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Are you happy in your current role?

People & Leadership Talent Management & Performance

Yes

Unsure

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Has AWS been bad for the open-source movement?

Strategy & Architecture Cloud Governance, Risk & Compliance+2 more

Yes

Debatable

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What's the most overrated security product buzzword?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Security & GRC Regulatory Compliance+2 more

Perimeterless

Zero-trust

Predictive

Zero day

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Alejandro Mayorkas has been confirmed as the Secretary of Homeland Security, after much controversy. How do you feel about his confirmation?

Security & GRC

Positively

Negatively

Neutral

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How do vendor security reviews influence technology purchases?

Cloud End-User Services & Collaboration Applications & Platforms+23 more

None, we don't perform vendor security reviews

Very little, our vendor reviews are mostly a box-checking exercises

Sometimes vendor security reviews delay purchases but they don't change outcomes

Vendor security reviews break ties between equal vendors

Vendor reviews make security a key buying criteria

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What is the most effective frequency for 1-on-1 meetings with direct reports?

People & Leadership Strategy & Architecture Cloud+15 more

Once a week

Once every 2 weeks

Once a month

Adhoc

What 1-on-1?

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When making a new technology solution purchase, how many RFPs do you request from vendors?

Enterprise Applications Vendor/Product Assessment

1-2

3-5

5 +

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I prefer my company to work with vendors that have robust partner ecosystems.

Partnerships Vendor/Product Assessment

Strongly agree

Agree

Neither agree nor disagree

Disagree

Strongly disagree

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Which vendors/partners are essential to your ability to deliver applications to support your business?

Applications & Platforms Vendor/Product Assessment

Amazon

Google

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

Red Hat

SAP

Vmware

None of these

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What is the title of the senior-most data leader at your org?

Data & Analytics People & Leadership

Chief data and analytics officer (CDAO)

Chief data officer (CDO)

Chief analytics officer (CAO)

Head of data and analytics

Other (please specify in comments)

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Who has a successful Configuration Management program for an application or service? Similarly, who has a Change Management program, linked to it's Configuration Management program?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Applications & Platforms

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How has cloud technologies altered your business continuity strategy?

Disruptive & Emerging Technologies Cloud Strategy & Architecture

Bernard LannanChief Technology Officer (CTO)a year ago

From a business person's perspective it hasn't changed at all. If the SLA with our internal customer (the Business) is recovery back to operations within 24 hours, then we design our Cloud contracts to cover that ...read more

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We have a provider we've been working with for 2+ years, recently someone from the CxO team suggested that we should hire someone from that specific provider, thus avoiding the need to hire a candidate that would go through a deep learning curve. The problem is that we have a contract with that provider that prevents us to hire someone from their team, the penalties are high if we think of doing so. The Chief Legal Officer told the CxO team we could circumvent this contract clause. I'm against this behaviour and actions, I understand perfectly the benefits of not having to hire someone new and avoiding the learning curve. But doing this kind of stuff feels bad in all senses. What would you do to let the CxO team not to go this way?

Process Management Mentoring & Coaching Culture & Values

Bernard LannanChief Technology Officer (CTO)4 months ago

I see it as a breach of ethics. I would use that argument to start with, and then move to it could sour the relationship with the vendor. Ultimately, it could end up costing the company more money and time to replace that ...read more

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What role do you see Gen AI playing in the future of IT organization?

Generative AI IT Strategy & Roadmap

Bernard LannanChief Technology Officer (CTO)a year ago

I think the role of IT will be in governance, so understanding how it's deployed, the security, who's responsible in each of the lines of businesses, but also with cost optimization from running models and supporting ...read more

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What is your advice for Small companies regarding incident/change management tools? We have 10 People and 1 in IT.

Management Tools Data Center Contact Center & Telecom

Bernard LannanChief Technology Officer (CTO)a year ago

I used managengine when I was at an 8 person startup, which worked well (though there was a little bit of a learning curve)

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