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Driving Digital Transformation
The one transformation goal CIO must prioritize in 2020
Defining goals without acknowledging the need to transform often leads organizations to make iterative improvements to existing businesses without challenging themselves to consider disruptive opportunities and threats.
Building IT Relationships
Building elasticity in outsourced managed services
Plan for the future by building both cost and service management elasticity into your outsourced managed service agreements up front.
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What Gen Z workers look for in an IT employer
Gen Z is just beginning to enter the workforce en masse. Here’s what tomorrow’s IT pros and leaders are looking for in an employer today.
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Keys to a successful flexible IT staffing strategy
With specialized skills in short supply, CIOs are increasingly turning to contingent workers to supplement in-house talent. Here’s how to ensure your workforce mix is on target and productive.
Movers and Shakers
How to develop IT leaders into future CIOs
Steve Faas, CIO of Aleris, reflects on his strong record of turning up-and-comers into CIOs.
The Adaptive CIO
Top-down strategy is dead – Long live the team of teams!
How should CIOs construct their organizations to better enable the agility demanded by today’s pace of strategy and initiative change?
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Top 10 technical skills that will get you hired in 2020
Landing the perfect IT job is never easy, but certain, in-demand skills can smooth the way. Here are the top IT skills employers will be looking for in 2020.
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IT apprenticeships: Best practices for onboarding overlooked talent
IT leaders share their experiences and tips for launching apprenticeship programs that successfully bridge the IT skills gap.The Value of Business Analysis
The business case for certifications
Business analysis as a profession continues to mature in the world today and with that comes organizations and certifications indicating experience and knowledge. These certifications take time and money to achieve, and there are many different options, so it’s important to consider the business case of certification.
Tech People Architecture
10 tech certifications that pay the highest and are still growing in value
While pay for tech certifications has been declining overall, these certs are bucking the trend more than most.
Analysis
10 future trends and how CIOs can keep ahead in 2020
After years of digital disruption and uncertainty, the future enterprise is finally coming into focus. Here's a look at what's ahead for IT organizations.
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10 best tech MBA programs for 2019
Looking to launch a career in IT leadership? These top-ranked tech-focused MBA programs can help vault you to the top.
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At SUSE, mentoring helps shape the future for women in tech
Melissa Di Donato’s first priority as CEO of SUSE was to implement a mentoring program to uplift women in their tech careers.
Transforming Engineering
The ever-changing role of a startup CTO
Tech startups are only as successful as their tech. With fast-paced growth, a CTO must build upon and constantly iterate with the changing times to succeed.
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12 awards that recognize women in tech
These 12 awards recognize hard-working women who promote diversity and inclusion and who inspire other women to grow their careers in tech.
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Your personal advisory board: The secret to a great career
A personal advisory board can advise, counsel and champion you through all stages of your IT career. Here’s how to create your own.
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6 tips for an effective IT internship program
A well-run internship program can provide a talent pipeline, help build your brand, and even jumpstart business innovation. Here’s how to ensure your interns are engaged, productive, and singing praise.
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7 ways IT can help cut friction from the customer experience
Top-notch CX is a digital business imperative. Here’s how to ensure your organization’s customer and client experience is hassle-free.
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CDO resumes: 4 tips for landing a chief data officer role
Chief data officers are on the rise as businesses embrace data-driven strategies. But you’ll want to follow these four tips to write the perfect CDO resume to get the job.
The Next Generation of Health IT
How analytics help justify the role of the CIO
CIOs require unified intelligence for data-driven insights leading to actionable organizational decision making.
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Reskilling helps Stanley future-proof its factories
Committed to forging 10 million ‘makers’ by 2030, Stanley Black & Decker is training up factory workers to work with robotics, AI, IoT and AR. Here’s how the power tools manufacturer is doing it.
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Top career tips for aspiring CIOs
CIOs share hard-earned lessons and time-honored advice to those seeking top technology leadership roles.
Movers and Shakers
A ‘first 100-days’ plan for the new CIO
SAIC CIO Nathan Rogers offers an approach for managing your new CIO job.
CDO at the Center
Who’s in charge of upskilling tech talent? You are. Here are 5 ways to get started
Can’t find talent fast enough? Train them! It’s no secret that hiring external talent is no longer sufficient to fulfill today’s tech employment demands. That’s why many companies are investing more resources in upskilling.Feature
The chief data officer: The CIO’s newest ally
As organizations shift to data-driven strategies, the CDO role is rising. But to succeed as an entity, the CIO and CDO must work in concert — with clear delineations in responsibilities.The Tech Mindset
5 ways cybersecurity awareness trainings can strengthen your organization
As efforts to implement comprehensive security engineering frameworks and policies grow across various enterprises, it makes sense to implement a hands-on training program focused on educating your employees with basic cybersecurity best practices – so they don’t fall for phishing scams.
