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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

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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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

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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IT leaders’ AI talent needs hinge on reskilling

CIO

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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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

Cloud software engineer Cloud software engineers are tasked with developing and maintaining software applications that run on cloud platforms, ensuring they are built to be scalable, reliable, and agile. These pros are experts in the cloud and stay on top of the latest innovations in cloud technology to better advise business leaders.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

In searching for key talent to staff security teams, Lee has drawn on professional writers, project managers, and others who don’t have the formal technical qualifications and CV experience one would expect for a cyber security role. As senior people retire, we’ve taken a hit,” she says.

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Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

CIO

And when performed strategically in succession as Mahon has done at Werner, such quick wins can lead to much larger business transformation over time — with less big-bang disruption and change management thanks to measurable proof of enhancement along the way.

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Walking the Walk, and Not Just Talking the Talk with SAP S/4HANA

Capgemini

We really had to do some change management on ourselves as working with SAP S/4HANA is very different than the ECC and R/3 days. But you can’t just stop at certification, you have to change the way you work, and so we have been on an Agile and DevOps journey. I would consider SAP’s Activate method a hybrid methodology.