CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts. Business awareness is a vital aspect of IT leadership today.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

In this ever-evolving landscape, understanding the evolution of the IT industry becomes crucial for organizations and professionals alike. As a result, tech leaders must stay up-to-date with the latest trends, strategies, and emerging technologies to remain relevant and competitive while driving their organizations forward.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 12, 2021

When strategic planning, a SWOT helps you define your business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. For strengths and weaknesses, those are typically within your own organization, capabilities you have or don’t have. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO thinks beyond technical needs and considers the needs of the organization from a strategic business perspective.” Fractional, or contract, CIOs are becoming an important and increasingly relied on niche in the IT executive job market. What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs?

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

The best weapon to make decisions in a dynamic world is accurate and relevant information so organizations can carry out strategic plans in the most reliable way. But to get to this point, the organization has had to rely on technology for decades as a strategic tool.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Digital technology has become a guiding light in these uncertain times, taking on a more prominent role in companies’ strategic plans. Technology, therefore, is not merely a convenient tool but an essential commodity that requires strategic allocation and management in the modern business landscape.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. These are factors I’ve learned that define whether an organization can improve their Culture or not. No surprise that all six values rise and fall on leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

The Chief Operations Officer acts as a bridge between the company’s strategic vision and operational execution, making key decisions, formulating strategies, solving problems, and driving operational excellence. The role of a COO is crucial in ensuring the overall success of any organization.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer In the complex world of corporate leadership, a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) holds a pivotal role. This position is often seen as the linchpin of a company’s commercial strategy, controlling marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to achieve optimal success.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Karl Mattson, field CISO at Noname Security, an API security solution, says APIs are the foundation of nearly every CIO’s strategic plans to deliver business value. Good governance is the telemetry on that investment, from which operational and tactical plans can be adjusted and focused to achieve strategic objectives,” he says.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

But on the other hand, AI and generative AI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm Insight. “It It felt like a rat race to keep up,” Downing says.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic world of business, leadership feedback stands as a cornerstone for team excellence and organizational growth. This guide delves into inspiring examples of leadership feedback, each tailored to nurture high-performing teams. What is Leadership Feedback? When is Leadership Feedback Usually Delivered?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Through focused conversations, targeted assessments, and personalized strategies, executive coaching helps entrepreneurs identify their blind spots, enhance their leadership skills, and make informed decisions that align with their vision and goals. One of the primary challenges entrepreneurs face is the need to wear multiple hats.

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CO2 Business Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Navigating the complexities of the corporate world requires more than just a sharp business acumen; it calls for guidance, insight, and strategic foresight. This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company. What is Business Coaching?

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. And that is the rub. It’s large-scale thinking.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As a trusted advisor and expert in leadership development, I have witnessed first-hand how these services have transformed organizations into powerhouses of success. Instead, organizations recognize the importance of a holistic approach incorporating key principles and strategies to achieve sustainable success.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Today’s COO wears many hats and is instrumental in executing corporate strategy, fostering innovation, driving technological integration, and steering the company toward its goals with insightful leadership. Thus, empathy and inclusive leadership have emerged as indispensable traits in the modern COO’s repertoire.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2023

IT is not viewed to be as important as Sales, Finance, Manufacturing, Operations, or Marketing — dangerous in a highly competitive environment where efficient or innovative systems can spell the difference between the corporation’s success or failure. My book The 9 1/2 Secrets of a Great IT Organization has the subtitle “Don’t Do IT Yourself.”

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Modern CTO

MARCH 25, 2024

He also touches on the unique challenges and innovations in digital influencer marketing. For booking inquiries, email booking@proseriesmedia.com About Jim Harris Jim Harris is one of North America’s foremost management consultants, public speakers, authors and thinkers on change and leadership. His most recent book, Blindsided!

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Navigating uncertainty Like many IT leaders, Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, believes ongoing lack of economic clarity on a wide scale, paired with instability in the tech market, will create new challenges for 2024. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Episode 239: Antonella Pisani, the CEO and founder of Eyeful Media , a digital marketing and consulting firm, joins host David Dye, and discusses the importance of culture, values, and remote culture in leadership. She emphasizes hiring experienced talent and creating an intellectually stimulating environment.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

But with strategic planning and effective communication, we managed to continue advancing in our digital transformation process,” says Alet. In the coming years, the group’s main challenge is to continue increasing efficiency and control in all areas of the organization, while maintaining the objective of being a data-driven company.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

I like thinking about how to stabilize, secure, and scale the organization at a foundational level, to really implement innovation,” she says, noting that her perspective made her a better fit for the CIO position rather than a CTO role with its focus on products. The women will naturally surface from there.”

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Ideally, everyone who works for a company would act as an ambassador for that organization to the public at large. I first started thinking about this when I helped run a leadership development program for country general managers of a global company. She, too, is now the ambassador for her company in that market.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Moreover, attracting these individuals to a particular organization requires not only competitive compensation packages but also a compelling company culture and opportunities for career advancement. Building a talent pipeline requires strategic planning and implementation of effective strategies that resonate with legal professionals.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. Yet, when carried out adeptly, it results in holistic and sustainable marketing strategies.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 5, 2021

Identify your organization’s major threats and opportunities by assessing these five aspects of your market. As you begin your strategic planning process, it’s important to assess the market you’re competing in. How are they distributed by market share? How do they behave?

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

With headquarters in Winnipeg and a total of nearly 11,000 employees worldwide, Canada Life prides itself on being a technology-first organization, but equally people-centric. There are a lot of great growth opportunities in our organization. On being a technology-first organization: It’s pivotal to stay competitive.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

Some organizations have yet to fully recover. This has had a ripple effect through the market.”. Non-profit organizations such as Canada’s Salvation Army can’t afford the kind of infrastructure used by Peavey Mart. Check your suppliers’ backup plans. Disaster Recovery, Internet Service Providers, IT Leadership

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Perficient

AUGUST 21, 2023

Gaining operational excellence through Corporate Performance Management (CPM) involves a strategic approach to managing and optimizing various aspects of your organization’s performance. Select CPM Tools Choose the right CPM tools that align with your organization’s needs and goals. These objectives should be SMART.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Identifying the Need for Change : The need for change exists in every organization. Senior leadership must champion any new initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. All organizations must face major transformations while working to advance in their industry. This is where the CTO role gets into the spotlight.

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Perficient

MAY 8, 2023

CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, annually honors influential women in technology for their thought leadership, strategic contributions, and commitment to fostering growth in the industry. Liza currently leads a team of approximately 30 colleagues focused on alliance management, partner marketing, and partner programs support. “We

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. If they also manage the development team, they will solely represent engineering in the senior leadership team. They talk to investors and potential partners and meet with potential vendors.

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