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What most CIOs get wrong about strategic IT plans

CIO

It’s because any Martian business will enjoy an insurmountable advantage: With a 687 earth-days long year, Martian enterprises will go through about half the number of budgeting cycles their terrestrial competitors do. But customer-centricity isn’t always the right lead story. But it wasn’t, I insisted, our plan.

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12 ‘best practices’ IT should avoid at all costs

CIO

From establishing internal customers to instituting charge-backs to insisting on ROI, a lot of this advice looks plausible when viewed from 50,000 feet or more. They’re IT’s colleagues, with whom IT collaborates as equals if anything good is going to happen for the company as a whole. What makes IT organizations fail?

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How to kick-start your generative AI strategy

CIO

To identify opportunities and determine the potential ROI for generative AI applications, McAfee advises that business leaders consider these four basic steps. So says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Someone who is a new coder can start to be productive pretty easily,” says McAfee.

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Leaders Coaching Leaders: One Secret to Sustainable Leadership Development

Let's Grow Leaders

You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. Imagine they were to kick off the training with a powerful story, then stay and engage with the team? Leaders coach, and reinforce, the skills they’re learning.

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4 CIOs on marketing IT’s value to the business

CIO

We may hope that the work speaks for itself, but the reality is, IT leaders must communicate IT’s accomplishments in a way that people can understand why and how it matters to them. Messaging matters Not many IT people jump out of bed and say to themselves, “I cannot wait to go market technology today.” The big takeaway?

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Okendo wants to turn your shoppers into buyers through better customer reviews

TechCrunch

Those merchants can then showcase the ratings and reviews on their website or on social media to tell more personalized marketing stories. The new funding will enable Okendo to accelerate its go-to-market and product development, which includes some releases lined up for the end of 2022. It gives the company $33.5

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CEO Report: Maximizing Impact and Future-Proofing Your Business in an Ever-Changing World

Robots and Pencils

By Tracey Zimmerman, President & CEO, Robots & Pencils As CEO at Robots & Pencils , I have the amazing privilege of supporting leaders on everything from bringing game-changing new ideas to market to optimizing products and services that have been at the heart of companies for decades. We’ll get into this more in coming blogs!)