CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

CIOs and others who manage technology teams are advised to see beyond the churn of constant upskilling, and consider what people excel at: creativity and critical thinking, business strategy, and building strong relationships that increase employee satisfaction while boosting the organization’s performance.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. One thing that is clear is we will need to partner and work across industries to solve truly big problems that all organizations are facing.”

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Xebia

JANUARY 15, 2024

We have seen organizations where it wasn’t. What do we need to work on to create the same circumstances in your organization? Picking up on learnings from many dozens of organizations, in this article we suggest five tips to ease your portfolio management. Let’s switch glasses and look at the topic from a greater distance.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

You will spend on clusters with high-bandwidth networks to build almost HPC [high-performance computing]-like environments,” warns Peter Rutten, research vice president for performance-intensive computing at IDC. Before a job is complete, an HITL examines output for accuracy and cultural relevance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this episode of the Leadership without Losing Your Soul Podcast, our guest, Chinazom Nwabueze, discusses the importance of mental health and its connection to overall wellbeing and performance. Chinazom also highlights the importance of leaders modeling mental fitness and creating a culture that supports and encourages it.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In the age of digital transformation, the CIO’s role is increasingly central to business, focused on driving growth and establishing a new digital culture across the organization. It’s important for the CEO to make his presence felt and support the new culture.” Even moving from a paper document to a file can be challenging.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In order to create a culture where product teams own the reliability of their offerings, the Digital Payments team made seven instrumental changes: Define, measure, and reveal product goals : We broke down and extended key reliability goals to each product area. My team at Discover Financial Services is responsible for digital payments.

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Xebia

APRIL 14, 2023

Scope 3 : All other indirect emissions from activities of an organization from sources it doesn’t control. Drill-downs can be made based on summary, by geography, by service, by statistics over time and by the path to 100% renewable energy. Each grid is different and not all grids are equally using renewable energy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

With 2022 now in our rearview mirror, we still reflect on a time marked by global upheavals, like the Russia – Ukraine war, to the skyrocketing energy prices and global inflation. Cybercriminals specifically target sectors such as healthcare, energy, and transportation, recognizing the significant consequences at stake.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Here’s how a global executive search firm can ultimately allow a Board to operate at its peak performance and empower it to realize its most ambitious goals. They stand by the organization and the Board to support the interview process and work to vet candidates. What do executive board search firms do?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Companies also saw the conversation surrounding Chandler’s tweet and reached out, asking whether she could help them recruit Black talent into their organizations. They felt like those companies were being performative. But Chandler says this is more about people’s networks, and their inability to step outside their comfort zones.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations are facing an overwhelming amount of change. Market declines, increased competition and industry culture shifts all play an enormous role in how an organization functions. Most importantly, change management requires the organization to“Be the change you want to see in the world’.’

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Apiumhub

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Lately, the Green Software Foundation unveiled a manifesto to reshape the software development culture within the tech industry. Their objective is to make sustainability an integral focus for software teams, on par with performance, security, cost, and accessibility. This contributes to the fight against climate change.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

As a result, CIOs are looking at ways of doing more with less, while continuing to digitally transform their organizations. With these factors in mind, here are five steps CIOs and IT leaders can take to drive innovation and future-proof their organization. What kind of market penetration are we targeting among users?

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

The energy sector is in a consistent state of transformation—both digital and otherwise—but the word “transformation” can be thrown around loosely, as if it just happens with an organization. Change is challenging, and maintaining high-performance and diverse teams is fundamental to deliver success. “A They don’t suit everybody.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback. Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. This leadership post covers some of the most popular performance feedback tools and techniques that we teach in our leadership development programs.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix. There is little doubt that the best performing firms on the planet have exciting and healthy cultures – think Google, Southwest and Nike – while other organizations seem to be in a constant state of struggle to reach their full potential.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2023

For organizations seeking a collaborative win-win approach to outsourcing, the Vested sourcing business model is worth consideration. For example, a buying organization might want “outcomes,” but the contract spells out dozens or even hundreds of service level agreement metrics instead.

