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

CIO

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

CIO

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

CIO

IBM, for example, decided in 2022 to get rid of its Watson Health unit , which integrated AI in healthcare, to focus on the cloud and its core AI technology. The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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Provider or partner? IT leaders rethink vendor relationships for value

CIO

“That vendor is looking after the long-term interests of the organization, and not just looking to get the next contract.” Anthony Moisant, CIO and chief security officer at Indeed, a job matching and hiring platform, brings that perspective to his vendor management practices. “In There’s a spectrum, Shenai says.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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#739 Cultivating Synergistic Environments & Teamwork with Liz Cunningham, Vice President of Digital Operations at AMN Healthcare

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Liz Cunningham, Vice President, Digital at AMN Healthcare. We discuss Liz’s strategy for keeping her team constantly engaged, the ways in which she studies parallel industries to innovate within her own, and how she and her team are using AI to bring the healthcare staffing field into the future.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. But the institute was able to focus its resources on other applications, such as research and operations. These are areas where AI can deliver high return on investment with comparatively lower risk, adds Umeton.