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CIO Ralph Loura on empathetic leadership that delivers results

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Among other accolades, he was named Consumer Goods Technology’s 2013 CIO of the Year and was the 2021 recipient of the Bay Area CIO of the Year ORBIE award for Leadership. Humility, Empathy, Adaptability, Resiliency, and Transparency) have become fundamental to his leadership style. IT Leadership

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

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For respondents anticipating an HPC budget reduction, the goal is to reallocate dollars to sustainability initiatives. For instance, Dell Technologies, a committed steward of sustainability, has worked to decrease energy intensity across its entire portfolio, achieving a 76% reduction since 2013. IT Leadership

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

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In The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (IT Revolution Press, 2013 ) , Bill — an IT manager — takes over a critical project that’s over budget and behind schedule. There they discovered that leadership is the element most essential to team success — even in the worst situations.

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Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup

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No matter how much irresponsibility on the part of leadership or others within the organization may have contributed to said demise, the majority of the company’s employees likely worked very hard to help it be successful and don’t deserve to be mocked or ridiculed, even if not directly. Now on to funding rounds.

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12 Lessons Learned while Managing Corporate Innovation

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In 2013, I was working in-house for a large manufacturer. Problem : There were eager individuals who loved the opportunity to submit ideas and present them to leadership, yet they were declined repeatedly. Action : We started asking company leadership about the problems they faced. We started matching people to ideas.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

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The ongoing delays and costs appear not to have pleased Invacare’s board, which two weeks later nudged Monaghan out saying the company needed “a change in leadership to oversee the successful execution of Invacare’s business transformation.” The company rolled out the new ERP in January 2022, coinciding with its new fiscal year.

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Book Review

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The Phoenix Project First Published: January 29, 2013, By Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford The short version: The Phoenix Project is to IT what the best of the Harvard Business Review cases are to a business. This should be required reading for senior-level IT leadership everywhere. Book Review?—?The