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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

However, this approach comes with its own sets of challenges such as compliance issues, misaligned workplace culture, and privacy concerns.” World Insurance’s Corrigan advises asking what skillsets, certifications, and personality types they look for when hiring. Seek cultural affinity and ethical alignment. “The

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What it takes to land a CIO gig in 2024

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To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

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Users without a technical background will typically consider an app from the user interface inwards, she says: “That’s just the mentality that most people approach computing with.” The cost of keeping up Should CIOs not yet all-in on the trend budget their software development tool spend to keep pace with IDC’s growth forecasts?

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Perspectives on how cloud computing & app development trends will take shape in 2023

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As Kubernetes is becoming more mature, and the ecosystem around it as well is stabilizing, I believe that the challenges we are experiencing around knowledge gaps, and technical difficulties are going to get smaller over the next few years. This huge step in company culture requires brave managers adopting agile principles.

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6 signs it’s time to restructure your IT organization

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And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. Yet, as any IT leader knows, when technical infrastructure fails to meet enterprise needs, hampering productivity and innovation, it’s often time to rebuild from scratch. Everyone will need time to adjust,” she advises. “Be

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Meet the 50 CISOs to Watch in 2024

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Recognizing the increasing challenges yet often underappreciated role of these professionals, we launched the 50 CISOs to Watch initiative last year to celebrate the CISOs demonstrating outstanding technical and leadership qualities. Heather is a technical visionary, expertly bridging business requirements with innovative tech solutions.

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Unleashing Creativity through Constraints

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The budget won’t allow this to be great. Even reaching out to someone who knows very little about the topic who can ask the simple questions of “why” or “why not” can allow you to see the obvious when you were stuck on the technical. Budget: Many teams kick the dirt knowing that the solution they want would never get budget approval.