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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them.

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Building a Digital-First Culture: The Chief Digital Officer’s Blueprint

N2Growth Blog

The CDO’s mandate extends beyond mere technology implementation; it encompasses the development of comprehensive digital strategies and the cultivation of a culture that embraces continuous innovation. This includes fostering a culture that values innovation and agility. Prioritizing customer experience is crucial.

Culture 161
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Practicing Business Agility with the Agile Kata

Agile Alliance

The Agile Kata is an Agile approach to an Agile transformation that nurtures and fosters an Agile culture throughout the transformation process. The post Practicing Business Agility with the Agile Kata first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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A blueprint for successfully executing business-aligned IT strategies

CIO

Regardless of whether or not Peter Drucker actually said , “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” the sentiment still is particularly relevant in IT, where the constructive collaboration between business goals and technology initiatives often determines organizational success.

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All Method, No Madness: Guiding Agile Teams Through Research

Speaker: Amanda Stockwell, President of Stockwell Strategy

Many Product Managers feel quality user research can't keep up with the fast-paced culture of agile teams. However, if you're willing to adapt the right way, you don't have to sacrifice agility or user insights. Using the right strategy, your agile team will collect qualitative data, interpret it, and integrate it effectively.

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Nurturing Agile organizational success through Caring Leadership

Agile Alliance

Caring Leadership® is the cornerstone of Agile organizational success, fostering a culture of empathy, collaboration, and innovation to inspire teams and drive sustainable growth and resilience. The post Nurturing Agile organizational success through Caring Leadership first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Emotional culture – what is it and how to co-create it?

Agile Alliance

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast." But what is culture and how can we shape it? Let's explore why emotional culture matters to building a more high performing and connected team in a more human and empathetic way. The post Emotional culture – what is it and how to co-create it? first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll explore the challenges, solutions, and hands-on techniques for becoming a successful "agent of change" within a well-established product culture. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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Skyscanner's Journey to a "Continuous Improvement" Team Culture

Speaker: Ramsay Ashby

They shared what originally took them down this path, including the signs that change was needed and the impact it has had.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. In this fast paced talk, he will cover: How to decompose for agility. The "two pizza" team culture. Keys to automation at different stages of organization maturity.

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How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Topics will include: Cultivating Operational Agility: Leadership, Culture, and How New Tech Like Headless, Composable/MACH and Low Code Change the Game. Today’s teams need to operate cohesively like never before, managing the pace of both technological change and customer needs and demands.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant as he discusses how to pivot to a customer-first culture through planning and execution. With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand the role of our developers to champion usability and customer delight? Revitalize QA as champions.