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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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Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

CIO Business Intelligence

Executives need to understand and hopefully have a respected relationship with the following IT dramatis personae : IT operations director, development director, CISO, project management office (PMO) director, enterprise architecture director, governance and compliance Director, vendor management director, and innovation director.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit.

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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO Business Intelligence

Everyone knew what was at stake and why the project took so long. Other IT projects aren’t like that. If projects start to lag, or if enthusiasm wanes, it’s time for CIOs and project managers to check in. Could it be that you’re working on a dying project? The cost of a failed project is significant.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

He expects the same to happen in all areas of software development, starting with user requirements research through project management and all the way to testing and quality assurance. It wont happen overnight, of course, and companies will need to be careful that these agentic systems dont go off the rails.

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