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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO

To help close this digital maturity gap and drive digital transformation as a core competency, CIOs and their leadership colleagues must establish and enlist digital transformation leaders across the enterprise. After all, evolving the organization’s culture, processes, and technology practices is something the CIO can’t do alone.

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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.

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How CIOs reinterpret their role through AI

CIO

IT aligned for digital transformation Banca Etica is also adopting a new culture that interprets IT as a partner to the business, and not as an IT manager. The third is the ongoing cultural shift revolutionizing not only how IT is viewed but the roles within the CIO’s team.

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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Managing enterprise risk tolerance. Human resource leadership.

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

CIO

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” CIO, IT Leadership, Outsourcing

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO

Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work.

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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. We are involved in all sorts of things across the organization, across all sorts of spheres.