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Skills-first hiring has CIOs rethinking talent strategies

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Skills-first (or skilled-based) hiring is mostly self-explanatory: It is an approach to hiring that focuses on finding candidates with the skills needed by the organization. Some researchers and tech leaders are using the strategy. The strategy moves away, to varying degrees, from using job titles. Its use is on the upswing.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

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Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully.

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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

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Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. Just this past year another strategy must-have arrived to upend nearly every organization.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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C R Srinivasan, EVP of cloud and cybersecurity services and chief digital officer at Tata Communications, sees many enterprises “getting more nuanced” with their cloud use and strategies in an effort to balance performance, costs, and security. “As It may very well be that many organizations have highly predictable, stable volume.

Strategy 359
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How to Democratize Data Across Your Organization Using a Semantic Layer

Speaker: speakers from Verizon, Snowflake, Affinity Federal Credit Union, EverQuote, and AtScale

Each panelist will present and discuss actionable strategies for making data as consumable as possible by everyone in the organization and for increasing data velocity for faster insights using a semantic layer. In this webinar you will learn about: Making data accessible to everyone in your organization with their favorite tools.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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That’s not hyperbole: TEKsystems’ 2024 State of Digital Transformation report found that 53% of organizations classified as digital leaders are confident that their digital investments will meet expected ROIs. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.

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Marketing-Led Post-COVID-19 Growth Strategies

Marketers are uniquely positioned to provide creative solutions to aid their organization in times of change and chart a course for navigating success. In this eBook, we’ll discuss leading strategies to create a marketing-led growth strategy for 2021 and beyond, including: Positioning your organization for automation.

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Marketing-Led COVID-19 Growth Strategies: 2022 and Beyond

In this eBook, you’ll discover what it takes to develop and drive a successful marketing-led growth strategy. You’ll learn the best growth strategies to: Get your sales and marketing teams aligned. Prepare your organization for automation with AI. Define and agree on “qualified leads”. Level up your marketing automation.

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What We Learned From Our Own Data-Driven ABM Strategy

However, ABM practitioners have evolved the strategy from development to implementation. Instead of wading through a series of vague “how-to kick-start your ABM strategy!” ZoomInfo has created the following eBook to help other B2B organizations gain insights on how to launch their own data-driven ABM strategy.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. More specifically, updated data can help organizations outline key accounts for their campaigns.

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10 Keys to AI Success in 2021

Capitalizing on the incredible potential of AI means having a coherent AI strategy that you can operationalize within your existing processes. But it’s not always easy for organizations to do. AI storytelling in communicating value to your organization. Trusted AI and how vital it is to your AI projects.

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Democratizing AI for All: Transforming Your Operating Model to Support AI Adoption

Democratization puts AI into the hands of non-data scientists and makes artificial intelligence accessible to every area of an organization. But in order to reap the rewards that AI offers, it is essential that businesses first address how their organizations are set up, from their people to their processes. Identifying good use cases.

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Microservices: The Dark Side

Speaker: Prem Chandrasekaran

Now that he’s part of ThoughtWorks, he can share how this applies to a wide variety of organizations with different needs, size organizations and levels of maturity. How these strategies can be applied in different size engineering organizations. Adopting new strategies incrementally.