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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

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For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

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To help close this digital maturity gap and drive digital transformation as a core competency, CIOs and their leadership colleagues must establish and enlist digital transformation leaders across the enterprise. Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says. You also sacrifice the opportunity to standardize on optimization, operations, security management and so on,” he adds.

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

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

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Turning a vendor into a partner, he says, takes an understanding of business outcomes and anticipating change in the sector that need a pivot or reaction, and then help you understand that. He was very resourceful and organized in his approach to infrastructure management. I actually don’t have a formal STEM education,” he says.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. 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. How will we balance security, agility, and usability?

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

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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.” CIO, IT Leadership, Outsourcing