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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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Other top challenges included budgetary constraints, compliance with laws and regulations, and responding to inquiries from other leaders within the organization. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. 1 challenge listed. 1 challenge listed.

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7 sins of digital transformation

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By focusing on technology, CIOs can deliver transitionary results, such as improving infrastructure agility by migrating to the cloud or improving user experiences by upgrading legacy systems to SaaS. IT loves solutioning and implementing, especially when some underlying technical limitations are rooted in legacy systems and technical debt.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

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A fractional CIO is typically an experienced IT leader who is external to the enterprise yet acts as an accountable leader and extension of the executive team, says Dave Hartman, president of IT management consulting firm Hartman Executive Advisors. “A Rather than being a senior executive, the ex-CIO is now simply a third-party advisor. “It

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

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After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Cloud systems administrator Cloud systems administrators are charged with overseeing the general maintenance and management of cloud infrastructure.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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However, this approach comes with its own sets of challenges such as compliance issues, misaligned workplace culture, and privacy concerns.” World Insurance’s Corrigan advises asking what skillsets, certifications, and personality types they look for when hiring. Invest in win-wins.

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What it takes to land a CIO gig in 2024

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To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.

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FINRA CIO Steve Randich pushes the public cloud forward

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, an operational and IT service arm that works for the SEC, is not only a cloud customer but also a technical partner to Amazon whose expertise has enabled the advancement of the cloud infrastructure at AWS. But FINRA’s CIO remains skeptical about so-called multicloud infrastructure.