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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

“Proactive and collaborative partnerships are built successfully if both sides avoid the trappings of a purely transactional relationship,” says Anja Allen, principal in the technology consulting practice at EY Consulting. “If This deepens and elevates your relationship into a strategic partnership and can lead to innovative solutions.”

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How to build a successful procurement strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

By assessing and proactively managing risks inherent in the supply chain , organizations can shield themselves from disruptions and strengthen the resilience of their operations. This enables an effective and adaptive approach to sourcing that creates value and minimizes risk.

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What is Integrated Business Planning (IBP)?

IBM Big Data Hub

The term ‘IBP’ was introduced by the management consulting firm Oliver Wight to describe an evolved version of the sales and operations planning (S&OP process) they originally developed in the early 1980s. Making up the IBP framework are six key pillars: 1.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Debra Chin, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and program manager/consultant with ROC Implementation & Management Group (ROCIMG), describes the PMO more succinctly, saying, “It’s a centralized point that helps manage projects.”

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Change at the Speed of Innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

Combining Agile and DevOps with elements such as cloud, testing, security, risk management and compliance creates a modernized technology delivery approach that can help an organization achieve greater speed, reduced risk, and enhanced quality and experience. Learn more about our Technology Consulting Services by visiting us here.

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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

Amazon Redshift features like streaming ingestion, Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration , and data sharing with AWS Data Exchange enable near-real-time processing for trade reporting, risk management, and trade optimization. Ruben consults with capital markets participants on modern data architecture and systematic investment processes.

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Businesses Across Various Industry Verticals Use Data Analytics

Smart Data Collective

As a result of the resolution of risks and the creation of hypotheses, data analysis assists businesses in generating sound business choices. This is one of the reasons why data analytics consultation is becoming more popular among businesses across a wide range of industrial verticals.