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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

These digital trailblazers , as I call them, are vital for digital transformation success, as they can be delegated leadership responsibilities such as the planning, execution, and change management of your digital initiatives. Information security specialists guide agile teams on shift-left security practices.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

He continues: “The CIOs we work with aren’t interested in modernizations that aren’t accretive to the organization’s mission, stakeholders, economics, or culture. Instead, experts advise using agile principles for quick wins and incremental advancements whenever possible. They target modernizations efforts at these unmet needs.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. efficiency, agility, cost savings) as well as any performance characteristics that will help determine whether it is a good candidate for cloud.

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

CIO

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” There are an increasing range of technologies and providers.

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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. Data skills are also vital, says NCC Group’s Fox.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation. No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Great for our agility, but it also has consequences. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. The latter architect needs to be stronger in vendor management and the corresponding negotiation. No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution.