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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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Course Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy

Xebia

architecture #enterprisearchitecture #masterofscience Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy Enterprise Architecture as a topic is evolving and gaining in interest at various organizations in the Netherlands and abroad. To get here, we first need to zoom in into what is strategy. The strategy of you.

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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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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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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

CIO

Business alignment is often heralded as a key tenet of successful IT strategies. 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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Essential skills and traits of chief AI officers

CIO

As such, they should have a proven track record of leading successful innovation programs and a clear understanding of how AI can transform the organization with ethics and governance in mind. For companies with a central strategy function, the CAIO will be a key partner in driving success.” Artificial Intelligence, IT Leadership

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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan?

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