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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

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Cannava says developing authentic personal relationships with your peers can help key in on areas of natural alignment — and avoid wasting time on projects where it’s unclear how to measure the outcome. “If It’s imperative to keep the team in the know, so that projects can stay on track and under budget,” Alarid says.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

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By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Cloud-native is much more than just technology,” Rubina says.

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10 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

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And CIOs said the need for security improvements is the top driver of IT budget increases. Those projects include implementing cloud-based security, anti-ransomware, and user behavior analytics tools, as well as various authentication technologies. Foundry / CIO.com 3. (No.

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