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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

CIO

What really matters is determining how to fit every function together to achieve unified goals — chiefly IT and its business counterparts, given the importance technology has organizationwide. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says.

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ESG reporting: Carbon in the cloud

CIO

Environment, social, and governance (ESG) concerns have become increasingly important for all organizations. As organizations increasingly outsource to cloud service providers for many technical and financial benefits, the power consumed and carbon produced are now controlled by the provider, wherever its cloud datacenters may be.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. D ue diligence pays off. Invest in workforce planning.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. It’s hard to deliver business outcomes from any technology investment without business executives as partners.

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO

Tech companies have laid off over 250 thousand employees since 2022, and 93% of CEOs report preparing for a US recession over the next 12 to 18 months. CIOs should consider technologies that promote their hybrid working models to replace in-person meetings. What are force-multiplying initiatives?

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AI makes edge computing more relevant to CIOs

CIO

But gen AI in the enterprise has seen incredible hype, with actually few value-added use cases , analysts popping the bubble, and some tech leaders pulling the plug. The recent deceleration in interest around AI has Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA, cautioning leaders to make sensible investments.

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The DX roadmap: David Rogers on driving digital transformation success

CIO

A major reason so many digital transformation programs fail is that enterprises view them as technology problems rather than the organizational challenges they truly are. To move beyond their comfort zones and drive growth, organizations need flexibility in governance. How can a CIO help develop this?