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  CIOs must revaluate use of outsourcing: Gartner

  CIOs must revaluate their use of outsourcing and move from the role of IT manager to broker if effective resourcing is to take place, a Gartner analyst has warned.

• IT industry may be damaged by vendor buyout trend

  IT managers have been warned to closely assess their vendor relationships as a wave of buy outs and acquisitions sweep the globe, leaving the market dominated by a few key players.

• Government must rethink IT management strategy: analyst

  A lack of flexibility towards IT management in the government sector may hinder the development of cloud computing and virtualisation.

• Government must rethink IT management strategy: analyst

  A lack of flexibility towards IT management in the government sector may hinder the development of cloud computing and virtualisation.

• Look to vendor management programs to reclaim the upper hand: Gartner

  IT organisations which feel like they are at the mercy of their vendors should consider implementing a systematic vendor management program to address imbalances in power in their relationships, according to Gartner. Speaking at the analyst firm’s Symposium in Sydney, analysts William Snyder said through implementing vendor management (VM), organisations had the potential to better manage information flow, thereby improving the strength of their negotiations.

• Customers can gain from being a vendor reference

  No IT vendor's news announcement is truly complete without a couple of glowing quotes from customers; nor is any vendor conference really a success unless the company has lined up a few satisfied CIOs to talk up their strategy and products.

Whitepapers about vendor management

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  Learning To Compete: IT’s Next Transformation

  CIOs must become competitive players in managing relationships between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerisation, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC explores this transformation as a leadership opportunity, as an opportunity to create new models for IT, and as a catalyst to fundamentally change the dynamic between IT and the business. Embedded videos feature CIOs from T-Mobile USA and Wharton School of Business and a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers.

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  EMC 15-Minute Guide to Smarter Backup Transform your future

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  Seven Steps to Effective Data Governance

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  Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise - How to Tackle Your Bad Information