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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

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Effective IT strategy requires not just technical expertise but a focus on adaptability and customer-centricity, enabling organizations to stay ahead in a fast-changing marketplace. This shared vision should extend from top leadership to front-line employees, ensuring every stakeholder understands and supports the strategic direction.

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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

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“The best way to ensure alignment is to make IT leadership an active part of organizational leadership.” It’s important for CIOs to advise on, acknowledge, understand, and deliver on the business plan to create an effective IT roadmap that aligns to the organization’s business strategy.

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How Women in Tech are rising to the new challenges

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Working on long-term milestones while balancing everyday obstacles, embracing the learning curve while becoming a sought-after business leader, and changing long-held perceptions, Indias women CIOs are writing a new chapter in multifaceted leadership. Build a strong network of mentors, sponsors, and allies who advocate for you.

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Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

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“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. But that becomes quite impersonal and doesn’t align with having leadership EQ.” But their role isn’t going away.

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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2024

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Strike a balance between innovation and operational excellence In an era of creative disruption, Orla Daly, CIO at business and technical skills training firm Skillsoft, believes that IT leaders in 2024 should concentrate on achieving balance among their myriad initiatives, favoring innovation and “keep the lights on” work in turn.

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#803 TECH TITANS: Leveling Up Your Communication with Bill Tingle, Certified Leadership Coach

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Today, we’re bringing you an episode of Tech Titans with Bill Tingle, CEO at Tingle Leadership. We discuss the ways in which Bill advises leaders to step up their communication skills and how to more actively listen to your team. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

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“I wanted to be on the side that could influence a better decision rather than on the side lobbying for a better decision,” Loura says of his drive toward leadership. To achieve that, Loura recognized the need to give up time performing the technical work he loved to do more of that decision-making. Second, be intentional.