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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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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

It wont happen overnight, of course, and companies will need to be careful that these agentic systems dont go off the rails. Multi-agent systems Sure, AI agents are interesting. But things are going to get really interesting when agents start talking to each other, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant.

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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. Of course, employee retention efforts can help here, as can knowing the most common reasons top talent leaves. Vendor management best practices can also help in the event of outside dependencies changing. Like a sixth sense.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

The certification covers business frameworks, IT frameworks, software, database management, information systems, corporate IT strategy, corporate governance, risk, finance, and management of technology personnel. GAQM offers an e-course that takes 30 to 35 hours on average to complete that you can take prior to taking the exam.

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies. Of course, some startups will also shutdown. What’s next?

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Spooky, Scary Tales of Vendor Management

SecureWorld News

Five little vendors access your data. The first one said, "For this company, vendor management doesn't seem to matta." The fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control." In honor of Halloween, it seems appropriate to address one of the scariest issues facing organizations today: vendor or supplier management.