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The state of the IT leader
Discover what’s on IT leaders’ minds, including:
Top priorities for 2024
Specific obstacles with technology
Plans to get ahead
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Our finger is on the pulse of IT leadership.
The ability to recruit, develop, and retain top talent is the biggest differentiator between the companies that achieve their growth targets and the ones that fall behind the competition.
We surveyed more than 400 IT leaders, from managers to executives at US-based companies with between 200 to 1,000 full-time employees. Understand what your peers are working on and glean valuable insight from their mistakes, challenges, and wins.
We used to have a list we would spin up for every new employee, with 30 things we have to get done. With Rippling, that list is now gone.
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Brian Cahill,
Head of IT at Frogslayer
Insight into the priorities and perspectives of modern IT managers and executives
#1
priority for 2024 is data security and privacy
72%
note challenges with their current identity and MDM providers
47%
say their teams are held back by their technology