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Dr. Pankaj Setia on the challenges that will redefine CIOs’ careers

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He feels “in these present contexts, CIOs must reflect on their role deeply because, going forward, they may have to provide vision, guidance, strategies, foresight, and entrepreneurial energy to the enterprise.” Inadequate budgets, silos, and the fear of taking risks are the biggest roadblocks for going digital.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

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A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. And if the world’s temperatures rise by or above 1.5

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

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And while their staffs are more distributed than ever, these leaders are committed to making positive changes in workplace culture, including diversifying their workforce, and creating a post-pandemic work dynamic that enables their colleagues to connect with one another across distances to do their best work.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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For instance, the IRCTC online booking portal came into India well before tech giants like Amazon and was responsible for many of the mainframes that started the planning and scheduling of trains. India’s Vande Bharat trains are powered by WABTEC’s technology. We’re using generative AI use cases to train the drivers to fix problems.

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5 steps to drive and foster innovation in IT

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Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. There are some technologies that are more complex in nature and will require some degree of training. At the same time, defining your team culture and core values can have a major impact on both recruitment and retention.

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Giant Eagle CIO Kirk Ball’s recipe for digital transformation success

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Ball embodies the key leadership attributes that separate top CIOs from the rest, differentiators I’ve dubbed the 7 Cs, because these leaders maintain a laser-like focus on customer, culture, cultivating talent, courage, change, communication, and collaboration. A digital transformation also involves fundamental cultural change.

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Is Maintaining a Dirty Word for Leaders

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The other position took a broader approach and included items like healthcare, technology, job training, scientific research, and so on in their definition of infrastructure. 04:01 And I mean, culturally. And we don’t put a lot of focus, energy, or value into keeping things going healthy, and whole.