N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Digital Frontier’s Impact on Leadership Needs The rapid advancement of technology has created a landscape marked by constant change and disruption. Organizations must remain agile and forward-thinking to keep pace. Technical proficiency is fundamental, but it’s just the starting point.

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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These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery.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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

Assessments have emerged as an indispensable instrument in leadership development, serving as both a mirror that reveals areas of growth and a lens that illuminates hidden potential. Our work at N2Growth reveals that executives who embrace consistent, candid feedback see a marked improvement in their leadership trajectory.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The shifting leadership landscape In a fast-paced, tech-driven world, business strategy and technology are more intertwined than ever. As digital weighs in as the center of gravity, one thing is clear: traditional leadership structures may no longer be enough to maintain a competitive edge. On a bad day, we get CrowdStrike…or worse.

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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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Agile Alliance

MARCH 9, 2022

With more than 17,000 team members and a culture of being obsessed with finding a better way, the leadership team at Quicken … Continued. The post How Rocket Mortgage Used Scaled Agile and Scrum to Dominate the Mortgage Industry first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Their leadership is crucial in ensuring the organization remains agile and responsive in an era of constant technological change. Driving innovation involves fostering a culture of experimentation and agility, embracing new ideas that can propel the business forward.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Techniculture is where technology, business, and culture collide,” says Nester, explaining his remodeling plan for IT. With so much at stake, CIOs are actively investing in people and processes to shift culture away from reactive order-taking.

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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 19, 2024

The best way to ensure alignment is to make IT leadership an active part of organizational leadership.” A key way to facilitate alignment is to become agile enough to stay ahead of the curve, and be adaptive to change, Bragg advises. Having a seat at the strategy table helps IT push the business forward. “It

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CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Youre losing sight of the overall aim and not respecting employee concerns Instead of viewing change management as a set of static processes, leverage it as a dynamic capability that fosters agility and resilience. Such individuals need to be inspired, encouraged, and supported by leadership, he advises.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of leadership, how we assess and cultivate leadership qualities is undergoing enormous transformation. We delved into the quickly changing environment of leadership and the critical need for organizations to adapt their strategies to keep pace with shifting sands. What values drive them?

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These principles directly influence the organization’s culture and strategic moves. By staying ahead of market trends, the organization remains agile, adaptable, and ready to outperform rivals. This process includes establishing core principles such as agility, scalability, security, and customer centricity.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

At N2Growth, we recognize that the Chief Operating Officer is indispensable to the executive leadership team. This executive’s effectiveness hinges on fostering synergy among all C-suite leaders , creating a culture of shared purpose.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

FinOps initiatives often prioritize implementing cost-management tools over cultivating a culture of accountability and collaboration, which is essential for lasting change. For the same reasons we all separate our recycling from our trash, engineers, particularly Millennials and Gen-Z, buy into the cultural transformation of GreenOps.

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Agile Alliance

JUNE 1, 2023

This experience report illustrates my story about how I could help leaders from my organization – Cognizant Technology Solutions to transform from a power to an empowerment-based leadership style using the 5 dimensions of transformational leadership which are vision, culture, values, collaboration, and enablement.

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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. Our legacy culture was focused on continuous improvements to processes and reducing costs.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

During COVID-19, the organization immediately moved from desktop-based work to remote & mobile- based setup, a difficult shift entirely done under the leadership of CIO. 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 13, 2025

Technology investments, such as in generative AI, are a priority in addressing the need to meet rising expectations while also driving operational agility and resilience. They achieved these results through a culture that embraces change and a strong digital foundation, he says.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Today, organizations face multifaceted challenges that demand agile and decisive leadership. The increasing demand for interim executives reflects a broader shift toward flexible leadership models. Working collaboratively with existing teams, they foster a culture of change that is both inclusive and performance-driven.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Here, they and others share seven ways to create and nurture a culture of innovation. Company leadership also creates space and time for employees to innovate by dedicating a team of people to explore emerging technologies, run experiments, and identify business applicability, Crowe says. “For Prioritize time for experimentation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What is transformational leadership? The transformational leadership approach encourages, inspires, and motivates employees to innovate and create the change necessary to shape the future success of the company. For the latest insights on leadership, sign up for our newsletters. ]. . | Transformational leadership theory.

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CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Unlike tech leaders pushing forward with transformational characteristics, these CIOs often do not see the value of manifesting growth and market leadership, Arnold says. It wasn’t easy — there was cultural resistance, outdated processes, and limited resources.” Tampa General’s Arnold points to the softer side of the equation.

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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. To make sure we are comparing apples to apples we used Agile story point to identify comparable features. Time to market. Developer productivity.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Organizations, particularly startups, require changes in executive leadership talent in the business lifecycle to capitalize on growth potential. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team. First, learning agility.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Working on long-term milestones while balancing everyday obstacles, embracing the learning curve while becoming a sought-after business leader, and changing long-held perceptions, Indias women CIOs are writing a new chapter in multifaceted leadership. Namrita prioritizes agility as a virtue. Saloni Vijay sums it up aptly.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

Veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisors share the changes they’re seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership and the old ones they’ve replaced. They also have to invest in the technologies that enable agility and change, such as cloud computing. Basically, a heavy hand on the steering wheel of the operations,” he says.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Importance of CIO Leadership in the Modern Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, digital leadership has emerged as a critical factor for success. To start, it is essential to clearly define the specific traits and skills required for effective digital leadership within your organization.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 22, 2023

This year, the conference took place virtually on the vFairs conference platform, attracting over 350 registrations from Agile enthusiasts, speakers, and volunteers from around the world. The primary purpose of AgileNCR is to foster a culture of knowledge-sharing and learning within the community.

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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. Nutanix’s growth mindset and openness to change have influenced my leadership. My involvement in Nutanix committees helped instill a culture of security, privacy, and responsible practices.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

Moving to product-based delivery is a significant cultural change. This requires new competencies and approaches: The transformation of architecture leadership Shawn McCarthy Key mindset shifts in practice 1. Enterprise architects must shift their focus to business enablement. From control to enablement Shawn McCarthy 2.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2025

For CIOs and CTOs, the challenge now is less about proving the value of AI, and more about architecting the culture, capabilities and systems that allow it to scale responsibly. Food is cultural. His thought leadership has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Stock Exchange, Reuters and NBC News. Its emotional.

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