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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

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But how do you prepare others on your team for this next career step? Because if you don’t do the upfront work to prepare your team to take the helm, you won’t have anyone to fill those seats when you want to move up — or step down. I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team.

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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

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We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. I strongly believe in situational leadership.

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The skills and traits of elite CTOs

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These executives can help lead their organizations toward increased efficiencies and improved performance through strategic implementation of the right products and services. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Part of ensuring that the data strategy will meet the goals of the enterprise includes having data stewardship, which ensures organized, accessible, high-quality data that’s consistently available to vested parties.

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Rebranding IT for the modernized IT mission

CIO

Despite that prescience, and the flexibility of information technology as a term, many today argue that calling the CIO’s organization “information technology” or “IT” has lived its course. What dataops, data governance, machine learning, and AI capabilities are IT developing as competitive differentiators?

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8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

CIO

Winning IT organizations aren’t built in a day. Long-term success is generally the result of leaders who make a committed effort to connect directly with their teams, rather than simply issuing memos, edicts, and other top-down commands. Projects that really excite our teams.”

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

CIO

According to ISACA, 60% of organizations are struggling to retain individuals, and 62% say their teams are operating at a talent deficit. But we also have to make sure these people work well with teams and have strong ethics. Cybersecurity exposes people to the potential to do good or bad.

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