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Giant Eagle CIO Kirk Ball’s recipe for digital transformation success

CIO

Ball embodies the key leadership attributes that separate top CIOs from the rest, differentiators I’ve dubbed the 7 Cs, because these leaders maintain a laser-like focus on customer, culture, cultivating talent, courage, change, communication, and collaboration. Why is that an important guiding principle of your leadership?

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

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It was time to step out of India,” says Pant, who quit his position as CIO of Mumbai-based conglomerate Welspun Group to join automotive distributor and consumer electronics company OTE Group as its CIO in Muscat, Oman. “It With lots of Indians here and not much of a time difference, change management is less, too.”

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Why does the leadership of a socio-economic community of nearly 450 million people simply check out? Hence there has been increased consolidation (proposed and real) in the automotive industry in the past decade: an automaker needs scale to develop EV technologies to compete. The dominant sentiment in modern-day Europe is anxiety.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO

Trust One is also knee deep in transforming its IT organization and operating model, transitioning away from a program management office (PMO) to a product-centered organization. Listening to employees and understanding what’s working and what’s not is central to the change management exercise, and to winning collective hearts and minds.

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6 BI challenges IT teams must address

CIO

and a leading distributor of automotive aftermarket parts based in Zug, Switzerland. Dealing with resistance to change Change management was the number-one struggle Happy Feet International faced implementing business intelligence, says Nick Schwartz, CIO of the luxury vinyl plank and tile flooring company based in Ringgold, Ga.

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Leaders: Build Your Pre-Resilience for Times of Crisis

Strategy Driven

We explored those questions while researching for our recent book, Navigating an Organizational Crisis : When Leadership Matters Most , (available on Amazon) and came away with some insight about how leaders might ready themselves. How can leaders prepare, knowing disasters are becoming commonplace? We call it “pre-resilience.”