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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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Becoming a CTO

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO

These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning. We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

IT leaders have long relied on third parties for talent, but what’s different is that CIOs are more likely these days to seek partners for highly strategic or niche skills, not just commoditized capabilities as in the past. When working with advancing technologies such as AI, screening potential partners can take more effort. “It

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Chief Digital Officer: Role, Responsibilities, Skills, and When Organizations Need One

Altexsoft

C-Suite hierarchy: CDO vs CIO vs CTO vs CMO. We will use the closest positions, namely CIO, CTO, and CMO. The CDO position can be seen as an extension of the CIO, CTO, and CMO titles: It covers “hidden” activities in all areas as graphically highlighted in a viz. CTO vs CDO. Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

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10 Vitals To Get Successful Results In Software Development

Xicom

Whether you are a business owner or a CTO, you are solely responsible for the successful execution of the software development project. Completing the projects successfully within timeline and budget is quite a challenging endeavour. Even if everything went well, there is always room for improvement.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.