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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. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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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. 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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Shame-free down rounds, checkout flow tune-up, SaaS tsunami

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Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. If you’re trying to recalibrate online sales, this TC+ guest post contains formulas for calculating lost lifetime value (LTV) due to churn on a monthly and annual basis. Dominic-Madori Davis: Diligence? Well, why not? Are we doing it?

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO

AI also plays a significant role in the modernization or adaptation of workloads for cloud environments and code refactoring in connection with cloud migrations. Old legacy applications and proprietary software silos are still seen as major obstacles. The study at least partially refutes such fears.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO

Actual end users were coming from quality and safety, philanthropy, human resources saying, ‘We want to synthesize seven different job descriptions into one,’ with clear use cases. But we’re not sanctioning it or encouraging it yet across the board as a way to code faster. Some of these I hadn’t thought about.”

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO

Given the extended timeline and massive amount of resources dedicated to that project, the only reason it survived to completion was the absolute necessity to change all date formats so they wouldn’t clock out systems at the end of the last century. The vendor’s software release cycles get longer.

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