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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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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.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

By contrast, in some large financial services firms, the role of FinOps has broadened. Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments. Most FinOps principles have been applied to technology financials as a whole, he adds.

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Netflix Hack: Key Lessons In The Economics Of Ransomware And Managing 3rd Party Risk

Forrester IT

If you do an impact analysis, you see that it has a medium reputational risk, a low financial risk and no regulatory risk. Enterprise Risk Management. vendor management. With that kind of risk analysis, you don't pay a ransom. Read more Categories: Brand Risk. Governance Risk and Compliance. Ransomware. third party data.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Program managers in agile organizations yield timeline responsibilities to product managers collaborating with agile teams. Program managers can then have more time to focus on vendor management, financial planning, and executive-level communications. Prioritize user engagement, time to value, and retention.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The good news is all major cloud providers frameworks do the same thing: Operational excellence Security Cost optimization Reliability Performance efficiency Sustainability The framework helps in implementing the financial controls (FinOps) that we will discuss separately, management of workloads (BaseOps) and security controls (SecOps).

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Fortinet expands security lineup with sovereign SASE

Network World

A challenge for some enterprise adopters, however, is a lack of control, as some SASE technologies rely on a vendor managing data in the cloud. The network security vendor unveiled a sovereign SASE technology that it says will provide organizations with more control than a typical SASE deployment.

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