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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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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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Provider or partner? IT leaders rethink vendor relationships for value

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s someone who can make a long-term difference,” says Ed Bouryng, president and founder of Meta, a technology and change management consultancy. Byproduct of IT’s evolution Gayatri Shenai, senior partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., says this provider-partnership dynamic is a byproduct of IT’s evolution.

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Strategic Marketing Analytics: CMO Dashboards That Rock!

Occam's Razor

An extraordinary amount of time, effort, $$$ are spent on building dashboards/scorecards for CMOs… Yet, the end result, nearly always, is a useless data puke. To build an effective big picture scorecard for the CMO, that is not data pukey , there are three crucial challenges that have to be solved: Represent the full span of the CMO’s world.

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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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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 African tech leaders can boost their diversity strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

In the last two years, there has been a significant increase in the number of organisations making a commitment to improving DEI in technology roles, notes Tumi Sineke, the founder of Tirisanong, a Cape Town-based coaching and consulting brand that helps leaders to create more inclusive teams. But times are changing.

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