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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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They ensure that decisions are aligned with both short-term goals and long-term sustainability Strategist: The enterprise architect aligns technology initiatives with the businesss vision, ensuring that technology choices drive value and competitive advantage. This requires long-term thinking and investment.

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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

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Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with.

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3 things CIOs can do to make gen AI synch with sustainability

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On the surface and as it exists today, AI and sustainability take you in opposite directions,” says Srini Koushik, president of AI, technology and sustainability at Rackspace Technology. “AI Sundberg knows about as much as anybody on Scope 3 reporting and covers the subject in his book Sustainable IT playbook for technology leaders.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

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CRAWL: Design a robust cloud strategy and approach modernization with the right mindset Modern businesses must be extremely agile in their ability to respond quickly to rapidly changing markets, events, subscriptions-based economy and excellent experience demanding customers to grow and sustain in the ever-ruthless competitive world of consumerism.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

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Finally, theres the question of long-term sustainability. And the underlying base models are changing rapidly, he adds. If you customize something and the base model changes, you have to re-customize it. Monetizing is hard, so whos going to continue bankrolling these models?

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

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While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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There are also leveraging crowdsourcing platforms, direct sourcing agencies, and freelance marketplaces, as well as nonprofit programs with expertise in specific areas such as sustainability. Dig into talent management details. To be sustainable, these partnerships must be mutually beneficial. Double down on vendor management.