CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Later, I transitioned into leadership, where I found a natural alignment with my skills and developed a passion for management. These individuals play a pivotal role in driving change and implementing new strategies. These individuals play a pivotal role in driving change and implementing new strategies.

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whenever an organization implements a new process, updates an existing process, deploys new technology, or fine-tunes services, its leaders must be mindful that even a simple change to a single process can start a domino effect, introducing issues in a range of other processes that must also be addressed. AIM Change Management Certification.

Change Management 148

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

A recent study by the Association for Change Management Professionals (ACMP) shows that 73% of change management professionals surveyed also have other, non-change-related job duties. Using change management methods, HR can truly take on the role of facilitator of organizational success.

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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. Identify and pursue the skills necessary for your goals.

CTO Coach 88

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives. CIOs and project managers understand these risks. They set and manage expectations and guard against scope creep. They do everything they can on the IT side to address them.

Project Management 201

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Business leaders can’t wait until next year for another budget to get approved.” “New business opportunities arise at any time, and people have to be able to quickly purchase tools to get the job done,” he says.

Strategy 185

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short — and most revolve around leadership. IT leaders must work with business leadership to help establish a clear understanding of digital transformation goals and a practical roadmap for achieving them.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Budget for surprises.

Project Management 202

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. The demand for project managers has grown, with salaries for this role increasing by 15.6% percent since 2021, according to Dice. Average salary: US$120,653 Increase since 2021: 15.6%

Systems Administration 210

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. Leadership “puts their money where their mouth is.” Those sessions have also been integrated into various learning events for the leadership.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The mistake most companies make is going straight to the CIO without buy-in from the leadership group immediately under them. Most CIOs already suffer from tool fatigue, managing a budget that includes hundreds of SaaS applications. Make sure you have a clearly articulated plan for deployment and change management.

Enterprise 216

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

What agile leadership looks like Redefining how architects collaborate with agile teams is one way to improve business-IT collaboration and outcomes. By adopting agile roles, enterprise architects can improve their ability to deliver against their specific goals and change executive perceptions.

Agile 218

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2013

By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Management is your day job; leadership is your career. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2024

First, you end up allocating too much budget to business-as-usual infrastructure rather than investing in innovations that can drive real business growth. “If we don’t do this with a clear plan and in a logical way, considering all the technology assets and risks, negative things can happen,” she says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In late 2023, an edX survey of 800 C-suite executives showed that more than half thought executive leadership or C-suite roles will be partly or completely replaced by AI. But that becomes quite impersonal and doesn’t align with having leadership EQ.” To survive, transformational leadership skills are essential.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Such advice, however, speaks only to what CIOs need to successfully manage the IT department — that is, to deliver operational excellence and meet key performance requirements. Here, veteran CIOs and executive leadership experts highlight the essential traits required to be a standout IT leader today.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% As every CIO can attest, the aggregate demand for IT and data capabilities is straining their IT leadership teams. Doing so will help CIOs increase the number of initiatives IT can launch, while delivering results faster and reducing the organization’s friction to change.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

Systems Review 197

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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

Exam fee: $575 for ISACA members and $760 for non-members Expiration: Three years Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Security is a main concern for the enterprise and once you start heading into management and leadership positions, it’ll become one of your top priorities.

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DevOps.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this week’s The Long View: Birmingham looks like the Detroit of the UK—is it Oracle’s fault? Plus: Was Toyota’s factory failure caused by running out of disk space?

Budget 130

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CEO Insider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The post How Authenticity Can Provide Key to Success in Leadership appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. However, there is a way of helping professionals and leaders get promoted from within, landing desirable jobs while at the same time increasing sales and revenue substantially. Authenticity is the most powerful way of adding […].

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. IT Leadership, Project Management, Project Management Tools

Project Management 158

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CIO

MARCH 24, 2023

Programs must define accountabilities in a manner that introduces checks-and-balances between business and technology teams, and between those who create/collect information, those who manage it, those who use it, and those who introduce standards and compliance requirements.

Government 214

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Investments hadn’t tied us much to business strategy and goals as they were to iterative improvements, digitization, shiny objects, unrealistic expectations, under-resourced budgets, training, expertise, and resources, and a lack of commitment to change management.

Innovation 217

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

Things change, priorities shift. So you have to embrace change and understand that change management is a continual process. Budget constraints, of course, are ever present and need to be worked through very closely. Change Management, CTO, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership

Culture 148

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise that two out of every three IT organizations are planning to allocate more than five percent of their budgets to AI initiatives. 1 Embracing their change management roles CIOs—more than any other executive or line of business role—are becoming the central authority for most organization’s AI budgets and priorities.

Enterprise 107

Enterprise Off-The-Shelf Artificial Inteligence SDLC 107

CIO

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives linked to digital, and the percentage of the annual tech budget spent on bold digital initiatives. Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, IT Strategy, ROI and Metrics

KPI 211

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership.

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CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Leading project management organization the Project Management Institute attempts to decode what it takes to be a successful project manager with its PMI Talent Triangle , comprising Ways of Working (formerly Technical Project Management), Power Skills (formerly Leadership), and Business Acumen (formerly Strategic and Business Management).

Project Management 205

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Apps Associates

JUNE 14, 2022

A Change Management Strategy should be a part of every digital transformation. In this multi-part series, we dive deep into the Apps Methodology for Change Management and this service should be a part of any digital transformation initiative. A Change Management strategy should be a part of every digital transformation.

Change Management 52

Change Management Training Strategy Sustainability 52

CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

Ball embodies the key leadership attributes that separate top CIOs from the rest, differentiators I’ve dubbed the 7 Cs, because these leaders maintain a laser-like focus on customer, culture, cultivating talent, courage, change, communication, and collaboration. Why is that an important guiding principle of your leadership?

Leadership 148

Leadership Enterprise Culture Mobile 148

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. CIOs should make sure they have change management expertise on board, too. “It

Strategy 217

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Change is inevitable and so is the resistance to change. People are often not welcoming of change unless it is implemented by leadership correctly. Change brings about fear of the unknown, which creates an atmosphere of unnecessary anxiety. Management and leadership are not synonymous.

Leadership 65

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But on offense, when you have an automated change management solution in place along with processes to scan your code, your organization can more easily find and understand vulnerabilities before they become a problem. When I see issues at the customer level, the first question to ask is, “What changed?” Hybrid Cloud

Innovation 148

Innovation Insurance Strategy Change Management 148

CIO

APRIL 22, 2022

From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Here, CIO.com outlines the most popular project management certifications that will add value and help you hone your skills this year.

Project Management 167

Project Management SCRUM Software Review Technical Review 167

Perficient

MARCH 8, 2025

Environmental Leadership as a Competitive Advantage Patagonia’s remarkable business success powerfully illustrates how environmental responsibility can create lasting competitive advantage in the marketplace. Addressing Resistance to Change Institutional transformation inevitably encounters resistance.

Sustainability 72

Sustainability Systems Review Culture Social 72

CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trust One is also knee deep in transforming its IT organization and operating model, transitioning away from a program management office (PMO) to a product-centered organization. Listening to employees and understanding what’s working and what’s not is central to the change management exercise, and to winning collective hearts and minds.

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