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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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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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#739 Cultivating Synergistic Environments & Teamwork with Liz Cunningham, Vice President of Digital Operations at AMN Healthcare

Modern CTO

The Company provides access to the most comprehensive network of quality healthcare professionals through its innovative recruitment strategies and breadth of career opportunities. About AMN Healthcare AMN Healthcare is the leader and innovator in total talent solutions for healthcare organizations across the nation.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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

CIO

You can recruit more senior people, where one person can replace three and make fewer mistakes, or downsize the teams, wait for the situation to change and rebuild later. And you have to partner with your vendors.” McKee sees two other ways to address the problem.

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Increasing Your Recommendation-to-Interview Ratio with Hiring Managers

CodeSignal

Last month, the company’s hiring manager requested your firm’s assistance in filling an open position for a full stack developer. Over the course of the engagement, your recruiters have recommended fifteen coders, but the hiring manager has only interviewed five candidates (and rejected the other ten).

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

CIO

CIOs’ expanding remit Hill was recruited to MSC specifically for the newly created role, which merged the different business functions into a digital organization better equipped to operate and scale at the pace of modern business.