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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

As SaaS and other technology companies began to abandon traditional project management, product-based IT became a bold shift to business value. Moreover, in companies that develop non-technology customer-facing products, applying the term product management in IT can conflict with other departmental responsibilities.

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9 principles to improve IT supplier relationship management

CIO Business Intelligence

Develop a relationship management program A relationship management program is a key part of working with IT suppliers to help keep your interests fully aligned. Some companies even conduct them quarterly. These checks arent just focused on performance, but also look at the relationship as a whole.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Limitations of CCMO tools There’s a lot of room for improvement in cloud cost management.

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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

After the show, we spent time discussing how he drives digital innovation, inspires an innovative culture, and equips people across the company with the capabilities to thrive in a digital world. So we truly are a global company, with team members around the world. What are you doing around AI to set the company up to win?

Strategy 279
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3 musts when recruiting vendors for AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Some organizations, like imaging and laser printer company Lexmark, have found ways of fencing in the downside potential so they can benefit from the huge upside. Its more common for smaller vendors to deliver point solutions to specific problems that may not have the level of connectivity and robustness that enterprises require.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Today, as CEO of SaaS provider DoubleCheck, he feels the push and pull between what his customers pay, and forecasting how thatll affect the companys CSP charges on the back end.

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