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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

CIO

Research has shown that companies with strong digital acuity outperform the field, so it’s a strategic and business imperative, Seals adds. More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. The payoff can be significant. “We

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

“Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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10 things keeping IT leaders up at night

CIO

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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The Rise Of The Solopreneur 

Crunchbase News

This new type of entrepreneurship is a game-changer in today’s innovation-driven yet financially tight market, opening doors for early ventures to flourish. It’s a time-saver and budget-friendly way to enhance business operations, keeping the focus on core activities. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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Craig St. Jean, From Young Programmer to Chief Technology Architect

Xebia

Outside of technical firsts, I was also very lucky to have a mentor who ensured I was given great opportunities and showed me that I may have thought too highly of myself and would always have much to learn from others. Instead of coding projects, I coded automations for budget forecasting and such.