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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

“This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. And that is the rub.

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7 ways to ruin you IT leadership reputation

CIO

Failing to innovate IT leaders should burnish their reputations by encouraging innovation in the form of new initiatives, prototypes, hackathons, and cross-departmental partnerships, says Jeff Mains, CEO of professional services firm Champion Leadership Group.

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Black CIOs on the path to IT leadership

CIO

You can have sponsors and mentors, but make sure you know what you want so you know what to say yes to and what to say no to,” Allen advised. And I think all of us need to make sure and socialize within our community that if you don’t fit all the requirements, that’s okay. Everything is a team and group effort,” she said.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Beneficial design alternatives aren't even considered because the necessary development groups aren't talking to each other. I still remember one sharp technical leader, who was just made the architect of a large new project that consisted of six teams in different cities all over the world. “I

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

It’s through a combination of technical artifacts, organizational practices and policies, and pure gumption that they manage to maintain themselves through time. In other words, the goal is to understand an organization from the inside so well that the group can engage in constructive criticism. This is nothing new.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO

We haven’t changed our forecast in three quarters,” he says, noting that the US gross domestic product (GDP) is, technically, already in recession territory and has been for the past six months. That’s certainly the case in the corporate technology group at Illinois Tool Works (ITW), a $14.5 Budgeting, IT Leadership, IT Strategy.

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The Power of AI Assistants and Advanced Threat Detection

Palo Alto Networks

We recently interviewed Mike Spisak, technical managing director with the Proactive Services Creation Team at Unit 42. Continuing his analysis, Spisak turns his attention to phishing and social engineering attacks. "AI-driven AI-driven email security solutions are poised to excel in identifying phishing emails," he asserts.