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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

CIO

She took a position as a senior IT program manager, then global IT director and next delegate CIO. She left that position — and Austria — in 2017 to become the CIO for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Early on she encountered men who said they didn’t want women in leadership roles. Plotting a path forward S.

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Bringing the National Museum of African American History and Culture to the world

CIO

“After we opened the museum, the director and curatorial staff were talking about how to how to reach even more people who wouldn’t be able to come to the museum and experience it,” says Jill Roberts, program manager of the Searchable Museum at the Office of Digital Strategy and Engagement (ODSE). “We And it’s working.

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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

TechCrunch

In a blog post in February 2017 , she described her boss coming on to her in a company chat channel on her first day on the job. Yury Roa, SRE technical program manager at ADL Digital Labs in Bogota, Colombia. That inequity leads to a power imbalance, which can lead to toxic working environments.

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At Chaos, a chaotic response to assault allegations

The Parallax

Solveig-Jalkanen is involved in several European hacker communities under the pseudonym Thomas Covenant , including SHA 2017 , Free Software Foundation Europe , and Amsterdam TechInc. ” —Caren Goldberg, management professor, Bowie State University. ”—Dia Kayyali, tech and advocacy program manager, Witness.

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The End of Enterprise IT

LeanEssays

The leadership team at ING Netherlands had examined its business model and come to an interesting conclusion: their bank was no longer a financial services company, it was a technology company in the financial services business. ING Netherlands’ leadership team decided to look to other technology companies, rather than banks, for inspiration.

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How to unlock value and enable sustainable digital transformation

Capgemini

It is the key to navigating the constant and healthy tension between maintaining operational continuity, managing implementation cost and schedule, and achieving value realization , and must be kept in the forefront throughout transformation. Significant cultural shifts are occurring and organizations are being stretched. REFERENCES.

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Transforming to an Agile Mindset, Part 3

Accenture

Much of this journey, he outlines in his 2017 book “Hit Refresh.” There was gradual buy-in with teams and leadership.” Aaron Bjork, Principal Group Program Manager within the DevDiv, described it as a journey that was anything but a straight path from A to B. He brought unique insight into what needed to change.

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