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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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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. The next step for agents, she says, is pulling together communications from all the different channels, including email, chat, texts, social media, and more. But Ive found them immensely useful in trimming down busy work.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, if vendor agents provide integration with X for social media posts, do they have planned support for LinkedIn as well? Is this something youll likely need in your own deployments? Support for third-party tools and integrations will also be critical. Do they have ready examples as they roll out new features?

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Is the sales tech party over?

Forrester IT

And while socially, the episodic nature of Covid may […]. Early in 2021 the media was filled with talk that we would see a return to the roaring 20’s, those golden years of economic prosperity before the first great Wall St. crash in 1929.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

But with social media, there are lots of places to get real-time consumer insights into the types of products they want or dont want. 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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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.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO Business Intelligence

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. Umeton himself says he has a bot that monitors news outlets and social media feeds, and compiles a weekly digest for his review. The advent of ChatGPT was just the beginning,” he says.