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2024 CIO50 Saudi Arabia Awards: Nominations are now open

CIO Business Intelligence

Innovators and Disruptors : Celebrating visionary leaders who have embraced innovation, driving the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and pioneering new approaches to solve business challenges.

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What is GRC? The rising importance of governance, risk, and compliance

CIO Business Intelligence

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) is an operational strategy for managing an organization’s overall governance, enterprise risk management , and regulation compliance efforts. These executive lead risk or compliance departments with dedicated teams. GRC is overarching.

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How to build a successful procurement strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

Gather diverse insights, understand needs and manage expectations. Determine business objectives Define specific measurable, achievable, relevant and timely (SMART) objectives for the procurement function. The strategy should be flexible enough to adapt to changing market conditions and organizational needs.

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7 IT governance mistakes — and how to avoid them

CIO Business Intelligence

Governance should be designed with adaptability in mind to ensure IT remains in alignment with business objectives, continually providing value while effectively safeguarding the organization against potential risks, Bales says. Poor risk planning. Using past methods to measure future progress.

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Building cyber resiliency for your data with IBM FlashSystem

IBM Big Data Hub

While the need for reliable, resilient, recoverable and corruption-free data governance has long been achieved by a backup and recovery routine, more modern techniques have been developed to support proactive measures that protect against threats before they occur. Cyber resiliency goes beyond mere cybersecurity measures.

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Top 10 Elements for Developing a Strong Information Security Program

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To support these plans, components such as prevention and detection mechanisms, access management, incident response, privacy and compliance, risk management, audit and monitoring, and business continuity planning are all necessary to a successful security program. Develop a security risk management program.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Business leaders get scared and say, ‘Tell me the plan so I can sleep at night,’” said Ronica Roth, co-founder and principal of The Welcome Elephant. Agile has to work within the context of the organization, whether it’s the process of financial reporting, estimation, or forecasting,” said Phil Heijkoop, general manager of Aligned Agility.