Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

Common scaling challenges include: Operational inefficiencies Inconsistent product quality Difficulty maintaining company culture Cash flow management problems Talent acquisition and retention issues A structured framework provides the roadmap needed to successfully navigate these challenges. Discover how to maintain agility while scaling 4.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

These leaders are essential for driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge. Organizations must remain agile and forward-thinking to keep pace. Agile decision-making allows them to respond swiftly to challenges and pursue innovative solutions.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A shift has occurred and IT is now viewed as an equal partner in driving business growth with CIOs recognized as the de facto leaders of innovation. Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Prioritize time for experimentation. Mike Crowe, CIO, Colgate-Palmolive. Colgate-Palmolive.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. We take a use-case focus to innovation, so we’re not implementing a digital twin here or some IoT there.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. The compay fostered a culture of innovation by involving employees in the modernization process and addressing their concerns. This leads to an old consulting joke.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as a global hub for technology and innovation. With adversaries constantly innovating and refining their tactics, organizations must remain vigilant and agile in their approach to cybersecurity.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

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Perficient

OCTOBER 25, 2024

It’s not just a technological advancement; it’s a paradigm shift that’s democratizing innovation across industries. Increased efficiency, better decision-making, and a newfound passion for innovation. This speed doesn’t just save time; it fosters a culture of innovation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

On a good day, this disconnect can lead to missed opportunities, slower decision-making and limited innovation. They are instrumental in navigating the complex intersection of technology and business, driving innovation, and accelerating decision-making in ways traditional leadership roles have struggled to do.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These roles, while distinct, are increasingly interwoven, and their synergy can unlock unprecedented opportunities for growth and innovation. This role involves integrating cutting-edge technologies, optimizing digital platforms, and fostering innovation to enhance operational efficiency and customer value.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

This lean, agile model has been extremely successful over the past two decades — launching thousands of successful startups, some of which have grown into billion-dollar companies. AI is the future of business, but we can’t lose sight of the need for compassion and the human element in innovation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Techniculture is where technology, business, and culture collide,” says Nester, explaining his remodeling plan for IT. We’ve broken up a large entity that required people to wait in line and put delivery people working on applications, business process improvement, and fintech innovation back in the hands of the business.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

CIOs now list innovation as the most important trait they need to bring to their role, according to a 2024 survey by professional services firm Deloitte — ahead of delivering top-line value and serving as change agents, two endeavors that require innovation to facilitate.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A key way to facilitate alignment is to become agile enough to stay ahead of the curve, and be adaptive to change, Bragg advises. IT leaders also need to be agile enough to drive and support change, communicate effectively, and be transparent about current projects and initiatives.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Upskilling programs and focusing on the employee experience are also crucial for businesses looking to hold onto talent and drive innovative transformations, and recruitment for tech talent is much more effective when IT leaders are actively involved in the process. You have to be innovative,” adds Balbo. million compared to about 3.6

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This alignment ensures that technology investments and projects directly contribute to achieving business goals, such as market expansion, product innovation, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and financial performance. These principles directly influence the organization’s culture and strategic moves.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Are you looking to build a winning IT culture? Foster adaptability and flexibility Adaptable work environments and agile methodologies form the bedrock of a thriving IT culture, says Charman Hayes, executive vice president of people and capability for the technology group at Mastercard. Projects that really excite our teams.”

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

This ensures that our technology roadmap is fully aligned with our overarching business objectives and fosters a continuous cycle of innovation and efficiency. He adds, I cultivate a culture of innovation and healthy competition, ensuring that both business and technology teams remain motivated to achieve shared goals.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

This means creating environments that enable innovation while ensuring system integrity and sustainability. This is the promise of modern enterprise architecture providing higher-level building blocks that enable innovation and rapid business reconfiguration while maintaining system integrity.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. To succeed, they must first build a culture of development within the organization.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For organizations seeking productivity and innovation gains, a best practice is to prioritize use cases based on value, feasibility, and breadth. Next, explore potential new workflows or processes that genAI can create to improve productivity, increase innovation, and/or provide competitive differentiation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This executive’s effectiveness hinges on fostering synergy among all C-suite leaders , creating a culture of shared purpose. In many organizations, this role is instrumental in spearheading transformational initiatives, optimizing resource allocation, and enhancing overall organizational agility.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This surge is driven by the rapid expansion of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, both of which are reshaping industries and enabling unprecedented scalability and innovation. Cultural shift. Architects must combine functional requirements with multiple other long-term requirements to build sustainable systems.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver more digital innovations faster and more efficiently. Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

CIOs and their AI hesitation However, achieving this shift requires cultural alignment and a willingness to rethink processes from the ground up, making automation an intimidating prospect. Failing to tap into its potential keeps IT teams trapped in maintenance mode instead of innovation mode. Why the hold-up?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Teams must now demonstrate the ability to grow, adapt, and cultivate a culture aligned with their company’s vision and strategy. Leadership teams are now evaluated not only on qualities like passion and teamwork but also on traits like resilience, learning agility, and adaptability.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Cisco also identified considerable gaps affecting genAI’s potential across six foundational business pillars — 1) strategy, 2) infrastructure, 3) data, 4) governance, 5) talent, and 6) culture — the key building blocks of any business. To grow and thrive in an era of AI, businesses need both automation and augmentation.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

With emerging technologies like Gen-AI keeping organizations in a flurry of new implementations, a rapidly shifting CIO role, new innovations testing budgets and adaptability of organizations and increasing competition, a competent CIO is the ace that can change the game.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The transformational leadership approach encourages, inspires, and motivates employees to innovate and create the change necessary to shape the future success of the company. It’s applicable across every industry, but it’s especially vital to the fast-paced tech industry where innovation and agility can make or break a company.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The role now requires agility to embrace and lead with emerging technologies, ensuring IT strategies are in lockstep with broader business goals. Here leveraging unique strengths to their fullest is appreciated and expected, shaping a dynamic and forward-thinking approach to leadership and innovation. Learn more about Nutanix.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explained The Scaled Agile Framework encompasses a set of principles, processes, and best practices that helps larger organizations adopt agile methodologies , such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum , to deliver high-quality products and services faster.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The latter option had emerged as a compelling solution, offering the promise of enhanced agility, reduced operational costs, and seamless scalability. Maintaining and upgrading outdated systems can be resource-intensive and hinder innovation. Legacy infrastructure. Architecture complexity. Vendor lock-in. Time to market.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Today, organizations face multifaceted challenges that demand agile and decisive leadership. Interim Executives Embedded in Leadership Solutions Interim executives’ agility and expertise make them invaluable during times of transition or uncertainty.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Along comes Duro and the $4 million the company just raised, in an attempt to bring some agile methodology sanity to a final-bill-of-materials.top-assembly.final.final.final.final.no-really-final-this-time.xls “To simplify things a little, the hardware industry is dominated by a bimodal culture. really-final-this-time.xls world.

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CIO

MAY 1, 2023

Technology innovation is happening at breakneck speed, creating new opportunities and threats for companies of all sizes and industries. In this new reality where a bank can go under in two weeks, and new innovations are fundamentally changing our ways of life (e.g., Strong knowledge of open source technologies.

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