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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help.

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO

Yet the leading tech execs who make up CIO’s 2023 CIO Hall of Fame share many of the same attributes, attitudes, and ambitions. For example, most say they love both technology and problem-solving — a combination that often got them interested in the IT profession in the first place. Second, be intentional.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. Review the code being built. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Fast-forward a year and things have changed significantly. What follows is that conversation, edited for length and clarity.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. The real goal here is to sap the company of its productivity slowly, while maintaining a façade of plausibility and normalcy.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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6 signs it’s time to restructure your IT organization

CIO

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 A complete rebuild can be disruptive, time-consuming, and risky. The same can be said for IT operations itself.