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JANUARY 2, 2024

Technical debt is what accrues when IT teams borrow against future performance to meet demands and deadlines today. Reframing technical debt There is no magic potion that can eliminate all technical debt, but technical debt can be attacked via budgeting if technical debt is not just perceived as upgrading IT infrastructure.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Load a smart read onto your phone or e-reader or crack the spine of a new book and delve into some thought leadership on everything from leading an amazing team to building a productive company culture to reaching for a better mindset for guiding your organization forward. They returned home to found the SEAL leadership training team. “It

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In late 2023, an edX survey of 800 C-suite executives showed that more than half thought executive leadership or C-suite roles will be partly or completely replaced by AI. Sharon Mandell, CIO at Juniper Networks, echoes Johar that AI can free up time for her by reducing the emails she has to read, or meetings she has to attend.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Knowing this was coming, I responded, “On average, most organizations spend around 3-6% of their IT budget on security.” Security spend as a percentage of IT budget is meaningless without understanding your overall IT investment.” It’s easy to say that 3-6% of an IT budget should be allocated to security. But I wasn’t finished.

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Employees need proof IT is meeting their needs Brian Shield, SVP and CTO of the Boston Red Sox, is very proactive asking his stakeholders, “Are we meeting your needs? Cheryl Smith, former CIO at Keyspan, McKesson, and West Jet, generated a zero-based budget report for every senior non-IT leader in the enterprise.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short — and most revolve around leadership. IT leaders must work with business leadership to help establish a clear understanding of digital transformation goals and a practical roadmap for achieving them.

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CIO

JULY 10, 2023

Worse, because senior leadership doesn’t fully understand the issues in play or the threats to the business, they may not prioritize investments appropriately. At three different companies in his career, he has set up systems where requests beyond the scope of the job were handled outside his IT budget. “I

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Lacework

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recognizing the increasing challenges yet often underappreciated role of these professionals, we launched the 50 CISOs to Watch initiative last year to celebrate the CISOs demonstrating outstanding technical and leadership qualities. Meet the 50 CISOs to Watch in 2024. Now, we’re excited to continue the tradition for a second year.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Throughout these vibrant conversations, CIOs also discussed managing teams and leadership. Consistently across all conversations the senior technology leaders agreed that Canadian CIOs are actively participating with the CEO and leadership teams leading technology, digital transformation, and innovation as the core of business growth.

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CIO

AUGUST 27, 2024

Consumed by the need to have someone to blame, influencers from around the world proclaimed it was a hoax perpetrated by IT to inflate technology budgets and its perceived importance. Rock, meet hard place. Then, meet DevOps. Happy to have a scapegoat, the world ignorantly sneered and then moved on to the next pseudo-culprit.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool. This can create knowledge gaps where leadership thinks a system is performing fine. Getting by on Small Budgets. Enterprise, HPE, IT Leadership Re-tooling Underway.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Budget for surprises. What is project management? Develop relevant KPIs.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. percent since 2021, according to Dice.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Such advice, however, speaks only to what CIOs need to successfully manage the IT department — that is, to deliver operational excellence and meet key performance requirements. Here, veteran CIOs and executive leadership experts highlight the essential traits required to be a standout IT leader today.

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CIO

AUGUST 23, 2022

Being efficient means producing high-quality, sustainable, and expected outcomes on time and on budget, says Christopher Kowalsky, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Leadership efficiency is a career-long commitment. They trust their leadership team.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2022

What steps can a CIO take in order to avoid spending their budget buying technology that will just end up going to waste? Then they need to look at their current spending plans and try to determine if they are meeting the company’s needs. As the CIO, you are in charge of determining where the department’s budget gets spent.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Assuming the candidate passes muster on those counts, the individual can expect very positive short- and long-term impacts on their careers by taking up this emerging IT leadership role, he says. While Coto works closely with other leaders to align AI initiatives with the overall budget, he does have a certain degree of budgetary autonomy. “I

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Many see AI as a driving force for a sector that has often lagged behind on technology, but which now has an opportunity to take a leadership position. It can bring vast pools of data together from Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, calendars and emails, chats and meeting notes, along with Power BI reports.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

Exam fee: $575 for ISACA members and $760 for non-members Expiration: Three years Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Security is a main concern for the enterprise and once you start heading into management and leadership positions, it’ll become one of your top priorities.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Deep, unreasonable budget cuts. The IT budget has just been slashed by colleagues who have no idea how their decision will damage essential services. In the event a negative budget change is proposed, the CIO should be asking tough questions and paying close attention to the replies. Careers, CIO, IT Leadership

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Both AI and security modernization require integrated systems and substantial budgets, yet these factors are inhibited by technical debt. By migrating to the cloud and changing its technology operations, Capital One was able to scale to meet demand, improve agility, accelerate innovation, and reduce costs associated with legacy systems.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

Schneider Electric’s IT organization achieved that goal by reducing the layers for technology- and budget-related approvals, and by trusting managers and staff to make as many of those decisions as possible within the company’s “delegation of authority pathways” framework. Those are the areas where we have leadership eyes.”

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CIO

JULY 10, 2024

CIOs are under pressure to integrate generative AI into business operations and products, often driven by the demand to meet business and board expectations swiftly. But many IT departments might not thoroughly consider the prerequisites for successful GenAI deployment, and moving quickly can lead to costly errors and implementation failures.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

Being nimble is a huge benefit in a CTO’s daily life, where back-to-back meetings can range from discussing budgets, to having 1:1s, to solving technical challenges. If organizations can meet neurodiverse people where they are, the combination can be incredibly effective.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. Yet many IT departments are struggling to reshape themselves to better meet the mandates of today. Even 20 people in a meeting takes too long.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

What keeps IT leaders up at night covers a broad range of issues including improving overall IT performance, data security, process risk and compliance, and meeting needs to improve business agility. Having regular meetings and chats with team members helps ensure everyone’s on the same page, and supports those who might be falling behind.

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. How do you overcome this dynamic, and how do you help your people with this?

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CIO

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Organizations perceive IT as struggling to meet these demands, particularly in deploying new technologies like AI, which have raised expectations among business leaders,” he says. Many organizations appear to already be shifting IT budgets to R&D, he says, even though he believes organizations still need healthy IT teams. “If

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The manufacturing industry is experiencing its “fourth industrial revolution,” with manufacturers focused on leveraging IT to stay competitive and meet the demand for digital services that can enhance their physical wares. It’s a technical role that also requires a level of soft skills such as leadership, communication, and analytical skills.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s aggressively deploying those to Azure data centers, which won’t require any changes by customers, and expects these investments to come closer to meeting demand by mid 2025. But if there’s some plan for how that’s going to go, I think in general, we’ve been able to meet all of those [requests].”

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CIO

APRIL 13, 2023

Also, adopting zero-trust architecture and secure access service edge technologies can help boost productivity by freeing users from manually deploying virtual private networks to access resources or interrupt meetings when their VPN fails. That’s because, they say, companies may define security spend differently or have different needs.

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MARCH 31, 2022

He has a diverse set of experiences in leadership roles including presales integration, service and solutions, and presales systems integration and design; he also holds numerous manufacturer and warehouse management certifications.

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