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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO Business Intelligence

1 business need driving tech spending for the current year, followed by increasing operational efficiency and improving customer experience. Transforming existing business processes, improving employee productivity, and improving profitability rounded out the top six. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

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3 Essential Cybersecurity Strategies for 2020

CDW Research Hub

There are also an increasing number of tools and strategies recommended to handle this challenge. Cut through the complexity with these three crucial strategies for improved cybersecurity. Use a data classification strategy to help you identify the varying values of your data so you can treat it accordingly.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO Business Intelligence

For decades, organizations have considered networking and security a cost of doing business. Business leaders consider IT a cost center, not a revenue generator. Regulatory requirements may differ, but the same principles for protecting and enabling businesses apply across all verticals. Important, but rarely revolutionary.

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Want to be a hybrid cloud winner? The recipe for XaaS success

IBM Big Data Hub

Picture this: your business is a dynamic player in your industry at the brink of a pivotal juncture. We’ve found in this new IBM-sponsored IDC white paper that the shift to delivering IT-as-a-service is foundational and extends the strategic transformation of IT infrastructure, adding even more value to the business. The result?

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Business drivers for the first wave of digital transformation through 2020 targeted growth, data capabilities, cloud migration, and delivering competitive technology capabilities. Even as the drivers for each digital era evolve, CIOs can still derail transformation by customizing solutions or prioritizing too many KPIs.

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Implementing Digital Sovereignty in the Journey to Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Continuing with current cloud adoption plans is a risky strategy because the challenges of managing and securing sensitive data are growing. Businesses cannot afford to maintain this status quo amid rising sovereignty concerns. As it becomes a dominant IT operating model, critical data is finding its way into the cloud.

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CIO Ryan Snyder on the benefits of interpreting data as a layer cake

CIO Business Intelligence

A data and analytics capability cannot emerge from an IT or business strategy alone. With both technology and business organization deeply involved in the what, why, and how of data, companies need to create cross-functional data teams to get the most out of it. That strategy is doomed to fail. What are the layers?