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

CIO

Review strategy before considering cuts To deal with rising costs, CIOs say they’re reviewing options such as staff cuts and downgrading service level agreements, as well as ways to increase productivity to combat labor cost increases and other price pressures. They’ve found a way to put 25% increases back into the cost of software.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Many organizations are due to revisit their cloud strategies, as their businesses have changed and vendor offerings have matured,” says Brian Alletto, technology director at digital services consultancy West Monroe. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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Don’t Let Strategic Debt Suffocate Your Organization

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He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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12 strategic tips CIOs can learn from tech vendor CTOs

CIO

CIOs are increasingly doing more software development and technology-focused work as part of their digital transformations, making the adage “every company is a software company” more of a truism with each digital wave. These approaches foster collaboration, reduce time-to-market, and improve software quality.”