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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. 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

CIO

Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. As organizations across every industry take on digital transformation, having project managers to help lead IT projects is a top priority.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

The agile methodologies and tools differ by organization and sometimes by team, but what team leaders really want is the autonomy to make quick decisions around priorities, solutions, and technologies. CIOs should look to revitalize their program management offices (PMOs) from top-down compliance drivers to bottom-up service providers.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design. Both roles require a knowledge of cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services, as well as experience with ITSM , I&O, governance , automation, and vendor management.

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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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Patterns for Buying and Selling Software Services

The Agile Manager

The ideal firm knows our line of business: e.g., if we're a retailer, we want a solution firm that knows how to configure SAP for retail, knows some really neat shortcuts and tricks, and some obscure 3rd party vendors with some interesting tools targeted at retail.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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Perforce Software, a privately held provider of software development tools, has agreed to buy the infrastructure automation software platform Puppet. Perforce already owns development tools such as Helix and the testing tools, including Perfecto and BlazeMeter. Perforce Software buys Puppet. Atlassian buys Percept.ai.