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7 ways an MBA will advance your IT career — and 5 ways it won’t

CIO

Ben King, head of mobile app development firm Aviato Consulting, is convinced that it can provide a major career boost. Does it make sense for an IT leader to seek an MBA? He credits his decision to earn an MBA with transforming his career. While an individual contributor at Google, King spent several years working toward an MBA.

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Hybrid Workplaces: Fad or Future?

CIO

As the new year gets underway, organizations are looking beyond the challenges, volatility and reactive mode of the past few years and strategically planning their future to compete and thrive. To remain at the forefront, Aruba works on thought leadership and research to help our customers stay ahead. Hybrid work is not new.

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Why CIOs back API governance to avoid tech sprawl

CIO

Karl Mattson, field CISO at Noname Security, an API security solution, says APIs are the foundation of nearly every CIO’s strategic plans to deliver business value. Good governance is the telemetry on that investment, from which operational and tactical plans can be adjusted and focused to achieve strategic objectives,” he says.

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2015 Leadership Predictions:

The Empowered Buisness

Do you know how current trends will change the face of leadership in your company? Is your company ready to meet the new leadership challenges in the coming years? Are you aware of how leadership is evolving to respond to those trends? Every leader knows the importance of being strategic.

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

million customers – about 25% of Canada’s internet capacity – halting point-of-sale debit payments on the Interac network, preventing Rogers mobile phone users from accessing 9-1-1 services, disrupting transit services dependent on online payment, and even wreaking havoc on traffic signals in Toronto dependent on cellular GSM for timing changes. .

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Break the Model! How Challenging Status Quo Makes Lasting Impact

Mills Scofield

They are the epitome of how to create an amazing strategic plan that achieves their mission and vision in innovative ways will (hopefully) make them no longer needed. When COVID hit, SHFB deployed mobile pantries , serving up to 30,000 households a month.

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Invoking IT to help revitalize Indigenous languages at risk of extinction

CIO

Undertaken in conjunction with Miami University’s IT department, ILDA has been awarded a 2023 CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. There’s already an iOS and Android dictionary app, giving users easy access to ILDA on mobile devices, but he notes there’s always room for advancement.

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