Weekly Digest  |  August 14, 2020

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CIO Best Practice: Balancing Security, Flexibility, and Efficiency with an Effective Materials Management Policy

While it is almost impossible to keep the entire fleet standard in the face of employee choice and flexibility, it is necessary to implement an organization-wide materials management policy that can provide standardization across the organization while still remaining flexible for employees. Read more...

Q&A: John Lukas, Vice President of Information Systems and Technology - RaceTrac

In this issue, John Lukas shared how his interest in technology at a young age led to the progression in his career path, from his first job as a software developer at Bristol-Myers to his current role. He walked us through the initiatives that he has overseen to date at his organization, his insight on RaceTrac’s technology goals for the next few years, and how he is seeing COVID-19 shaping innovation. Read more...

CIO Insight: IT Spend As a Percentage of Revenue

As technology leaders, not only are we often fighting for a seat at the table, we are also working to align our organization toward strategic investment in the technology function. Called upon to innovate, build our function, and align toward key business initiatives requires an ongoing and healthy IT investment but also an appropriate operational budget to sustain those capital investments.In August 2020, The National CIO Review polled our 2000+ member CIO Professional Network on their reported IT spend as a percentage of company revenue. Read more...

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Learning the Right Technology Leadership Lessons from COVID-19

Technology leaders from around the world are taking stock of the rapid transformation of their businesses that have occurred in 2020 when there was no other choice — and wondering what they can learn from the experience.

While no one would have wished a pandemic on the world, CIOs and CTOs can’t help noticing how many change management challenges melted away in the midst of the crisis or how much agility their organizations displayed.

The big question: how to translate the experience into positive, proactive digital transformation, going forward. Read more...

 IT LeaderBoard®: The Premier Job Site for Technology Leadership Talent 

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CIO Partners® Featured Role:Chief Technology Officer

CIO Partners is currently working with Ensemble Health Partners as their exclusive search partner for the role of Chief Technology Officer, located in Cincinnati, OH. Read more...