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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

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2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual.

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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. We had to drop some critical projects to all of a sudden deal with AI as it came to the forefront very quickly.” It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says.

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13 IT resolutions for 2024

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Emphasizing agility and flexibility is key in this dynamic environment,” he says. “To Such teams can be assembled based on specific projects, offering greater speed, flexibility, and agility,” he says. Achieve aggressive AI goals That’s not to suggest CIOs are slowing down their AI work. Claffey Jr.,

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

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And if you’re presenting, it’s best to study older board packages and consult with colleagues about how the directors discuss, debate, and finalize key decisions. A more recent review reports that only 51% of Fortune 100 companies and 9% of Fortune 200 through 500 organizations have a director with relevant cybersecurity experience.

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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. Data should be both insightful and actionable.

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8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

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Foster adaptability and flexibility Adaptable work environments and agile methodologies form the bedrock of a thriving IT culture, says Charman Hayes, executive vice president of people and capability for the technology group at Mastercard. Caldas has no doubt that technology is a key differentiator. “We

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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Other respondents said they aren’t using any generative AI models, are building their own, or are using an open-source alternative. Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. And the AI writing assistant category grew by 177%.