As a technology executive, what keeps you up at night?

Leadership

Hiring / Retaining talent32%

Eng not moving fast enough41%

Marketing not moving fast enough11%

Sales not moving fast enough8%

Other (please comment)6%

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Director in Manufacturing3 years ago

Layoffs if business doesn’t sell enough
Security breaches

Director in Construction4 years ago

Infosec

Director in Manufacturing4 years ago

Cost reduction targets

Fractional CIO in Services (non-Government)5 years ago

Ensuring we are delivering complete business value in what we do.

IT Regional Manager - Senior Consultant - Technical Writer - Blogger in Software6 years ago

totally agree with Clifton. but its not only the problem "as much as you can with less that you can", I guess that is also a problem of HR that not always are alligned with our requirements. This also happend to us when we look for new oportunities, is complex to find them.

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