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9 traits of great IT leaders

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IT leaders have gotten the message: To successfully perform their jobs, they need more than technical skills. Some expertise in marketing, operations, cybersecurity, and other functional areas is important, too. That has been the message coming from veteran CIOs, executive advisors, and management consultants in recent years.

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5 steps to drive and foster innovation in IT

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This is especially critical within physical operations – the industries that drive more than 40% of the global GDP – as organizations like ABF Freight and Liberty Energy look for ways to operate more efficiently, gain end-to-end visibility, and focus on a sustainability agenda. What kind of market penetration are we targeting among users?

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

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That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

There is a ton of competitive pressure to move fast, because those who can do things quicker, better, faster are the ones winning the market share,” says Ricardo Madan, senior vice president of TEKsystems Global Services. Still, he and other Gartner researchers say the technology could transform modernization work. “The

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO

Managing data and using data should be considered a portfolio of actions,” says Thomas. When a good framework is defined, the CIO should be able to hand off tasks to different teams with full confidence not only that they’ll be performed accurately, but the outcome will contribute to achieving the overall goal.”

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The Art of Leading Change: Strategies for Success in Organizations

Experience to Lead

Now more than ever, organizations are facing an overwhelming amount of change. Market declines, increased competition and industry culture shifts all play an enormous role in how an organization functions. As change is inevitable, many business leaders find themselves looking for ways to move with the times.

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Giant Eagle CIO Kirk Ball’s recipe for digital transformation success

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These examples primarily focus on external customer-facing mobile apps and websites, but digital transformation also includes developing mobile and web-based solutions for team members to improve their efficiency and eliminate friction as they perform their jobs. According to data from Statista, $1.3T