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Technology & Innovation

Cloud computing: Some companies are still failing to optimize their cloud assets effectively. Tech leaders need a much stronger governance framework to prevent “cloud sprawl” driving up costs and creating inefficiencies.

AI: Companies including Bank of America, Autodesk and real estate giant JLL are banking on sensors and AI to help ensure a safe return to offices.

Innovation: Brainstorming new products and services is tougher to do when people can’t get together in person. “Networked Improvement Communities,” one of which helped create the original internet, could prove the answer.

Strategy & Leadership

Strategic communication: The best leaders are adept at recounting stories to amplify the messages they want to get across, but there’s a real art to identifying ones that will resonate the most.

Business planning: In today’s world, there’s less clarity than ever before about how tech investments are likely to play out. Vijay Gurbaxani, the head of University of California, Irvine’s Center for Digital Transformation, argues that in this operating environment CIOs need to start thinking like hackers—the good kind, of course!

Automation: Seven Historically Black Colleges & Universities have partnered with UiPath, an enterprise software automation company, to teach students the skills to make software "robots" run applications that automate tedious business processes and communicate with other digital systems.

Talent & Careers

Managing remote teams: Advice and guidance from an experienced IT project manager on how to keep distributed teams aligned and productive.

Navigating Change: The future of work now looks dramatically different than anyone could have imagined just a year ago—and in many organizations, CIOs are playing a key role in defining what that future looks like. Read and watch what CIOs from leading brands had to say about hybrid workplaces, fostering better collaboration and more in the first virtual event of our 2021 Forbes CIO Summit Series.

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