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What it takes to win your first CIO role

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Boston Medical Center’s Brown took that charter to heart, navigating critical leadership training, digital experience, and P&L responsibility at GE and Vanguard and going deep on data, AI/machine learning, and analytics through positions at Capital One and Verizon to round out her CIO pedigree.

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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. Capitalizing on technology budgets presents a viable solution. Focus on value, not just price : The lowest bidder does not always win.

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Leading the digital charge: Inspiring innovation and fostering a culture of excellence

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For the employees, this freed-up human capital helps to invest more time in activities that require human expertise, judgment and creativity, and obtain better work-life harmony. Go for small and solid wins Technologies in the digital realm are evolving day by day, some of them incrementally but a lot of them exponentially.

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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

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I am not certain “war” is the appropriate metaphor for dealing with the massively complex human capital predicament CIOs are working through. Rather than “battle-plan” how to “win” given this faltering human capital pipeline, t he only rational alternative is to create your own talent supply chain.

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Former Amazon exec John Rossman on delivering big bets

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Rossman joined me on a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast for the launch of his latest book, Big Bet Leadership: Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era. The subtitle of the book is ‘Your Transformation Playbook for Winning in the Hyper-Digital Era.’

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3 business benefits of stronger security using Zero Trust principles

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3 business benefits of stronger security Having a more secure IoT network is a huge win in itself, but there are three additional benefits worth knowing about. A winning combination of security solutions will help accelerate returns on your Industry 4.0 All of these functions can lower capital expenditures and operating expenses.

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Data Analytics: Strategies to Demonstrate Value and Achieve Transformation

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How is data analytics helping us drive down capital expenditure and operating costs? Gaining momentum through early wins Early wins provide momentum as well as a foundation from which teams build a sense of community and confidence. How does the data analytics program reduce losses for the business?

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