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CIOs must become chief IT evangelists

CIO Business Intelligence

These external-facing positions have been established to educate users and enterprises about a company’s offerings and inspire those potential customers to adopt them. After all, change management is a vital component of digital transformation success. Why be an evangelist? 1 for CIOs to do the selling.

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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

CIO Business Intelligence

Transformational CIOs continuously invest in their operating model by developing product management, design thinking, agile, DevOps, change management, and data-driven practices. CIOs must also drive knowledge management, training, and change management programs to help employees adapt to AI-enabled workflows.

Strategy 359
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Top 11 change management certifications to boost your IT career

CIO Business Intelligence

Whenever an organization implements a new process, updates an existing process, deploys new technology, or fine-tunes services, its leaders must be mindful that even a simple change to a single process can start a domino effect, introducing issues in a range of other processes that must also be addressed. AIM Change Management Certification.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Top CIOs rebrand IT as part of a transformational vision that inspires the IT team, employees, stakeholders, and executives to experiment and drive change. These CIOs also avoid digital transformation’s change management mistakes by guiding IT teams to drive end-user adoption, capture feedback, and iteratively improve solutions.

Agile 352
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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

What CIOs can do: Educate DevOps teams on open source security risks , establish governance policies on evaluating and approving open-source packages, and use SAST tools to find code vulnerabilities. Another concern is if regulations force holistic model retraining, forcing CIOs to switch to alternatives to remain compliant.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Deloittes State of Generative AI in the Enterprise found that only 20% of organizations are highly prepared for talent considerations in adopting gen AI compared to 45% in technology infrastructure and 41% in data management. This data suggests change management efforts are lagging technology efforts at many organizations.

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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros

Network World

Individuals want to seek out certifications for their own knowledge, skills, and competencies, says Matt Hawkins, director of Uptime Education at the Uptime Institute, and for their current job or career aspiration and career advancements. Uptime Education, for example, has a recertification program every three years.