Navigating the Digital Universe
Why corporate boards put their digital transformation at risk
Despite increasing cybercrime and dependency on digital revenues, many CEOs operate in the dark. A stunning 63 percent of CISOs don’t regularly report to their board, research by Ponemon Institute finds.
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Sponsorship vs. mentorship: Which is best for your career?
While seemingly similar, mentorship and sponsorship offer distinct differences as workplace support and provide unique benefits for your career.
Cracking the Leadership Code
5 principles for a fulfilling career from the ‘Father of Digital Mobile Communication’
Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt, who helped develop groundbreaking wireless technology for Sony and Ericsson, says leaders cannot go it alone.
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Fall 2019: The future of IT leadership
What do the coming years hold for the CIO role? Read on for a glimpse into the future.
Talent is King
How to avoid a knee-jerk hiring strategy
If need is driving all of your recruiting decisions, you may be compromising.
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7 signs you’re being exploited at work — and what to do about it
All too often the reward for good work is more work. Here’s how to know when enough is enough and what you can do to better your situation.
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LinkedIn Talent Solutions: 10 tips for hiring your perfect match
Looking for the perfect candidate? LinkedIn Talent Solutions offers powerful tools and services for leveraging real-time data and machine learning to find your match.
Inclusion, Inc.
Ending white dominance in tech starts with white women
When white women fail to see the access and privilege afforded them, the “women in tech” narrative will continue to be characterized by the white woman’s perspective, thus erasing the experience of black women and other women of color.
The CIO Whisperers
Solving IT's looming leadership crisis
IT leaders are failing the next generation, but a one-on-one approach — at scale — can make the difference.
Movers and Shakers
Vanguard's investment in agile pays employee engagement dividends
John Marcante, CIO of Vanguard, discusses how agile development and product management are driving a culture of engagement and business outcomes at the large global investment advisory firm.
Dangerous Thinking
Chief Trust Officers: Why, who and when
As markets continue to shift globally, organizations seek to differentiate on trust and transparency in addition to experience, engagement, price and quality. Data privacy has entered the C-suite as a catalyst for this level of differentiation and is creating new roles to take on the increased scope and strategic responsibilities.
The Adaptive CIO
Ensuring CIOs are in the know
CIOs need to achieve many things these days, but one of the most important is integrating themselves into the business. Easier said than done? Not necessarily…
Movers and Shakers
Restructuring IT for growth
How Terex CIO Andrew Campbell turned the manufacturer's IT generalists into specialists who are true partners with the business.
Driving Digital Transformation
5 primary activities for CIOs transforming to a data-driven organization
No one said transforming to a data-driven organization was going to be easy…
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IT pros go back to school to advance their careers
To keep pace with change, IT pros are enrolling in courses and programs aimed at expanding their horizons. Here are five areas that are paying off.
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Salesforce certification guide: Your path to a lucrative career
Salesforce certification is a great way to get ahead by proving your skills on one of the hottest CRM platforms today. Our guide to the most valuable Salesforce certifications will help you kick-start your Salesforce career.
The Adaptive CIO
How CIOs stoke the fires for the business engine of innovation
CIOs tell me that they want to do more than align to the business agenda. They want a role in business innovation. But how do they achieve it?
The CIO Whisperers
Creating the IT culture you need
Re-engineering your culture requires developing new core skills. Learn how three CIOs are tackling IT transformation from a human perspective.
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The turnaround: Inheriting digital transformation
With digital transformations either stalled or splintered, newly hired CIOs must pick up where their predecessors left off and remake IT with a singular focus on supporting the business vision.
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IT Resume Makeover: Restructuring for the C-suite
In this resume makeover, Andrew Ysasi helps a candidate update his already-strong resume with better formatting and a more visually appealing design.
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6 tips for recruiting college IT talent
Don’t fear the FAANG: A targeted recruiting approach focused on establishing relationships and showing candidates their future can help any IT organization succeed on campus.
The Tech Mindset
5 practical ways your organization can benefit from DevSecOps
Behind the buzzword, is there a real need of and value for organizations in exploring DevSecOps? It’s important to understand why DevSecOps matters in this day and age of security breaches and what the pragmatic benefits are for your organization.
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The rise of the chief experience officer
As companies bear down on customer experience as a key differentiator, they are carving out a new CxO role. Are CIOs a natural fit for the new post? The answer is, it depends.
The CIO Whisperers
The new core competencies IT must master
The technical skills that earned you a seat at the table won't earn you a voice at the table. A new set of skills is essential for high-level IT success.
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