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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

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It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

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A fractional CIO is typically an experienced IT leader who is external to the enterprise yet acts as an accountable leader and extension of the executive team, says Dave Hartman, president of IT management consulting firm Hartman Executive Advisors. “A What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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The CIO’s guide to smarter vendor negotiation: 10 tips

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Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” Deals done by business users alone may be technically unsound.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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For example, organizations may commit to containers that are too large, or reserve too much disk space. His team conducts annual campaigns to contain costs by cleaning up unused accounts, reducing space requirements, and releasing unused components, for example. “We Then there’s housekeeping.

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What CIOs are in for with the EU’s Data Act

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An important aspect is, for example, our ability to use patient data for research purposes after anonymizing them, in line with GDPR. Perugini advises companies to get out of a conservative mindset in order to take advantage of the European law and truly transform into data-driven companies.

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From Hype to Hope: Key Lessons on AI in Security, Innersource, and the Evolving Threat Landscape

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However, social engineering is a common tactic, so it is advisable to continuously improve security awareness and education in an effort to decrease the effectiveness of social engineering attacks. Using a public cloud, for example, leads to a 22% increase in infrastructure flexibility relative to not using the cloud.