N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements. A well-rounded leader in this capacity must do more than keep the lights on digitally; they define the very contours of how the organization engages its customers, develops internal talent, and monetizes digital assets.

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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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Martin Fowler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. -- Melvin Conway. If an architecture is designed at odds with the development organization's structure, then tensions appear in the software structure. Responses to Conway's Law.

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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

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

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. The trick for CIOs who have significant tech debt is to sell it to organization leadership , he says. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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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. Restructuring can create uncertainty and stress in an organization, and it shouldn’t be used lightly or regularly, Sinclair explains.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Without revenue from sales of products or services, a business becomes little more than a hobby or a charitable organization. Is your IT organization doing all it can to help sales team members build and retain customers? To find the answer, consider the following ways IT can help ensure the sales organization is primed for success.

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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

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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Over the past few years, CIOs have focused on enabling hybrid work, driving efficiencies through automation, modernizing applications, enabling machine learning predictions, and maturing the data-driven organization. In addition, business stakeholders often demand fast results.

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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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Gorilla Logic

MARCH 21, 2019

During my time at Gorilla Logic, I have had the opportunity to work as a Senior Consultant and as a Technical Lead on a very demanding set of services/products for companies that want to skyrocket their efficiency and revenue while maintaining quality, performance, and low technical debt. Be a Servant Technical Lead .

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

But on the other hand, AI and generative AI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm Insight. “It Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We’ve entered another year where current economic conditions are pressuring organizations to do more with less, all while still executing against digital transformation imperatives to keep the business running and competitive. The growth of Kubernetes, and the benefits it brings to organizations, is not something that is going away.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

Nafde was tapped at the onset to lead the technical integration of the two entities — an assignment he says served as a proof point that he was more than capable of executing larger responsibilities. Nafde points to a time when he was tasked with introducing the agile operating model to software engineering.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Rogers: This is one of two fundamental challenges of corporate innovation — managing innovation under high uncertainty and managing innovation far from the core — that I have studied in my work advising companies and try to tackle in my new book The Digital Transformation Roadmap. The vision must be unique and specific to that organization.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most midsize and large organizations are spending significantly on cloud capabilities. The result of all this tech activity is that organizations are putting great stock in their CIOs to be true strategic leaders — not just a member of the C-Suite, but one of its loudest voices.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

Every IT organization has hidden experts. As you survey your organization’s ranks, both within and outside IT, the following tips will help you identify individuals with the most promise to impact IT’s remit regardless of their current position, experience, and IT skill set. That means you’re learning!”

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2024

It’s tempting to view certificates and machine identities as the nuts and bolts of your organization’s tech stack: critical but purely technical functions safely left to IT practitioners. Mail and machines You may have noticed emails in your inbox being tagged as not just from outside your organization but from unverified senders.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

The company has forged partnerships with a wide variety of organizations that promote women in tech and serves as a sponsor to groups like She Secures , a community for women cybersecurity professionals and enthusiasts. There’s a stereotype of what security looks like, but the technical stuff is the easiest to pick up,” Lee says.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

As a result, organizations such as TE Connectivity are launching internal training programs to reskill IT and other employees about AI. Such programs, IT and HR leaders believe, will give their organizations added benefits that a hiring-heavy approach to AI needs isn’t likely to provide.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Demand has increased so much that IT job postings in manufacturing doubled between May 2021 and 2022, according to Dice.com, with increased demand for skills such as agile development, Python, software development, automation, C++, SQL, and Java, among others.

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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. When we started with startups, we were evaluating them just like we did major organizations. Gupta advises enterprises to go with one of two approaches.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

According to the Foundry report, 78% of organizations say that, in response to cloud investments made by the organization, they have added new roles. These IT pros can also help organizations avoid potential risks around cloud security, while ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud across the company.

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CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Technologies such as AI and processes such as agile make it more difficult to know what commitments to seek. The biggest missteps seem to flow from applying approaches that succeed internally across organizations,” says Peterson. Deals done by business users alone may be technically unsound.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

There’s an industry-wide push to reduce technical and data debt and reallocate those resources toward building the future, Conyard says. “CIOs To achieve this goal, “CIOs need to treat the assessment and analysis of data as a scientific discipline,” he advises. Krantz suggests that IT leaders should seek Ph.D.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

Scavuzzo, who has been with Marcum for 17 years, has been reshaping the IT function and his own role for much of the decade so that his tech organization is well positioned to drive the business agenda. Our organization is depending on us to drive the business into the future,” he adds. These changes, he says, were an imperative.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

Organizations are also considering relaxing the 40-hour workweek. 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. “If But also by saying things, you also alienate somebody,” Kropp says.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Organizations across various sectors, including corporations, educational institutions, government entities, and social media personalities, can use this solution to provide automated coaching for their employees, students, and public speaking engagements. Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services. Akshay Singhal is a Sr.

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CIO

AUGUST 17, 2023

Palmer is one of the world’s top AI experts and a longtime industry veteran who is educating and advising companies on how to approach and harness this new technology. 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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Accenture

AUGUST 16, 2018

April Wensel, the founder of Compassionate Coding , spoke to a sold-out room gathered to hear her keynote speech at the Women in Agile event at the Agile2018 conference in San Diego. Wensel advised us to use empathy at work to alleviate suffering within this circle. Everyone is technical, everyone has skills they were hired for.

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CIO

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We haven’t changed our forecast in three quarters,” he says, noting that the US gross domestic product (GDP) is, technically, already in recession territory and has been for the past six months. We want to help our organization move faster,” and the goal is to “allow smart people to do the things” that only they can do.

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