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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

However, this approach comes with its own sets of challenges such as compliance issues, misaligned workplace culture, and privacy concerns.” Seek cultural affinity and ethical alignment. Double down on vendor management. As technology evolves rapidly, ethical alignment also becomes essential. Invest in win-wins.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO

For Italo, this IT-business dialog is based on a flexible IT infrastructure that includes numerous automation and AI components, and provides the necessary groundwork for business continuity. IT was divided into three parts: core banking, IT infrastructure, and data management, analytics, and AI.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode. Luckily, there are ways to slash the timelines on those projects.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

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. And that is the rub.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

We live in a world where we can instantly make use of infrastructure via cloud providers. Albeit via cloud providers where you can autoscale your infrastructure, or via Software-as-a-Service providers who offer you functionality out of the box. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager. We are embedded in teams and we handle training, vendor management, capacity planning, cluster updates, tooling, and so on. This also includes platform-level work around shared infrastructure, tools, and vendors that support SREs’ field of concerns.