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4 smart technologies modernizing sourcing strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives. Successful strategic sourcing often results in process optimization, cost management, customer satisfaction, risk management , increased sustainability and other benefits.

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Streamlining supply chain management: Strategies for the future

IBM Big Data Hub

In today’s complex global business environment, effective supply chain management (SCM) is crucial for maintaining a competitive advantage. Here’s how companies are using different strategies to address supply chain management and meet their business goals.

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How to build a successful procurement strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

A procurement strategy allows an organization to navigate an increasingly complex global supply chain, adapt swiftly to market fluctuations, and achieve cost optimization, operational efficiency and growth. A procurement strategy is not merely a series of steps for acquiring goods and services. What is a procurement strategy?

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What Is Model Risk Management and How is it Supported by Enterprise MLOps?

Domino Data Lab

Model Risk Management is about reducing bad consequences of decisions caused by trusting incorrect or misused model outputs. Systematically enabling model development and production deployment at scale entails use of an Enterprise MLOps platform, which addresses the full lifecycle including Model Risk Management.

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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

One meaning: initiatives that, as outlined above, have potential benefit but a high probability of failure. The other: structural risks — situations that might become real and would cause serious damage to the IT organization and its business collaborators if they do. In risk management terms it “prevents” (aka avoids) them.

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Want to tackle technical debt? Sell it as business risk

CIO Business Intelligence

That includes maintenance and upgrades deferred in favor of other projects or priorities, which can result in high future costs when those actions can no longer by avoided, often when a solution reaches end-of-life. Here’s where CIOs can rethink their approach to the long-term benefit of their organizations.

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20 issues shaping generative AI strategies today

CIO Business Intelligence

They note, too, that CIOs — being top technologists within their organizations — will be running point on those concerns as companies establish their gen AI strategies. Here’s a rundown of the top 20 issues shaping gen AI strategies today. Douglas Merrill, a partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.,