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

CIO

“An MBA exposes IT leaders to critical business competencies by widening their perspective, developing leadership skills, and establishing management skills,” says Pranu Bhargava, executive vice president of technology at AllCampus, a company that partners with universities to offer online degree and certificate programs.

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Welcome to Strategic Planning 2.0

N2Growth Blog

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. Strategic Planning 2.0

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Why CIOs back API governance to avoid tech sprawl

CIO

Most companies have transitioned to become more software-centric, and with this transformation, application programming interfaces (APIs) have proliferated. 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.

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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

CIO

Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts.

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Educator Prep Program Evaluation & Reporting

PowerSchool

Our consultants support states in this endeavor by working to develop and implement statistically sound evaluation frameworks for educator preparation programs. To start, PowerSchool conducts internal discovery sessions with the state and its stakeholders to create a shared definition of program quality. Program Report Cards.

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#ClouderaLife Employee Spotlight: Kimberly Lewis, Director of Human Resources Programs

Cloudera

Kim is the director of human resources (HR) programs at Cloudera. She manages everything that happens on a programmatic basis in HR that has a strategy and a plan. “I I work closely with the chief human resources officer on strategic planning as well as HR leadership,” she said.

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Skilled IT pay defined by volatility, security, and AI

CIO

Around two-thirds of the top 25 premiums were for security-related certifications, with GIAC Security Leadership (GSLC); GIAC Strategic Planning, Policy, and Leadership (GSTRT); Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK); Offensive Security Exploitation Expert (OSEE); and Offensive Security Defense Analyst (OSDA) attracting the biggest bonuses.

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