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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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How To Adjust Your Tech Budget To Survive Or Thrive In The Pandemic Recession

Forrester IT

The old playbook for how CIOs can manage tech budgets through tough times will not work for today’s pandemic. While CIOs and their business partners are under intense pressure to cut tech budgets, technology plays a vital role in business survival and success during this recession.

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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

Forrester IT

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

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Oversee change in the program management office With traditional project-based approaches, stakeholders specify requirements and priorities, and a project manager oversees fulfilling them on time, on budget, and at agreed-upon quality.

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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO Business Intelligence

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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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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