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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy. They resort to scare tactics or security risks We all know the saying “Never waste a crisis” as a tool to bring attention to the big investments no one wants to make.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The cloud journey completed Even before the system landscape is changed, Volvo Cars has made its cloud journey — one of the big, ongoing programs when Altehed started his role in 2019. “We The result, for example, is no more roles such as scrum master and release train engineer, while project managers and program managers have returned. “So

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6 smart practices for better business-IT alignment

CIO Business Intelligence

That person is now a Scrum master at a major insurance company. So far, about 1,000 Liberty Mutual executives have taken the program since it began in 2019. I brought them in because they were hungry, humble, and smart, and I wanted them to build a relationship with the business and then translate that back.”

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Broadcom Software Return to Face-to-Face Customer Engagements

CIO Business Intelligence

Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. It’s not uncommon for us to come across customers with a couple of hundred vendors in the same security stack. Lingering skills gap. Vitality is a skills development program designed to cultivate next-gen mainframe talent.