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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

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Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. Just this past year another strategy must-have arrived to upend nearly every organization.

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Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022?

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A new year is quickly approaching, which brings new resolutions — and new budgets. Provide a recommendation in this quick survey and we’ll share the results with everybody. Jonathan Martinez of JM Strategy advised running parallel campaigns on TikTok, Facebook and Google. Lindsay Goldman , strategic advisor, MO Pros.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

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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% Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This should secure our business strategy for the next five years and longer.”

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Why IT surveys can’t be trusted for strategic decisions

CIO

One reason is that surveys dominate research into IT practices, and their results generally follow the well-worn template: X percent of Y does or is planning to do Z. Surveys, that is, only reduce our uncertainty about how many people or organizations are doing something we care about (or are supposed to). Why do I say that, you ask?

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3 strategies for elevating brand authority in 2021

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2 strategies for creating top-of-funnel marketing content. If you’re one of these marketers, I have some strategies you can use to improve your brand’s authority this year. It can’t happen overnight, but you can start implementing these strategies now to see results over time. Strategy #1: Get media coverage.

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