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The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In too many companies, an innovation team is allowed to pursue its own agenda and imagine itself to be a separate island from the rest of the company. The root problem is the disconnect between strategy and innovation. The author offers five steps to help embed strategy into the innovation process.

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Balancing Innovation and Governance: The CDO’s Dilemma

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Data Officer The role of a Chief Data Officer or CDO is fundamental in modern data-centric companies and is multifaceted, requiring a unique combination of skills. These specialized operations require a unique combination of creative innovation and strict regulatory compliance.

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Essential skills and traits of chief AI officers

CIO

As such, they should have a proven track record of leading successful innovation programs and a clear understanding of how AI can transform the organization with ethics and governance in mind. Companies want candidates who can drive innovation, deliver meaningful business results, and work closely with other leaders to manage risks.

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The New Age of Operations: Modern COO Search Strategies by N2Growth

N2Growth Blog

Today’s COO wears many hats and is instrumental in executing corporate strategy, fostering innovation, driving technological integration, and steering the company toward its goals with insightful leadership. Thus, empathy and inclusive leadership have emerged as indispensable traits in the modern COO’s repertoire.

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Italian CIOs at the crossroads of transformation and sustainability

CIO

Meanwhile, the corporate philosophy of Generalfinance, a financial services company focused on SMEs in difficulty, also combines innovation and sustainability. Business plans are focused on digital and sustainable transformation to bring us closer to the goal of a data-driven company,” says its CIO, Stefano Biondini.

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Why CIOs back API governance to avoid tech sprawl

CIO

Most companies have transitioned to become more software-centric, and with this transformation, application programming interfaces (APIs) have proliferated. If companies want to input, leverage, and embed these digital brains into their business, they’ll need an API to connect the LLM to various business applications,” he says.

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Strategic planning must change with the times

N2Growth Blog

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times.