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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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Step 1 to becoming a business-savvy CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

Business alignment is often heralded as a key tenet of successful IT strategies. For example, if you are in banking, your organization is likely to measure itself by profitability ratios such as net interest margin (the difference between interest income generated and interest expenses) or PCL (provision for credit losses).

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See, Think, Do, Care Wining Combo: Content + Marketing + Measurement!

Occam's Razor

Over the last year, I've also worked with many companies to drive new and rapid innovation in their digital strategies using the framework. My hope is to better assist you in your own journey in using the framework to unlock imagination, build intent-based audience strategies, deliver joy to them and accelerate business profit.

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Data Strategy Creation – A Roadmap

Peter James Thomas

Data Strategy creation is one of the main pieces of work that I have been engaged in over the last decade [1]. In my last article, Measuring Maturity , I wrote about Data Maturity and how this relates to both Data Strategy and a Data Capability Review. I find Data Strategy creation a very rewarding process.

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Building a Data Strategy for Defence Partners

Alation

Data gathering and use pervades almost every business function these days — and it’s widely acknowledged that businesses with a clear strategy around data are best placed to succeed in competitive, challenging markets such as defence. What is a data strategy? Why is a data strategy important?

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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it’s worth remembering that their authors don’t face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it. As CIO, you’re in the risk business.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. But many CIOs, worried about going over budget, pre-book too much capacity. But for other tools where latency isn’t critical, we don’t measure it.”