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

People & Leadership

Hiring / Retaining talent40%

Eng not moving fast enough36%

Marketing not moving fast enough10%

Sales not moving fast enough6%

Other (please comment)5%

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Assistant Director IT Auditor in Education, 10,001+ employees

Getting the person with the right talent is very challenging especially when you have salary constraints also the person with propper work ethics that follows the organization norms or easily adopt.

IT Regional Manager - Senior Consultant - Technical Writer - Blogger in Software, 5,001 - 10,000 employees

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.

Director of Technology Strategy in Services (non-Government), 2 - 10 employees

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

Director in Manufacturing, 1,001 - 5,000 employees

Cost reduction targets

Director in Construction, 1,001 - 5,000 employees

Infosec

Director in Manufacturing, 1,001 - 5,000 employees

Layoffs if business doesn’t sell enough
Security breaches

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