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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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6 key challenges of complex cloud environments — and how to manage them

CIO Business Intelligence

A strong governance plan that includes best practices like tagging, workload management, RACI [responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed] matrix , rightsizing, cost management, security monitoring, etc., “This change in paradigm makes it very complex to navigate, and the only tool that we have is governance,” Vazquez says. “A

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. Organizations that enhance customer experience can boost sales by upwards of 7% and profitability between 1% and 2% , according to management consulting firm McKinsey.

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Score the Best Data Protection Solution for Your Organization

CDW Research Hub

Sirius’ Data Protection and Information Management (DPIM) team offer a two-part, 90-minute, vendor-agnostic Data Protection Scorecard Workshop at no cost to your organization. Sirius’ DPIM consultants will compare product features from industry-leading vendors to provide you with a detailed understanding of the available products.

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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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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

He brought on my firm, Enablement Consulting, to assess the situation and then work with Hubbard and his team to implement a persistent funding operating model at Rest. We made use of the organisational balanced scorecard and the associated metrics tracked in our quarterly business performance reporting.”

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8 Reasons Why Digital Transformations Fail (11 CIOs Weigh In)

Alation

Not surprisingly, consultant and virtual CTO/CIO Anthony McMahon poses the eternal question: “What’s the problem we’re trying to solve?”. This issue is why balanced scorecards have a forward component called “learn and grow.” but by how much. If you cannot measure the improvement, maybe don’t do it.”