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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers. Less senior BAs became Product Managers, while those Project Managers who did not become part of the Product organization were either staffed outside of IT or coached out of the accompany.