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CDO resumes: 5 tips for landing a chief data officer role

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As companies start to adapt data-first strategies, the role of chief data officer is becoming increasingly important, especially as businesses seek to capitalize on data to gain a competitive advantage. According to the survey, 80% of the top KPIs that CDOs report focusing on are business oriented.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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In fact, CIOs listed numerous roadblocks to IT strategic success in the 2024 State of the CIO Study from Foundry, publisher of CIO.com. 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. 1 challenge listed.

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Hybrid Workplaces: Fad or Future?

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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. it’s clear from the survey results that hybrid work is here to stay. Corporate real estate investments are changing.

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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. For example, strategy building skills enable IT teams to unlock new business opportunities.

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

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2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning. Waiting is a losing strategy.”

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What business executives don’t understand about IT

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The title of my presentation has been “Digital Transformation Strategy,” subtitled “How to effectively exploit the IT resource to gain sustained competitive advantage.” To often CEOs have positioned IT to report to some other executive, oftentimes the CFO, and according to CIO.com’s State of the CIO survey , 18% still do.

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Maximizing Cloud Cost Efficiency: 5 Essential Strategies for Cloud FinOps

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In this blog, we will highlight five specific strategies for Cloud FinOps, focusing on autoscaling, budgets, reservations, monitoring for under-utilized resources, and architecting systems for cost efficiency. Reservations or savings plans typically involve some sort of long-term commitment.

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