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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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Your CEO has little idea who IT is or what IT does

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

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Key considerations for cloud strategy and modernization The what: The executive leadership team of business and IT together need to evaluate business needs and their current business challenges, global footprint and current technology landscape and define the companys Northstar, (aka, the what, the vision).

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Mitigating cyber risks: the essential role of collaboration for Middle East organizations

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The panelists identified three high-risk functions that organizations in the Middle East must prioritize—credential management, vendor management, and patch management. These areas, often neglected or poorly managed, can expose businesses to serious vulnerabilities.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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The demand for project managers has grown, with salaries for this role increasing by 15.6% Key skills for the role include resource allocation, risk and change management, quality assurance, communication, and leadership and team building. percent since 2021, according to Dice.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

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It allows us to provide services in areas that arent covered, and check boxes on the security, privacy, and compliance side. Plus, some regions have data residency and other restrictive requirements. So we augment with open source, he says. Right now, the company is using the French-built Mistral open source model.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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It allows for security, compliance, PII checks, and other guardrails to be built around it. Some compliance concerns are taken care of as well since GPT4DFCI runs on Azure, a HIPAA-compliant cloud environment, says Renato Umeton, director of AI operations and data science services at Dana-Farber.