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7 steps for turning shadow IT into a competitive edge

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Following are seven steps to guide this transformation for competitive advantage. Ask IT leaders about their challenges with shadow IT, and most will cite the kinds of security, operational, and integration risks that give shadow IT its bad rep. That’s not to downplay the inherent risks of shadow IT.

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Embracing neurodiversity in IT for competitive advantage

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So each neurodiverse professional’s experience is unique, but speaking for myself, being neurodiverse has been a huge competitive advantage in my technology career. The term neurodiversity covers a range of conditions, as well as the various spectrums within each. But doing so may require some changes in approach.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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Officials at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology found themselves in a position familiar to most IT organizations: aware of the need to do more to attract IT workers given that they — like most employers — faced fierce competition for talent. We’re hoping that the interns will turn into full-time employees,” he says.

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

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If you have experience in any of these 10 skills, it might be worth upskilling to expert proficiency to gain a competitive edge in the market. The list of highest-paying IT skills is always shifting as technology evolves, but some skills have consistently maintained earning power for IT pros over the years.

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12 Plays to Kickstart Your Recruitment Process

That means placing the right people in the right roles can be the difference between your business growing or stagnating — and the competition is getting fierce. Good people are the foundation of any organization. To stay ahead in this race, every recruiter needs a good playbook. Download now!

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO

To Carm Taglienti, the explosion of all things AI over the past few years has been both a pro and a con to IT teams. On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says. “We

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What most CIOs get wrong about strategic IT plans

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Which is one reason this matters to CIOs: Different competitors call for different IT-based business capabilities in order to create and sustain competitive advantage. ” Our conversations on the subject were, admittedly, repetitious, but we were younger then — the needling and counters were the point. But it wasn’t, I insisted, our plan.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Outrun Your Competition: Best Practices for Accelerating Sales Processes

Longer sales cycles. Larger buying committees. Slow-moving compliance reviews. Every go-to-market team knows the frustrations that come from a drawn-out sales process. How can you speed it up? By building a modern GTM motion that uses data, automation, and proven best practices to unlock insights, engage customers, and win faster.

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What Consumers Are Saying About ESG – And What That Means for Your Business

Consumers see businesses as crucial change agents and are willing to take their business to the competition if their current brand comes up short on ESG. A growing body of evidence shows that environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are important to business growth.

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The State of Business Intelligence in 2022

Speaker: Howard Dresner & Chandrashekar (a.k.a. LSP)

In hyper-competitive markets, modern businesses need to stay dynamic and always be evolving. That's why many organizations have embraced data-driven decision-making as the fulcrum for accelerated business growth, and this trend is here to stay.