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6 best practices for better vendor management

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And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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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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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. “It

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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A wider world of IT partners “We are witnessing a paradigm shift where enterprises are not just increasing their number of partnerships but also diversifying the types of partners they work with,” says Harshul Asnani , president of technology, media, and entertainment at Tech Mahindra. Double down on vendor management.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode. Technology modernization without purposeful application produces novelty at best.

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

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In an IT marketplace marked by turbulence, inflation, and economic uncertainty, the process of contracting with vendors for technology products and services has gotten significantly more challenging for CIOs. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.”

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

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But many are finding that the technology on the market doesn’t yet live up to the hype. There’s indeed a lot of hype around the latest wave of large language models (LLM) and associated tools, yet beneath the noise, there’s a whisper about how the technology will one day become indispensable. The big question is what to do with it now.