N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Role of Board Advisor Coaching in Shaping Success Board advisor coaching plays a critical role in shaping the success of organizations and their leaders. In today’s complex and rapidly changing business landscape, executives need more than technical expertise to thrive.

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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. Namrita prioritizes agility as a virtue.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2024

Interestingly, despite the significance of technical debt as a cost concern and an inhibitor to improving security and implementing innovation (like AI), it ranks much lower on the list of immediate priorities for many organizations (20%). For CIOs, balancing technical debt with other strategic priorities is a constant challenge.

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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.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Strike a balance between innovation and operational excellence In an era of creative disruption, Orla Daly, CIO at business and technical skills training firm Skillsoft, believes that IT leaders in 2024 should concentrate on achieving balance among their myriad initiatives, favoring innovation and “keep the lights on” work in turn.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

But 2023 is shaping up to be paradoxical, and after speaking to hundreds of CIOs over the past couple of years, I have been advising them to seek force multipliers in their digital transformation initiatives. Today, many CIOs must determine which agile tools to use and where to create practice standards.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Tech debt is boring Company boards and CEOs are putting pressure on CIOs to find innovative uses for AI, and the need for better cybersecurity never goes way.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2024

Adopting an agile mindset For large enterprises to work successfully with startups in piloting new technologies, Gupta says they need to rethink company processes. In contrast, Gupta says that CIOs and their teams must be highly agile and collaborative with startups. Gupta advises enterprises to go with one of two approaches.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Now, the CIO is more likely to be known as the chief innovation officer, responsible for driving digital transformation within the organization.” Inflexibility In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations need a leader who’s both agile and comfortable with change. “If Walker, a business consultant and coach.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Today, technology must be perceived as a business partner and an innovation agent,” Tweedie says. “IT Advise and collaborate. Then collaborate to develop an action plan,” advises Suneet Dua, products and technology chief growth officer at business advisory firm PwC. What are their department’s goals? What do they care about?

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But it isn’t always easy for some teams, especially those in the highly technical roles, such as developers. In instances like this, however, it is advised that employees put their milestones as their key results. OKRs become vague when you cannot associate them with a numerical value.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

These individuals, possessing extraordinary talents, help their teams reach new levels of innovation, planning, productivity, and efficiency. Agility is embedded in a person’s DNA and doesn’t change, Schwarz claims. Look for leaders who have created systems within their business units to address some of their IT needs, Peavy advises.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

When asked which challenges most often force IT to redirect time and focus away from strategy and innovation tasks, CIOs most commonly cited staff and skills shortages, changing business conditions, and addressing security threats. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps. 1 challenge listed.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Managing innovation and growth in a fluid environment is one of the biggest challenges for companies. The challenge of uncertainty is because companies rely a lot on a planning-oriented process to manage innovation, growth, and new digital initiatives. How can enterprises attain these in the face of uncertainty?

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.

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CIO

MARCH 30, 2023

With digital technology increasingly vital to business, the CIO role is quickly evolving, placing IT leaders under threat from business executives who offer the blend of business and technical savvy necessary to lead transformational strategies in the future. Here IT is taking an advisory role and LOBs are taking the lead.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Yet, as any IT leader knows, when technical infrastructure fails to meet enterprise needs, hampering productivity and innovation, it’s often time to rebuild from scratch. Everyone will need time to adjust,” she advises. “Be Critical attributes, such as innovation, initiative, and transformation, are either absent or rarely seen.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2023

Amanda Merola had zero technical background when she came to The Hartford in 2015, despite a natural interest in computers and a proclivity for problem-solving. You used to be able to buy people or rely on the education system to pull people through so there was a ready supply of trained technical people.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

“Forty-four percent say the ability to accelerate the delivery of new software and applications is a benefit — the lowest percentage of any region.” Some West African countries, such as Benin, understand that low-code/no-code tools are innovative and disruptive to the CIO community, but not universally trusted.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud software engineer Cloud software engineers are tasked with developing and maintaining software applications that run on cloud platforms, ensuring they are built to be scalable, reliable, and agile. These pros are experts in the cloud and stay on top of the latest innovations in cloud technology to better advise business leaders.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

