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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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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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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO

Your vendor shows signs of pulling back on investments You’re working on a set of proprietary reports for a vendor-based system, and you’re utilizing vendor tools to build these reports. As the project proceeds, you notice that the vendor begins to slow down delivery on its fixes and enhancements.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO

The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Limitations of CCMO tools There’s a lot of room for improvement in cloud cost management.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

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The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. And according to the latest 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report , you don’t need to reach for an executive career in IT to earn a six-figure salary. as of January. increase from 2021. Careers, IT Jobs, Salaries

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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Vendor consolidation a hot-button topic for CIOs as they try to manage the tensions between innovation and efficiency

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According to The Human-Centered Insights To Fuel IT’s Vision 2022 report, conducted by Reach3 for Lenovo, 83 per cent of CIOs are still seeking digital transformation, but 76 per cent also acknowledge that they’re grappling with the challenge of finding the right balance between business innovation and operational excellence.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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