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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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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO Business Intelligence

And sometimes pulling the plug is the best course forward. Budgetary funding is reduced or gets deferred In the last budget process, everyone was so excited about the project that you received all the funding you asked for. Of course, employee retention efforts can help here, as can knowing the most common reasons top talent leaves.

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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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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors. The most obvious one is a significant number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the vendor community.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

The certification covers high-level topics such as organizational structure, budgeting, managing risk, monitoring and assigning deliverables, communicating with remote teams and executives, and managing complex large-scope projects.

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3 lessons that CIOs learned in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Of course not. Organization-wide, staff must be educated on security risks and resulting policies surrounding BYOD, printing, third-party software, remote workers, legacy equipment, vendor management, social engineering, outdated-training and security policies, and public or poorly protected WiFi. Of course not!