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Coaching your IT team for change: 9 tips

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There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Getting your team to accept, and even embrace, change is an essential leadership skill. Some changes — buyouts or leadership shifts, for example — don’t allow for much notice. Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees.

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6 signs an IT manager is struggling — and how to help

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Pressured to do more with less, faster, in flatter organizational structures, IT middle managers serve as a company catchall, with too much time spent on lower-value tasks such as administrative work and planning rather than high-value work such as actually managing and executing plans, according to a recent survey from McKinsey.

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8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

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Embrace new challenges and prioritize engaging pilots Justin Rodenbostel, executive vice president at technology modernization firm SPR, believes that emphasizing learning, training, and professional growth is crucial. For a qualitative view, employee surveys that measure engagement or information from front-line managers can be used.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. 1 challenge listed.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

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A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. As with most business challenges, data is instrumental.

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10 things keeping IT leaders up at night

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“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

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Organizations that scored in the top quartile for EA maturity in a recent Bizzdesign survey were three times more likely to report having organizational agility, which has been crucial during the past few years with the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprise architects often go on to work as a CTO, software engineering or development director, or CIO.