N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements. Successful digital chiefs combine a nuanced understanding of emerging technologies with strong commercial instincts, aligning sophisticated digital strategies with core enterprise objectives to outpace market shifts and capture new opportunities.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Everyday Strategy For a CIO, while the big picture visions take focus, time is often spent dealing with the everyday challenges of an organizations tech needs. Embracing a multifaceted approach Jyothirlatha aptly states, A CTO today is a business enabler, influencing strategy and driving technology-led growth.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Private equity firm Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz co-led the financing, which also included participation from funds and accounts advised by T. If we want to get technical, the money was actually raised by CRB Group, the bank’s parent company.). We want to be judicious about it.”. My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

To stay on top of both old and new challenges, IT chiefs should evaluate their current business and technology strategies and, when necessary, adjust them to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic practices. Doing so requires a robust data management strategy. Assume that attacks are inevitable.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Inflexibility In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations need a leader who’s both agile and comfortable with change. “If Generally lacking visibility beyond their enterprise, CIOs seldom focus on personal career strategies and opportunities. On the other hand, being overly aggressive can actually damage a CIO’s reputation. “One

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Advise and collaborate. Then collaborate to develop an action plan,” advises Suneet Dua, products and technology chief growth officer at business advisory firm PwC. Before initiating a technical discussion, it’s important to consider the recipient’s perspective. Support the current business strategy.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Legacy tech and all that goes with it Legacy systems and technical debt top the list of common innovation roadblocks. Many organizations still depend on legacy technologies that are costly to maintain, inflexible, and not compatible with modern, agile development practices,” says Christopher Gilchrist, principal analyst at Forrester Research.

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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. CIOs at organizations launching AI projects should deal with their data debt before moving forward, he advises. It’s like a truth serum,” he says. “AI

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

When he’s not immersed in cybersecurity, hybrid cloud strategy, or app modernization, David Reis, CIO at the University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine, spends his time working with the board of directors and top leadership to reimagine healthcare and take the lead driving digital transformation.

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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

Now modern IT leaders are expected to have breadth and depth of experience across the broad spectrum of technology domains along with an innate sensibility to craft and lead business strategy. “Up Nafde points to a time when he was tasked with introducing the agile operating model to software engineering.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To understand how organizations may be approaching their cloud strategies and tech investments in 2023, members of VMware’s Tanzu Vanguard community shared their insights on what trends will take shape. According to Forrester , forty percent of firms will take a cloud-native first strategy.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

Rethinking talent strategies To address its AI crunch, TE Connectivity just launched a four-tier training program that will range from basic education about AI and how to use it in office jobs to ways engineers can use AI to help design specific products. Reskilling employees is a crucial step, he adds. “In

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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. As a result, CIOs find their roles being challenged by LOB counterparts.”

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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

JULY 5, 2024

Cairn is bucking this trend: Gupta says that startups are a key part of the organization’s strategy. Adopting an agile mindset For large enterprises to work successfully with startups in piloting new technologies, Gupta says they need to rethink company processes. Gupta advises enterprises to go with one of two approaches.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analyst job description BAs are responsible for creating new models that support business decisions by working closely with finance and IT teams to establish initiatives and strategies aimed at improving revenue and/or optimizing costs.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

“A truly business-driven IT team shouldn’t just be aligned with business strategy, it should have a seat at the leadership table, have a hand in directing business strategy, and be brought in on any major transformational initiatives from the get-go.” But now we’re integral to the strategy as it’s being created.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

Look for agility in seeking out new challenges Diane Schwarz, vice president and CIO at building services equipment manufacturer Johnson Controls, says she looks for leaders with an agile learner’s mindset. Agility is embedded in a person’s DNA and doesn’t change, Schwarz claims. That means you’re learning!”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He believes he can demystify digital transformation and put corporate leaders on the right path as they rethink their business strategy for the digital era. CIOs think a lot about technical skills, but they also need to think about having non-technical skills. They should rather manage through experimentation.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

Responding to both old and new challenges, IT leaders must reassess their business and technology strategies and, when necessary, realign them to address rapidly evolving business and economic concerns. There’s an industry-wide push to reduce technical and data debt and reallocate those resources toward building the future, Conyard says. “CIOs

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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. Deals done by business users alone may be technically unsound. Peterson advises creating a team with representation not just from IT, but also users, operations, finance, procurement, and legal.

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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. Crypto-agility is all about how fast you can get back up on the other side.” But certificates for email are only a small part of the problem.

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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 A complete rebuild can be disruptive, time-consuming, and risky. Full restructuring is a drastic move.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

technologies that fueled data strategies aimed at identifying inefficiencies, streamlining processes, and improving the ability to forecast and predict industry trends. In this role, you’ll need to manage and oversee the technical aspects of the organization’s biggest projects and initiatives.

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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. Key to these efforts are advances in Century’s automation strategy and forays into generative AI. It’s rigor and commitment to the strategy.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. That helps me plan.”

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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. Internal skills marketplaces are emerging as a means for retaining tech workers while also meeting demands for agile digital environments.

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