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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

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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Optimize Digital Budgets, Service Providers, And Skills — Or Lose The Digital Race

Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Forrester surveyed digital business strategy decision-makers globally on their priorities, investments, and organizational structures.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Product management is crucial for businesses looking to drive innovation and leverage technology as a differentiator, shared Roman Dumiak, executive-in-residence at the DePaul University Innovation Development Lab, at a recent Coffee With Digital Trailblazers event I hosted on the topic.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Dan Roberts: What can you tell us about your mission for Digital Technology Solutions, and the strategy thats laying the foundation for transformation at Kimberly-Clark? Part of our DTS strategy has involved realignment, with about 200 members of my central team re-focusing to be more aligned with the business functions.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

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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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

They review transparency and budgeting, and engage with the finance organization monthly to review trends. The Enterprise FinOps staff handles contract negotiations, some compute purchases, and purchase agreements, while the business units focus on consumption management and optimization. CarMaxs strategy has also evolved.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Learn to read the signs of potential business stakeholder disinterest and work to transform stakeholders into project partners to ensure at-risk projects can be righted or a mutual decision to shelve the project can be arrived at without disrupting other IT priorities or draining more time, budget, and resources.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals. Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy. Careers, IT Jobs, Salaries

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. That helps me plan.”

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

Mike Rawson, CIO of citizenM, is also emphasizing green IT as part of the global hotel chain’s IT strategy. By integrating sustainability into our core business strategy, we’re not only reducing our environmental impact but also creating long-term value for our stakeholders.”

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Vendor consolidation a hot-button topic for CIOs as they try to manage the tensions between innovation and efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Sourcing and Partnerships – revisiting and improving the sourcing strategy is critical for minimising the total cost of ownership while maximising the value of the investment. One of the key steps in achieving all of the above will be vendor consolidation, and there will be a strong trend towards this in the year ahead.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Double down on vendor management. IT Skills, IT Strategy, Outsourcing

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

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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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

tight federal, state and local IT budgets. Jackson, NJVC Vice President and General Manager, Cloud. Services is a leading voice in federal and commercial cloud strategy. without sacrificing the budget it would take to support those solutions. brokerage with (vendor management and integration included) marks the.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Chandegara has over 20 years’ experience in managing IT and communication systems. He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. February 2022. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO.

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CIO as Chief Improvement Officer: How do you Learn from IT Failures

Future of CIO

AUGUST 5, 2015

Knowing how to "really do" risk management, quality assurance, vendor management, etc, not just fill out templates that were originally designed to provide directions and to create thought and brainstorm. This can mean that the project overruns on time and goes over budget. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.

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Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Leveraging sustainable architecture principles and practices, organizations can link enterprise business and technology strategies with ESG principles that have the potential to unlock new opportunities for innovation, efficiency and competitive advantage while aligning to a strong mission statement regarding improving societal impacts on the earth.

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