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

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Vendors will sometimes announce their AI is open source because it helps with marketing and recruitment, and lets customers feel theyre not locked in. In the rush to adopt AI, companies might take a vendors description of their AI as open source at face value.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

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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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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

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Many CIOs and other company leaders are now seeing sustainability as a key piece of their employee recruiting efforts, with many job seekers prioritizing green initiatives. “[Top Top talent] can get top dollar wherever they go, but they won’t choose an organization based on the dollar value,” he says.

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CIOs step up to fill plus-size leadership roles

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CIOs’ expanding remit Hill was recruited to MSC specifically for the newly created role, which merged the different business functions into a digital organization better equipped to operate and scale at the pace of modern business.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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

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You can recruit more senior people, where one person can replace three and make fewer mistakes, or downsize the teams, wait for the situation to change and rebuild later. And you have to partner with your vendors.” McKee sees two other ways to address the problem.