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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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Generative AI’s change management challenge

CIO

BCG asked 12,898 frontline employees, managers, and leaders in large organizations around the world how they felt about AI: 61% listed curiosity as one of their two strongest feelings, 52% listed optimism, 30% concern, and 26% confidence. This is a massive number,” Bellefonds said. “We We really have to address this upskilling issue.”

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

Historically, our jobs as infrastructure and security professionals have involved installing the “plumbing” that ensures organizations remain connected through traditional networking and security practices. For decades, organizations have considered networking and security a cost of doing business. Important, but rarely revolutionary.

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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation

CIO

So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.

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How to create a culture of innovation

CIO

So much has changed since the early days of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to rethink where and how people work. What didn’t change was the need for organizations to continue to move forward with digital initiatives. Lorraine Marchand, executive managing director, Merative.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

CIOs are at the forefront of this as they help shepherd their organizations through digitalization. Digital is a powerful business lever,” says Alessandra Luksch, director of the Digital Transformation Academy Observatory at Politecnico di Milano, which has been mapping trends in ICT spending by Italian organizations since 2016. “In

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Retaining the Best of Your Culture Amid Organizational Change

Harvard Business Review

While leaders are often focused on how to transform their organizations — and, specifically, their cultures — an equally difficult challenge is keeping a culture steady. As companies go through big changes, they need to retain the best elements of their shared assumptions, values, and common behaviors.

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