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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO

“I wanted to be on the side that could influence a better decision rather than on the side lobbying for a better decision,” Loura says of his drive toward leadership. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Second, be intentional. Curiosity tops his list. “I

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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Most companies think of failure as something they want to avoid, but really fast-changing organizations understand failures as a step towards success.” Here they are.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO

Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Ensuring all IT spend is directly tied to business demand acts as an automatic cost optimizer.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

Rising prices have imposed tough challenges on IT budgets, operations and staffing, especially for global organizations with operations in countries where inflation has been running high, such as Poland (10%), India (8%) or Turkey (50%). They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO

EA helps organizations structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results, to stay agile and resilient in the face of rapid change, and to stay on top of industry trends and disruptions using architecture principles and practices, a process also known as enterprise architectural planning (EAP).

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GOTO x Apiumhub Partnership

Apiumhub

Build a Serverless Web App for a Theme Park Building and Deploying Cloud Native Applications with gRPC Kotlin & Kubernetes Elastic, Agile and Adaptive Leadership for Technical Leaders Advanced Deployment Pipeline Techniques Learning Kotlin/JS by Building Web Apps in React & Redux And many other hands-on workshops, check them here.