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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

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Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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Storytelling is as old as humanity itself and it’s core to the fundamentals of faith, politics, and marketing. I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. 1 challenge listed. 1 challenge listed.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups.

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

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To achieve that, Loura recognized the need to give up time performing the technical work he loved to do more of that decision-making. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” NTT i 3 ), a research and development center; and CIO and CTO of Magellan Health.

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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

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The biggest challenge is finding talented team members at the market rate,” says Patrick Isaac, CTO at Accuro Solutions, adding that the current environment demands more intensive recruiting efforts. The upside of recent tech layoffs is that there has been more cloud talent on the market this year. “We The net result?

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

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Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Everyone in their organization — from sales to marketing to HR to operations — needs access to data to make better decisions.”

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