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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

There’s absolutely an overarching trend we’re witnessing of organizations entering into more strategic partnership agreements to ensure access to critical talent and expertise,” says Greg Sarafin, global alliance and ecosystem leader at EY. D ue diligence pays off.

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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. Restructuring can create uncertainty and stress in an organization, and it shouldn’t be used lightly or regularly, Sinclair explains.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

Over the past few years, CIOs have focused on enabling hybrid work, driving efficiencies through automation, modernizing applications, enabling machine learning predictions, and maturing the data-driven organization. There’s often ambition to address all or most problems, but that can leave the system user behind.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems.

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Savvy CIOs step up to support business hypergrowth

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Acceleration plans also included fast-tracking the evaluation and implementation of new technologies, such as AI to enhance robotic process automation (RPA) and optical character recognition (OCR), as well as delivering new cloud-based data storage and analytics systems. “We That is rewarding and keeps our teams excited and engaged.”

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7 ways to spot hidden IT talent within your ranks

CIO

Every IT organization has hidden experts. Schwarz says she prizes agile team members who understand business concepts and outcomes, and who have the ability to tell a story that translates technical thoughts into business outcomes. Haus advises IT leaders to encourage team members to learn, absorb, and collaborate. “We

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SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

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As such, customers should prepare their organizations to undertake an extensive, holistic evaluation of RISE from a technical, operational, financial, and commercial perspective. For many organizations, the percentage of their IaaS workloads are primarily related to SAP.