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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. At the same time, addressing technical debt and legacy debt can be an expensive and risky endeavor.

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7 sins of digital transformation

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By focusing on technology, CIOs can deliver transitionary results, such as improving infrastructure agility by migrating to the cloud or improving user experiences by upgrading legacy systems to SaaS. IT loves solutioning and implementing, especially when some underlying technical limitations are rooted in legacy systems and technical debt.

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What it takes to land a CIO gig in 2024

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And nearly every company seems poised to adopt artificial intelligence in some fashion. Agility: Given the need to stay ahead of market events, behaviors, and disruptive trends, today’s CIO job market favors those who demonstrate flexibility and foresight, and can establish agile IT cultures. Ask questions.

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IT leaders’ AI talent needs hinge on reskilling

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Companies should be proactive about acquiring AI talent, using both training programs with their current employees and hiring programs to attract outside experts, he advises. That mix of technical and soft skills is another factor shaping the shift toward reskilling for AI. Reskilling employees is a crucial step, he adds. “In

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

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Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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The CIO’s call to action on gen AI

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Palmer is one of the world’s top AI experts and a longtime industry veteran who is educating and advising companies on how to approach and harness this new technology. Anna Ransley, a CD&IO known for her work at Godiva and Heineken, among others, has been advising boards and C-suites about generative AI strategy, risks, and opportunities.

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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023

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Critical IT skills, especially in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, have long been in short supply, and the current labor shortage is intensifying the need for such professionals, Kirkwood notes. It’s also essential to find the right partners who share an agile mindset and commitment to sustainable change.”