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Xebia

JUNE 21, 2021

Organizations need to rapidly respond to a changing world. In a knowledge intensive world, pressured by hypercompetition, new forms of organization are required to keep up. John Child in his book Organizations describes the concepts of integration and coordination, mechanisms to enable delivery of value. In simpler terms.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We spent some time afterwards delving into Ewing’s approach to building a high-performance culture and how that’s fostering digital enablement at the more than 130-year-old company. As a function of that, I need to have my distribution curve from a performance perspective skewed to the right. My mantra is, I play to win.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Guide using a North Star: “ Without vision, the people perish.” – Proverbs 29:18 When Lillie was a commander in the Air Force, he had 130 people under him performing mission-critical communications support to space assets during Desert Storm. So, why spend time and energy detailing such an outline? “My

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

CIO Kirk Ball is known for being a strategic executive capable of driving innovative thinking across the organization. How can we get better at defining what digital transformation means within our specific organizations, and why does it matter? A digital transformation also involves fundamental cultural change.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One organization at the forefront of clinical care and innovation is DaVita, one of the largest providers of kidney care services, with more than 2,800 outpatient dialysis centers in the US and close to 400 outpatient dialysis centers in 11 countries worldwide. IT culture is important today, especially in retaining and recruiting talent.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Titanium Intelligent Solutions, a global SaaS IoT organization, even saved one customer over 15% in energy costs across 50 distribution centers , thanks in large part to AI. With real-time AI, organizations aim to provide valuable insights during the moment of urgency; it’s about making instantaneous, business-driven decisions.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

Even with inflation, high energy costs, and the invasion of Ukraine, IT hiring continued at a record-setting pace, but keeping tech talent still poses challenges. Organizations are also considering relaxing the 40-hour workweek. Concerns about a looming recession have not derailed the booming IT job market.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

That has the potential to increase dramatically as organizations embrace AI, the internet of things, blockchain, and other resource-intensive emerging technologies. Public cloud data centers, by contrast, are 93% more energy-efficient and produce 98% lower GHG emissions than on-premises datacenters, according to Microsoft and WSP Global.

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Dots and Bridges

AUGUST 22, 2021

It is the cars we drive, the energy we consume, the water we drink, the food we eat. David Manz , Cybersecurity Group Leader and Principal Cyber Security Scientist within the National Security Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pete Tseronis at Dots and Bridges as they address Energy Sector transformation.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

That’s not hyperbole: TEKsystems’ 2024 State of Digital Transformation report found that 53% of organizations classified as digital leaders are confident that their digital investments will meet expected ROIs. But as a CIO, I don’t need an IT organization that’s writing apps. They target modernizations efforts at these unmet needs.

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Transitioning from mechanical challenges, the global freight organization has embraced more intricate trials, those of remote management, digitization, and preserving technical expertise and quality in the face of emerging obstacles. organization and pick up considerable data from our SCADA level systems. We are an industry 4.0

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CloudSphere

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Feedback mechanisms powered by AI algorithms are fostering a culture of continuous improvement, while tools for monitoring employee wellbeing are promoting a holistic approach to workforce management. These platforms can dynamically adjust content and delivery methods based on individual progress, feedback, and real-time performance data.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Episode 241: In this podcast episode, Dr. Jennifer Nash discusses the challenge to lead human and prioritize people, while also driving performance. She suggests that leaders start by leading themselves first and aligning their own values with the organization’s values.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

Collaboration Make sure your team knows that you have their (and the organization’s) best interest at heart. Focus When you come blazing into a new-to-you organization with tons of great ideas, focus is key. Implementing new ideas takes work, time, and energy. Worry more about the idea, than who get’s the credit.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. People will stop honoring or identifying with the organization. How do leaders build effective cultures?

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Dots and Bridges

AUGUST 22, 2021

It is the cars we drive, the energy we consume, the water we drink, the food we eat. David Manz , Cybersecurity Group Leader and Principal Cyber Security Scientist within the National Security Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Pete Tseronis as they address the world’s energy future. Date: September 9, 2021.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

I want them to have experiences that will lead them to achieve their goals: increased sales, better performance, healthy growth, stronger culture and ultimately a better organization. It is extremely difficult for Executives to sustain impacting change on an organization without a good no. 2 by their side.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Which of our projects/efforts/contributions was most impactful to the organization? This is a great way to help your team consider how their work aligns with your organization’s strategic priorities. Which areas of your performance have most improved? And how do we get more of that next year? What new skills did you learn?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

AI-enabled services and powerful scalability options are among the benefits being leveraged by organizations as they drive digital transformation projects. trillion by 2025 , and by 2027, experts predict that cloud adoption will have become mainstream , with nearly 90% of organizations implementing some degree of cloud strategy.

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