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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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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO

Its a step forward in terms of governance, trying to make sure AI is being used in a socially beneficial way. The next step for agents, she says, is pulling together communications from all the different channels, including email, chat, texts, social media, and more. But Ive found them immensely useful in trimming down busy work.

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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. Umeton himself says he has a bot that monitors news outlets and social media feeds, and compiles a weekly digest for his review. The advent of ChatGPT was just the beginning,” he says.

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Managing the many we’s of IT

CIO

the social (how do I want others to see me?), CIOs also need to know how others see them the social component of collective behavior. Whether we like it or not, we in IT, as perceived by our stakeholders, includes our vendors. We do not get a pass saying, Thats not our fault; that is vendor X, Y, or Z screwing up.

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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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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

CIO

On team building: My approach has been to lean on my network, to scout, develop and capture talent by creating my own social pipeline. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management It’s a committed collaboration partner with a stake in seeing us succeed, and not simply in making their quarterly quotas.

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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles

TechCrunch

Reports on social media show the company’s reluctance to handle consumer complaints. “China-based vendors managed to get quality devices, high specifications and the latest technology at affordable prices with huge marketing and channel spends,” Singh said.

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