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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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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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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. Make IT consolidation a priority and focus on how you can move to centralize work management.

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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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A 5-point checklist before you select and implement an AI agent platform

CIO Business Intelligence

If you can gain access to the leadership team, thats even better, and they can give strategic advice on how to best utilize their platform and take advantage of various programs such as AWS partnerships and their own affiliate programs.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

While we do have people that are regionally focused, the remainder of my roughly 1,400 direct team members are working on a global scope, for global programs. A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists.

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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

Consultants recognize that program leadership is not naïve to the nature of these executive-level relationships and are likely to flex this relationship leverage during commercial negotiations with the program-level team. Every consultant’s primary goal at the beginning of a program is to avoid the downstream RFP process.

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