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

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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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Stone recently spoke at a recent summit on Leading in Disruptive Times with Julia King, contributing editor at CIO, about key leadership methods to fuel success, and how being “client zero” has enabled Booz Allen to inspire and retain talent while continuously learning and embracing technology to build trusted relationships.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Grady’s leadership team at healthcare diagnostics and software maker IDEXX had already been talking about introducing a more robust change management discipline within the enterprise IT function, and seeing what was possible when everyone was on board with transformational change kicked those efforts into higher gear.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Despite leadership teams calling to be data-driven, studies find that most are not. An omnichannel retailer, for example, would want a team organized around order fulfilment, an area where retailers are constantly challenged to do better to meet customer expectations and best their competitors at doing so.

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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

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

JANUARY 3, 2024

Additionally, access to real-time data reduces the need for so many meetings, saving everyone time. This generally requires frequent reporting from various groups to communicate progress and ensure projects are within budget. Data Management, IT Leadership Different teams can pull their view of progress on demand.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Venables recommends that modernization conversations should be held in boardrooms, executive leadership meetings, and business unit–specific strategy sessions. Planning is critical, Folk says.

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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

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

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

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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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

But when it came to other personnel decisions, in which Plattner had a say, the company didn’t always have good luck with successive leadership and increases in maintenance fees, which battered customer relationship for years, so SAP had to revise its pricing policy. Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Management, IT Leadership, SAP

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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

MARCH 28, 2023

With our results showing that only a quarter of respondents are planning to put budget behind their network infrastructure this year, there is clearly more to be done in demonstrating the network’s value as a business-driving asset in its own right. IT Leadership Want to learn more? Check out our infographic.

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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

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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Unless an organization has the budget to exponentially grow staff to meet these demands, IT operations (ITOps) processes and tools need to change. This minimizes or eliminates the need for large and costly meetings involving various IT teams or staffers. IT Leadership Click here to learn more.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., Still, in many ways, Black people are the only one on their team, their division, their company, or at their level of leadership. For him, fitting in and advancing had always come easy.

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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

MAY 17, 2024

Project managers are the front-line officers of the modern white-collar workforce who plan and organize projects, and then shepherd them to completion, making sure they don’t take too long or run over budget. It’s the ability to make fast, flexible changes based on current or future internal and external situations.

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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

MAY 6, 2024

Previously, technology teams were effectively only tracking IT metrics, reporting on whether they delivered on time and on budget. Whether the factory delivered 5 or 5,000 widgets a day may be academic if none of the widgets produced meet the required specifications or quality standards. Digital Transformation, IT Leadership

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

CTO: Chief collaborators in tech ] CTO skills As a member of the C-suite, the CTO needs to possess natural leadership skills, including the ability to delegate tasks and inspire staff in their work. “As After several years, they typically enter a management or leadership role, where they get the necessary leadership skills.”

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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 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

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

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

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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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. The challenge is finding ways to achieve these goals in an era of constricted budgets.

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