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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

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Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. According to The State of the CIO Survey,24% of CIOs view “reinventing infrastructure/applications to meet new requirements” as a challenge holding IT back. 1 challenge listed. 1 challenge listed. And they’re thinking about how to ‘hollow the core.’

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7 sins of digital transformation

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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. In addition, business stakeholders often demand fast results.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

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This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. And that is the rub.

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7 ways to spot hidden IT talent within your ranks

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Look for agility in seeking out new challenges Diane Schwarz, vice president and CIO at building services equipment manufacturer Johnson Controls, says she looks for leaders with an agile learner’s mindset. Agility is embedded in a person’s DNA and doesn’t change, Schwarz claims. That means you’re learning!”

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What it takes to land a CIO gig in 2024

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To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership. It’s a role that focuses on the deployment of automated applications, maintenance of IT and cloud infrastructure, and identifying the potential risks and benefits of new software and systems.

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