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What is your data strategy for an AI future?

CIO

As enterprises become more data-driven, the old computing adage garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) has never been truer. The application of AI to many business processes will only accelerate the need to ensure the veracity and timeliness of the data used, whether generated internally or sourced externally.

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Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

CIO

Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. Just this past year another strategy must-have arrived to upend nearly every organization.

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The data flywheel: A better way to think about your data strategy

CIO

This article was co-authored by Duke Dyksterhouse , an Associate at Metis Strategy. Data & Analytics is delivering on its promise. Some are our clients—and more of them are asking our help with their data strategy. Often their ask is a thinly veiled admission of overwhelm. We discourage that thinking.

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Examining Cargill’s push to nurture growth through digital and data strategies

CIO

Having joined its executive team 18 months ago, CDIO Jennifer Hartsock oversees its global technology portfolio, and digital and data strategies, so she has to keep track of a lot of moving parts, both large and small, to help achieve the company’s big corporate strategy about being ‘better together.’ “It

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5 hot IT leadership trends — and 4 going cold

CIO

CIOs and others who manage technology teams are advised to see beyond the churn of constant upskilling, and consider what people excel at: creativity and critical thinking, business strategy, and building strong relationships that increase employee satisfaction while boosting the organization’s performance.

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What you need to know to accelerate your cloud and data strategy

CIO

Kirkland will describe key points on how cloud is enabling business value, including its sustainability initiatives, at CIO’s Future of Cloud & Data Summit , taking place virtually on April 12. The day-long conference will drill into key areas of balancing data security and innovation, emerging technologies, and leading major initiatives.

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4 ways to ensure CEO support for your digital strategy

CIO

Following are ways CIOs can help overcome disconnect in the C-suite on the evolving nature of their role in an effort to better enable support for their digital strategies. The dialogue with the board and with human resources is fruitful, and the managers are receptive, which greatly facilitates the digital strategy.”

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