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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Here are 10 changes needed to enable a wholesale paradigm shift in strategic planning and execution methods that will significantly improve your results: 1.

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Resource Management in Tech Companies: A Key Driver for Success

Gorilla Logic

This is why, in order to deliver and survive the ever-changing environment of the tech industry, it is necessary to have an understanding of the importance and impact of having efficient resource management. What is resource management?

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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

CIO

Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts.

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A Tale of Two CIO Priorities: It’s the Best Security for IT Infrastructure, It’s the Worst for Cyber Criminals

CIO

In past years, the first conversations with enterprise storage buyers were about cost efficiency and performance. This is a radical change that is redefining strategic planning and purchasing of enterprise storage solutions. They are accelerating decisions as they map out and fulfill their strategic plans.

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Don’t do IT yourself: The trick to ensuring business alignment

CIO

Reflecting on this after the meeting, he sits down with the CEO and asks how she would evaluate IT’s performance to date. Then each department must take this one-year plan and decide what resources are needed to accomplish their objectives — a process that should include conversations with IT to help determine what is needed.

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How technology is reshaping the college student experience

CIO

Top priorities for accessibility and inclusion in higher education include: Expanded mental health support for students as depression, anxiety, and loneliness grow ( 83% of students say mental health negatively impacts academic performance). Inclusion for those who identify as non-traditional students (i.e.,

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO

Additionally, the PMO ensures project teams have the resources required for success; offers training and guidance for PMO staffers as well as workers throughout the organization; and communicates between project teams and business leaders. An enterprise PMO can operate as a controlling, supportive, or directive PMO.