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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO Business Intelligence

Nonetheless, companies need to ensure that valuable corporate data is always available. Perform a comprehensive analysis of your corporate data, determine what data needs to be encrypted and infused with cyber resilience and what doesn’t, and figure out how the protection needs to keep your company in compliance. Reduce IT costs.

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State of the CIO, 2022: Focus turns to IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

Make sure you talk to colleagues in business terms so they understand how you’re delivering for them.”. Like so many companies coming off a two-year cycle of near-non-stop digitization, USPTO is in a bit of recalibration mode. A call to strengthen IT/business collaboration was also top of mind, referenced by 28% of respondents.

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The Monthly “Change Agent CIO” Book Tuning: IT Led Digital Transformation Sep. 2019

Future of CIO

IT matters more not only because it’s pervasive but also because it continues to advance and its nature of the "constructive disruption.” To stay competitive, companies must go beyond just experimenting with some digital technologies and commit to transforming themselves into a fully digital business powerhouse.

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Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO of transportation and logistics company Werner Enterprises has spent the bulk of his career doing full-blown transformation projects that often took two or three years to complete and ended up being a “massive, monolithic platform.” But by then, the business requirements had changed, “and frankly, it doesn’t work,’’ Mahon says.

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The Promises and Perils of IT Performance Management

Future of CIO

CIOs need to keep a measure and periodicity at which the measure is reviewed against setting targets and business goals: An effective CIO’s job is to improve operations to reduce the burden on the company while trying to stay current with ever-changing technologies and business dynamic.

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Thrive with Digital, Accelerating Intelligence for Electric Power

CIO Business Intelligence

Building a new power system involves green and low-carbon transformation, digital transformation, and business continuity management (BCM). Green and low-carbon transformation is the main mountain the power industry must climb to progress, which can only happen if the entire industry joins hands on it.

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Colocation: A Crucial Pillar for Building a Data-First Organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Lots of attention is being paid to how hybrid IT or multicloud fits into data-first business transformation, yet plenty of companies count colocation facilities as an important pillar of their IT landscape. Among the biggest obstacles companies need to work through are the following: Readiness and planning.