He advises companies to establish core values for the company before situations arise so that leaders can reference them when deciding whether and how to respond to these political and social issues. “I Internal skills marketplaces are emerging as a means for retaining tech workers while also meeting demands for agile digital environments.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

He earned the confidence of his executive colleagues by delivering successes, which in turn helps him get their support for innovative ideas. To do that, Saccal has his staffers articulate the business value of their tasks during agile rituals, such as the daily scrum. She views IT’s agenda and the business agenda as one and the same.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says. The solution lies in making those teams understand they’re getting involved in innovation, not just a cost-cutting exercise.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 10, 2019

This may prove to be a challenge for some teams, especially those that perform highly technical jobs, such as software developers. To beat this challenge, it is advisable that employees put their milestones as their key results. One of the main features of Objectives and Key Results is that they are measurable.

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CIO

AUGUST 17, 2023

In many ways, it hearkens back to another disruptive innovation that not only changed everything but spawned entirely new industries: the automobile. Anna Ransley, a CD&IO known for her work at Godiva and Heineken, among others, has been advising boards and C-suites about generative AI strategy, risks, and opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

That’s the level of foresight firms need if they’re to remain competitive in a landscape that rewards agility and innovation. While technical competence is a given, what really sets great leaders apart is their ability to connect legal strategy with broader business objectives. What Defines a Top-Tier Legal Leader?

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

Micro transformations are a strategic approach to digital evolution, enabling IT leaders to innovate without disrupting business continuity. Technical College System of Georgia, which comprises 22 colleges and 88 campuses, and serves 350,000 individuals, needed to modernize systems to adapt to customer expectations, says Steven Ferguson, CIO.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Delivering for growth Today, McCullen is creating new technical foundations to ensure that adaptability, and further support ongoing business growth. To better support business growth, Baymiller advises IT leaders to build connections with the heads of their business units and become part of their teams.

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Gorilla Logic

JANUARY 24, 2019

In Part One of Gorilla Logic’s blog series on Agile software development, we provided recommendations for how you can realize stellar results when leveraging an Agile outsourcing model. In Part 2 of this series, we share five steps for evaluating Agile software partners that set you up for success. .

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CIO

MARCH 27, 2023

Today, Reis and his team are early-stage partners with the business to ideate new digital strategies aimed at keeping the healthcare provider at the forefront of patient experience and care, safety, and innovation. “In Kevin Gray, CIO, City of Burbank, Calif. City of Burbank, Calif.

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Prisma Clud

MARCH 7, 2023

Increasing efficiency and agility follows in a close second. Application Velocity The cloud unquestionably improves time to market, innovation and operational efficiency. This year’s survey reveals just how agile and operationally efficient cloud-native applications can be. Cost, in fact, was an outlier, with only 8.5%

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d2iq

JULY 20, 2022

These benefits include portability, lower cost of ownership, and the ability to take advantage of the continual stream of innovation within the open-source community. DevOps Are Key to Business Agility Another Gartner finding is that DevOps is the key to gaining business agility through containerized Kubernetes deployments.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Creating a culture of innovation The future of organizational design What does it mean to be an innovative company right now? From experience and observing the best practices of our most successful clients and other leading innovators , let me share a few takeaways. Concurrently, Audi drivers are increasingly becoming users.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But technical discussions obscure the very important truths about what we’ve learned in the interim between the “aha&# moment when we realized that what was happening so successfully “out there&# was something that would make us just as successful inside our organizations, for internal and customer-facing needs both.

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Apiumhub

JUNE 10, 2021

The job title “UX Engineer” can make people do a double-take if they are creative or technical, if they join the design team or should they be on the software engineering team, etc. UX engineer is a front-end engineer who focuses on the technical aspects of the entire design system. UX engineer is a translator.

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