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How Palladium targets tech to better serve the business

CIO

The result was what is now the Palladium Hotel Group, a hotel chain with 10 different brands spread across Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. We’ll also continue to work on managing cultural change and the shortage of professionals with training and skills, in order to achieve the objectives set.”

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CIOs set their agendas to achieve IT’s ultimate balancing act

CIO

What helps Mate and his team achieve the push-and-pull of digitizing while maintaining quality service is Elara’s culture, which encourages employees to experiment — but make decisions quickly and fail fast when projects are not panning out — as well as investing in people who can bring new ideas and perspectives.

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CIOs Discuss how to Enhance the Digital Experience Across the Business

CIO

Both customer and employee experience have seen an accelerated transformation with the introduction of cloud technologies, were significantly affected by the pandemic, and now see a remarkable shift in terms of new approaches in leadership. He will explore how to rethink hybrid work and investigate resilience in leadership.

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10 Leadership Lessons from 10 Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

The theme was the “School of Hard Knocks” – apt because the event was held in Portland’s cool and unique Kennedy School hotel and event center. While there was a wide diversity in business type, there was a real commonality in the lessons these entrepreneurs shared - the “hard knocks” leadership lessons.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO

And while their staffs are more distributed than ever, these leaders are committed to making positive changes in workplace culture, including diversifying their workforce, and creating a post-pandemic work dynamic that enables their colleagues to connect with one another across distances to do their best work.

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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. You need a leadership team that is supportive, and a board that will back them up. At Vuori, everything is in the cloud.

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Daily Crunch: Shark Tank India host Ashneer Grover tries to get his BharatPe CEO fired

TechCrunch

Drama at BharatPe : The Tiger-backed Indian fintech company is seeing turmoil in its leadership, with co-founder and managing director Ashneer Grover asking its board “for the removal of chief executive Suhail Sameer” from the leadership group at the company. Today, those convention centers and hotel ballrooms are dark and quiet.

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