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The skills and traits of elite CTOs

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Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. Here are some of the most significant attributes CTOs need to succeed, according to advisors and those in the role.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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In this conversation with Foundry, Kopal dives deep into her career progression, the challenges of marrying manufacturing with digitization and WABTEC’s commitment to sustainability. Initially, I was naïve about the infrastructure space, but was fortunate to have a great mentor. What does sustainability look like for WABTEC ?

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7 IT leadership hacks that deliver results

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Turn employees into leaders The best leadership hack is a self-sustaining one, says Chetna Mahajan, chief digital and information officer at Amplitude: Create an environment that produces more good leaders. “It’s important to empower employees, especially your leaders,” Mahajan says.

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Make Your Innovation Program a Slam Dunk Success with a Chief Innovation Officer

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You can fund innovation management all you want, but that alone might not be enough to achieve tangible results. As such, innovation affects every facet of the business, from R&D to IT, to finance and operations, to name a few. So why do the same for innovation? Goooooooooooooooooooood day folks!

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Think in Systems to Propel Your Transformation

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Such an interconnected constellation accounts for the broad range of endeavours from strategy development, buying decisions, digital innovations, and transformation realization to system modernization itself. To see the dynamics between different components, “systems thinking” can help. Even businesses and humans themselves are systems!

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

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For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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