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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, BI, and analytics at Richmond, Va.-based

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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.

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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. Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times.

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Canadian CIOs discuss driving digital transformation at a rapid pace

CIO

This was an added stress on planning his data and cloud strategy. Another CIO mentioned that planning and moving data to the cloud required deep collaboration with vendors to build an assessment for licensing, workloads and migration costs. Working with vendors There was a keen interest in working collaboratively with vendors.

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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

CIO

Business alignment is often heralded as a key tenet of successful IT strategies. 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.

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4 Friendly Strategies for Federal Agencies

Invid Group

4 Friendly Strategies for Federal Agencies BY: INVID Navigating the intricate landscape of federal contracting while concurrently meeting diversity goals presents a significant challenge for many agencies. The constant demands of budget management, project execution, and citizen service provision can often overshadow diversity initiatives.

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning. Waiting is a losing strategy.”

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