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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

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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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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

These digital trailblazers , as I call them, are vital for digital transformation success, as they can be delegated leadership responsibilities such as the planning, execution, and change management of your digital initiatives. Agile PMOs take on these responsibilities and reduce the frictions that slow teams down.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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The demand for project managers has grown, with salaries for this role increasing by 15.6% Key skills for the role include resource allocation, risk and change management, quality assurance, communication, and leadership and team building. percent since 2021, according to Dice.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

Generative AI is also poised to dramatically speed up the whole process, says Rajib Gupta, senior director advisor in Gartner’s IT sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says. Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, IT Strategy, Software Development

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

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AI and change management Change management has long been instrumental to the success of AI projects. But, until this year, this was a relatively manageable problem since the AI projects had limited scope. This is the largest change management project in history,” says Greenstein.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Cloud computing changes staffing requirements to varying degrees depending on the level and type of adoption. 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.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The tech organization not only had to master unfamiliar fundamentals like continuous build, unit testing, cloud infrastructure and requirements expressed as Stories, but improvise to fill in the gaps the fundamentals of the time didn't cover, things like vendor management and large program management.