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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging. Additionally, 84% of leaders believed their organizations had strong teamwork compared to 60% of team members.

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CIOs take note: Platform engineering teams are the future core of IT orgs

CIO

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. We see this as a strategic priority to improve developer experience and productivity,” he says.

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7 ways diversity and inclusion help teams perform better

CIO

Politics — and even marketing — aside, there is no doubt that your teams should be diverse. This is not for social justice or corporate altruism,” explains Cheryl Stokes, CEO of CNEXT, a leadership development and executive networking business. “It Diversity makes your company — and your teams — more creative and innovative.

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The extent Automic’s group CIO goes to reconcile data

CIO

On the IT front, group CIO Marcelo Dantas and his team look after technology across the entire business, which includes product engineering, service, security and infrastructure. Building trust within and among teams and promoting collaboration are integral to success. It’s not always about the money. If so, we’re ready to go.

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Improving cloud ROI—and why CIOs are just the ones to do it

CIO

Here are some contributing factors: The impact of “Shadow IT,” a trend that grew steadily during the last decade as business groups implemented SaaS solutions with little IT involvement. The recent explosion of generative AI (GenAI) is beginning to expose many of the weaknesses of shadow IT.

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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO

This requires evaluating competitors’ strategies; identifying strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities; and leveraging insights from the competitive market analysis team or similar teams within the organization. IDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG Inc.),

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon. You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Pivot frequently.