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Skills the Irish Government CIO uses to advance digital transformation

CIO

By the time he took up the CIO role in 2016, Lowry had already formed a leadership style more carrot than stick. They did a review of the worldwide response to COVID and lauded Ireland as the best response in terms of how technology was used.” Both of those were specifically called out by Bloomberg,” he says.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO

In November 2021 it turned on a new ERP system intended to support international growth with improved operational visibility and financial reporting capabilities. The company was forced to develop new processes to keep information flowing around the business, and hire a third-party consultant to sort out the ERP system at a cost of $3.8

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

“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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Coaching your IT team for change: 9 tips

CIO

Even those once adaptable may have become change resistant due to years of near-constant turbulence. One Gartner study found that willingness to support organizational change dropped from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. Getting your team to accept, and even embrace, change is an essential leadership skill.

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Nigeria’s Helium Health acquires Qatar’s Meddy in rare Africa-GCC deal

TechCrunch

Meddy CEO Haris Aghadi and COO Abed Alkarim Khattab will join Helium’s leadership team as part of the deal. The company, founded by Olubisi, Dimeji Sofowora and Tito Ovia in 2016, is well-known for its core electronic medical records (EMR) and hospital management solutions in Africa. Helium Health. “But

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

This make sense making for leadership within organizations very challenging. An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. The decline in the value is the period of time a system absorbs the stress, and recovery is when the value output is on the rise. See figure 1.

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The Ohio State University Assumes Leadership of Cybersecurity Canon

Palo Alto Networks

At the same time, Palo Alto Networks, which has been the project’s primary sponsor since it was started seven years ago, passes primary leadership of the project to The Ohio State University. . Altogether, the project has named 36 books to its Hall of Fame and published some 90 book reviews. I am very proud of this effort.”.