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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

CIO

Bridging the gap between IT leadership and business strategy For CIOs and technology leaders, aligning IT with business goals demands more than technical knowledge; it requires a thorough understanding of the company’s overarching business objectives, competitive landscape, culture, capabilities, and long-term vision.

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To gain advantage, IT leaders should turn competitors into collaborators

CIO

When building such a strategy for a business, I encourage tech leaders to first examine their competitive landscape, and then ask what the drivers of change are in their markets, and what dynamics are influencing the environment in which they compete.

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BMC to split into two independent organizations

CIO

Each of these businesses has its own profile and characteristics in growth opportunities, margins and profitability, and competitive landscape.” He added that this theory is “totally a crapshoot on my part and I have no knowledge that will happen.”

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Vertical solutions rise in 2024

CIO

Shallower Competitive Landscape: The horizontal SaaS market is a deeply entrenched – and scarred – battlefield. Deep industry domain knowledge takes time – and experience – to build, and generally requires a much more expansive delivery model. They understand the jargon, the workflows, the pain points.

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What is Sales Enablement? Steps to Building an Enablement Strategy

Zoominfo

To be successful, sales professionals need to be experts in many different areas at once: their product’s strengths and weaknesses, their prospects’ pain points and needs, and the broader economic and competitive landscapes. To give sellers a fighting chance, sales leaders need to build an effective, flexible sales enablement program.

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Five Factors Affecting a Competitive Intelligence Team's Efficiency

ArchIntel

As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, M/CI analysts must be able to help their companies navigate the competitive landscape. The fourth factor is having “high-performing people.”

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The power of unified data storage with generative AI

CIO

Whether you’re using RAG or fine-tuning a large language model (LLM), you can work with a rich and diverse dataset, regardless of location, to help provide nuanced language patterns, cultural references, and proprietary knowledge, making your AI more effective in producing accurate and domain-specific answers.