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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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“It’s a win-win when you can get the long-term vision and growth of a company tied to individual career and professional development,” says Mark Yunger, vice president, head of IT at Servier Pharmaceuticals. From an individual’s perspective, it keeps careers interesting and helps people grow with the organization.

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How CIOs overcome the challenges of leading IT in smaller cities

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IT leaders working in non-metro cities encounter several unique strategic and operational challenges that impact IT operations, business outcomes, and their leadership careers. If we want to beat competition in the pharmaceutical industry, we must make use of next generation of technologies such as cloud, big data, and analytics.

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Chief AI officer: What it takes to land the C-suite’s hottest new job

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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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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

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And speaking about flying in an era of no-frills budget airlines and finding new digital means to win over customers and remain competitive, he adds that the flight is not a commodity experience. “We Test, measure, and learn comes with responsibility, so it has a lot to do with a healthy failure culture and leadership.”

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How generative AI impacts your digital transformation priorities

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As many CIOs prepare their 2024 budgets and digital transformation priorities, developing a strategy that seeks opportunities to evolve business models, targets near-term operational impacts, prioritizes where employees should experiment, and defines AI-related risk-mitigating plans is imperative.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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The late Richard Sykes, CIO of pharmaceuticals giant ICI in the 1990s and later a columnist for CIO magazine, famously scripted starkly different scenarios of the future of ICI for board members early in his IT role. CIO, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy Why tell stories?

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Meet the 50 CISOs to Watch in 2024

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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. Dr. Anand Singh blends exceptional cybersecurity leadership with academic brilliance.

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