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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. According to The State of the CIO Survey,24% of CIOs view “reinventing infrastructure/applications to meet new requirements” as a challenge holding IT back. And they’re thinking about how to ‘hollow the core.’ 1 challenge listed.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cash management basics, proptech investor survey, visa interview prep

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Founders who don’t implement proper treasury management practices during a downturn are as foolhardy as I was that day — how far can your company go on fumes? Strategic warfare: How to hire and retain top analytics talent. How can you tell if someone can deliver when you don’t have experience doing the job yourself?

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6 signs an IT manager is struggling — and how to help

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Pressured to do more with less, faster, in flatter organizational structures, IT middle managers serve as a company catchall, with too much time spent on lower-value tasks such as administrative work and planning rather than high-value work such as actually managing and executing plans, according to a recent survey from McKinsey.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

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Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Here’s how IT leaders, analysts, and other experts view the skills critical to digital success and how they factor into ongoing digital progress.

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Landing Your First CIO Role? Learn how Next CIO Winners Gathered to Support Their C-suite Tech Leadership Journey.

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The Next CIO cohort sat with Natalie Whittlesey and James Lawson from InX to discuss how to transition into a first time C-suite role. The State of the CIO 2024 survey published by CIO, states that 85% of CIOs are becoming a changemaker, increasingly leading business and technology initiatives.

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

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CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list. Rather than engaging in bidding wars to attract talent, differentiate your company from competitors,” advises duFour.

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7 sins of digital transformation

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Focusing on the technology, not business outcomes According to a recent Gartner survey , the most critical digital transformation outcome is to excel at customer and employee experiences. IT loves solutioning and implementing, especially when some underlying technical limitations are rooted in legacy systems and technical debt.