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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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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels.

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Welcome to Strategic Planning 2.0

N2Growth Blog

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections.

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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

CIO

Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts. Business awareness is a vital aspect of IT leadership today.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO

The phases, processes and associated knowledge areas provide an organized approach for project managers and their teams to work through projects, according to the following outline: Initiating phase: Integration management: Develop project charter. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines.

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7 ways an MBA will advance your IT career — and 5 ways it won’t

CIO

MBA programs can also help leaders hone their communication and negotiation skills while also improving their understanding of organizational behavior, strategic planning, and risk management through exposure to experienced peers and varied coursework,” Bhargava explains. Careers, IT Leadership, IT Skills

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Generative AI’s potential as a force multiplier in defense

CIO

Organizations need novel storage capabilities to handle the massive, real-time, unstructured data required to build, train and use generative AI. Without it, organizations can face final-mile issues that hinder generative AI capabilities. In addition, generative AI can assist defense in strategic planning.