source.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

More and more, we're seeing corporate eCommerce chiefs who are "digital asset investors", responsible for the digital strategy and assets of a business. The proto-CIO is a strong technologist with vendor management and negotiating skills, with a steady-as-she-goes disposition.

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eCommerce Airlines Retail Leadership 45

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2023

The bet on Agile was successful and, within a few years, the IT organization had transformed itself into a strong, reliable partner: transparency into spend, visibility into delivery, high-quality software, value for money. Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. SD : What is ‘capabilities-driven strategy?’. Let’s go after it.”

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ParkMyCloud

MAY 29, 2019

Anecdotally, many organizations we talk to share that getting and keeping talent on board is a challenge as they seek to evolve their use of cloud services. In addition, they also have a strong knowledge of cloud services such as AWS, Google or Azure, with experience on ITSM, I&O, governance, automation, and vendor management.

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Trends Cloud IoT Artificial Inteligence 72

The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 16, 2021

The entire IT organization will want to know more about you, so your bio has to make a good impression. A key part of your administrative work is to make sure your vendors and partners are aware of your new role. You can start pulling ideas out of those conversations and shaping the strategy from one meeting to the next.

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Ivanti

APRIL 15, 2021

However, in this case, patching is not a temporary band-aid, but rather a proactive planned strategy. Patch management is more than just repairing and updating IT software. It remediates vulnerabilities and manages risk. Patching is a subset of risk-based prioritization, and software life-cycle management.

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Tenable

AUGUST 18, 2023

1 – CIS: Yes, Virginia, you can have solid cyber hygiene without breaking the bank When tasked with beefing up their cybersecurity foundation, organizations often struggle with basic questions. The 36-page document outlines how organizations can adopt the CIS’ first tier of safeguards – known as IG1 – contained within the 18 CIS Controls.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 10, 2020

Our wider Studio Engineering Organization has built more than 30 apps that help content progress from pitch (aka screenplay) to playback: ranging from script content acquisition, deal negotiations and vendor management to scheduling, streamlining production workflows, and so on.

Architecture 138

Architecture Transportation Microservices Testing 138

Kaseya

JANUARY 31, 2022

Attack surface management is an effective strategy to defend your digital and physical attack surfaces against potential cyberattacks through continuous visibility into your security vulnerabilities and quick remediation before they can be exploited by the attacker. How do you manage an attack surface? Manage access.

Firewall 52

Firewall Authentication Network Hardware 52

Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2021

It is often a non-revenue generating function of an organization that runs in the background, such as workforce management, payroll, IT management, etc. But more often than not, when we talk about managed services, we usually mean managed IT services. It costs them their reputation and the trust of their customers.

Security 52

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Altexsoft

MARCH 29, 2019

Drivers management. FMS keeps your driver records up-to-date, organized, and easily accessible from a central location. Besides inventory management and optimization, basic features include demand forecasting and replenishing, kitting, lot traceability, reporting and analysis, and vendor-managed inventory.

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