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Becoming a CTO

Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

They are a director of engineering at a midsize startup and just got their first headhunter inquiry for a CTO role. I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. I’ve been a CTO for five and a half years.

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Why CIOs back API governance to avoid tech sprawl

CIO

Karl Mattson, field CISO at Noname Security, an API security solution, says APIs are the foundation of nearly every CIO’s strategic plans to deliver business value. Good governance is the telemetry on that investment, from which operational and tactical plans can be adjusted and focused to achieve strategic objectives,” he says.

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2024 Glue Xperience Recap for Kaseya Site

Kaseya

Introducing IT Glue Copilot Kaseya CTO and GM of IT Glue, Nadir Merchant, introduced IT Glue Copilot during the keynote. This advanced feature leverages AI technologies such as natural language processing, generative AI, machine learning and traditional intelligence algorithms to revolutionize IT documentation.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO

In fact, CIOs listed numerous roadblocks to IT strategic success in the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. Downing developed strategies to deal with this challenge so that it does not impede progress. 1 challenge listed. It slowed the pace of our ability to advance on our objectives,” he adds.

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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. To tackle these issues, for the past five years, the new trend in executive hiring has been the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) role.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

IT leaders have long relied on third parties for talent, but what’s different is that CIOs are more likely these days to seek partners for highly strategic or niche skills, not just commoditized capabilities as in the past. IT Skills, IT Strategy, Outsourcing

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning. Waiting is a losing strategy.”

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