CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

The point is not to slow down teams, but to have ongoing, quick governance,” she says. CIO hesitance to delegate—particularly when it comes to financial decisions—often stems from fear of failure from bad decisions and loss of control. Giving teams the autonomy to come together to make cross-domain decisions is hugely important.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The ‘broken rung’ has long restricted women from achieving managerial positions in IT, and the latest joint LeanIn.org and McKinsey Women in the Workplace report finds underrepresentation in leadership roles is still a problem, and more so for women of color. Very often when there’s a woman in leadership, she is the only female,” she says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. Develop a structured service catalog and adapt Achieving service delivery excellence is not a one-size-fits-all process.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Importance of Executive Coaching in Leadership Development Executive coaching is pivotal in developing leaders, allowing them to unlock their full potential and drive organizational success. In their high-pressure roles, executives often lack opportunities to discuss their challenges, fears, and aspirations openly.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. million by 2030. based tech companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The two met while studying at Harvard and were both a part of the leadership team at QuantCo, a company building AI-powered apps for enterprise customers. Taktile would let the head of credit at the bank back-test the change and analyze its impact before actually implementing it.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Amir Kazmi is a savvy business leader whose leadership playbook has been shaped by the fact that he’s spent one third of his career in P&L roles. On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , Kazmi unpacked his unique leadership journey, his approach to leading digital innovation, and how he brings out the best in his team.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short — and most revolve around leadership. IT leaders must work with business leadership to help establish a clear understanding of digital transformation goals and a practical roadmap for achieving them.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As other recent technology waves have taught us, developments will simply come too fast for such an approach and will be driven by the speed of private industry. It is a very powerful technology, and while it is not inherently good or bad, given its sheer power, guardrails must be put into place. AI must be regulated.

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CIO

AUGUST 23, 2023

Optimization problems, for which a whole chorus of variables must be fine-tuned and modulated, routinely plague financial firms, especially when it comes to highly engineered financial products such as those developed through quantitative analysis. Their work earned them a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Harnessing Executive Leadership Team Coaching for Competitive Edge In a business world where the only constant is change, nurturing robust leadership has transcended from being merely advantageous to utterly essential.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times. What is VUCA Leadership? If businesses are to get through difficult experiences, strong leadership is essential.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2024

We did side-by-side testing,” he says. So based on early results, the three functional areas where companies see the biggest productivity improvements are in customer service, software development, and general creative and knowledge work. Much of this improvement was concentrated in junior staff, he adds. “AI

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

The ability to pivot fast and hyperfocus are strengths, not weaknesses, and a leader that can do both effectively is an asset, not a liability. Shaping leadership One of the most important steps for living with neurodiversity is to fully understand how it impacts your life and what coping tools you can use to excel.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Every leader and every team should use rate of change to determine how quickly they can turn around a particular change, Avila recommends. Here they are.

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CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

It’s bad news for us because we aspire to have repeat customers, and it’s bad news for our customers because they just waste money servicing an inactive or idle card.” These third parties either complement Travelex’s internal tech team, or they’re brought in to do things for us we can’t do ourselves,” he says.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 26, 2024

Imagine me coming from the corporate world, 26 years in business, and I was in the process of acquiring a boutique Learning & Development company. Before, when I was leading teams of up to 3500 people over 32 countries, I never had time to connect with people one-on-one.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For understanding teams “CTOs and CIOs who work for organizations that are struggling to deliver value sustainably will greatly benefit from reading Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019) by Manuel Pais and Matt Skelton,” says Peter Kreslins Jr.,

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. So there will be some legacy in combination with new solutions that have been tested in other factories first.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Our September Festival is all about Bold and Innovative Leadership. Self Leadership . No one has the words “Bold” or “Innovative” printed on their business cards; but Bill Benoist of Leadership Heart Coaching shares that when you look, these leaders are all around us. Team Development .

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2024

And there we look at what we buy and develop ourselves.” The starting point is to buy products where you can, and develop parts internally where they’re not available on the market. Data platform in place Central to all of these initiatives succeeding is the quality of data Hellberg and his team can access and utilize.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As a connected car data company focusing on the motor insurance sector, UK-based ThingCo is dedicated to developing next gen telematics built with the latest technology. It’s good to see and it’s going to change the way we work and make our life easier, but I don’t think it’ll get rid of engineers or developers” he says. “I

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Bad actors have the potential to train AI to spot and exploit vulnerabilities in tech stacks or business systems. As we deploy our guardrails, we also evangelize across teams at Discover through our internal learning platform, Discover Technology Academy, through various events and emails and required security training.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. But once they take the helm, what distinguishes good from bad leaders is not whether they have the answers, but how often they ask questions. People get promoted for having good answers.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Low team morale Alan Clark, senior vice president of strategy at staffing agency Randstad USA, says a low-energy team that’s missing deadlines is a sign that an IT manager isn’t clearly communicating to their team or to management. This will allow the middle manager to start to regain momentum and reengage with their team.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

Technology specialist Salesforce reports that more than two-thirds of service professionals believe gen AI will help them serve their customers better, while Forrester expects it to give CX teams a huge boost through 2024. The companies analyzed 5,000 crunching sounds over six months and created an app that gamers download to cancel it out.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To prepare for this worst-case scenario, Mastercard launched its Quantum Security and Communications project, which earned the company a 2023 US CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership. Mastercard’s Maddaloni reports that the team tested the quantum key distribution solution over a dark fiber network.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. This team establishes the company’s risk tolerance, acceptable use cases and restrictions, and applicable disclosures.

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OverOps

AUGUST 19, 2019

It tests not only your fundamentals, but your ability to react to different, unexpected situations. These include common developer errors which are often found by “Code Peer Reviews”. In which stage of the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) can we use Static code analysis? Limitations. Any other name returns “Joey”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2021

Now imagine a group of creatures, dripping, stinking, and standing on the bank, male, female, big and small – about seven give or take and you have what company leadership groups look like as they emerge from the pandemic and take their first steps in dealing with the new reality. It has been tough for many organizational leadership teams.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

However, the measure of success has been historically at odds with the number of projects said to be overrunning or underperforming, as Panorama has noted that organizations have lowered their standards of success. While we weren’t naïve to the risk of disruption to the business, the extent and magnitude was greater than we anticipated.”

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2023

The project, which earned Proctor & Gamble a 2023 CIO 100 Award for IT innovation and leadership, has had a profoundly material impact on the manufacturing floor. The resulting platform was pilot tested for nine months at one P&G plant before being rolled out half of P&G’s Pampers manufacturing plants across the US.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Great leadership lessons are the ones that stand the test of time because they become a part of who you are, and how you lead, every hour of every day. But 10 of them have been, and remain, my favorite leadership lessons – the ones that have “stuck” with me and are now a part of my daily practice. and 1,028 posts.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2023

Moving forward, leaders need to include “more presence monitoring and prediction so when people do come to the office they can meet with teams in person,’’ she says. Smith’s IT team is always looking for tools to help the university’s employees be asynchronous, he adds, given that they now have employees in more time zones.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Coaching is a collaborative process focused on individual development and improvement. Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions.

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