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The CIO’s fatal flaw: Too much leadership, not enough management

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Because what’s frequently missed in the perennial leadership vs. management fracas is that management is about getting work out the door. Leadership is an important collection of techniques managers use to get the people in their organization to embrace the direction they’re trying to set. So why does leadership get all the buzz?

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Stepping up to the challenge of a global conglomerate CIO role

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In a candid conversation with CIO.com, Dr. Urkude talks about his experience of confronting myriad challenges while transitioning from a small company to a large multinational enterprise, and how he has dealt with them thus far. The leadership in Reliance expects a CIO to work 24×7 as they don’t want any downtime in business.

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How Novanta’s CIO mobilized its data-driven transformation

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On investing in capabilities: We’ve set up something called a BI Center of Excellence where we train and have workshops and seminars on a monthly basis that team members across Novanta can join to learn about how they could leverage data marts or data sources to build their own reporting. Here are some edited excerpts of that conversation.

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The art of selling: IT budget approval made easier

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Sitting in this selling seminar, my persuasive difficulties with the CEO and CFO became immediately apparent to me. Unfortunately, moving people and operations to enterprise edges increases the attack surface for malicious actors. Budgeting, IT Leadership Why was I at this presentation, you ask? Who can argue with that?

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How to Book the Right Motivational Speaker

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Joyce, a manager at a fast-growing IT firm, had been tasked with finding the perfect motivational speaker for her company’s training seminar. Do you wish to increase productivity among your employees or to nurture leadership in your management team, for example? Presentation format of the seminar. Gina Greenlee.

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Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

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The goal is to shift the company from simply providing information to enterprises, says Mary-Alice Vuicic, chief people officer. As enterprises race to integrate cutting-edge tools and platforms, a greater focus to reskill employees on responsible and effective deployment becomes mission-critical. And then there are the legal risks.”

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Recap: DevOps Your Bureaucracy?

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As part of our ongoing series of web seminars , CEO Jeffery Payne hosted AWS Enterprise Strategist and author Mark Schwartz on March 4, 2021, for a discussion about creating a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy using agile and DevOps methods. DevOps Your Bureaucracy? Mark Schwartz.

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