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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

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. Lately, a talent shortage means CIOs are pushing for more automation.

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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. Benefits of vendor management. Left unmanaged, vendor partnerships can quickly fall behind.

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

CIO

It is now a critical issue that demands the attention of board members and every department within an organization. The panelists identified three high-risk functions that organizations in the Middle East must prioritize—credential management, vendor management, and patch management.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO

So, as an organization, we started talking to our chief legal counsel and senior clinical leaders and some operational leaders. The first step was to issue a statement across the organization about using tools expressly approved for clinical work, or anything else, but not free tools. Can our staff use this?

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives.

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

CIO

Rising prices have imposed tough challenges on IT budgets, operations and staffing, especially for global organizations with operations in countries where inflation has been running high, such as Poland (10%), India (8%) or Turkey (50%). But 90% of the sales calls he gets are from vendors who say they can save him money on infrastructure.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Using common software, functionalities can be purchased and integrated with the click of a button and the availability of a credit card. Value-stream teams have been given more autonomy and possibilities to select, purchase and integrate hardware and software. Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives.