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10 tips to help you excel in a new leadership role

CIO

You just landed an IT leadership role. Your team expects you to lead. And you know how hard it can be to recover from a bad first impression. To help you stick this landing, I spoke with seasoned leaders about the lessons they have learned from years in leadership. It’s about the team. No pressure, right?

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO

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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26 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

Load a smart read onto your phone or e-reader or crack the spine of a new book and delve into some thought leadership on everything from leading an amazing team to building a productive company culture to reaching for a better mindset for guiding your organization forward. This book offers valuable techniques and frameworks.

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7 ways to foster IT innovation

CIO

Define and articulate your definition of IT innovation. Asking your team to be innovative is like asking an athlete to play better. While this description is rather long, use its components and concepts to define your own definition, based on your organization’s current needs and your future IT vision. Think specificity.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. This ITSM, ITIL style of discipline and portfolio management is going to come back because you definitely need that level of discipline for this new workload.”

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO

For understanding teams “CTOs and CIOs who work for organizations that are struggling to deliver value sustainably will greatly benefit from reading Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019) by Manuel Pais and Matt Skelton,” says Peter Kreslins Jr.,

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Emerging companies thrive on data. Shouldn’t they use it to improve hiring decisions?

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Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates at each stage of company growth. Zoe Jervier Hewitt. Contributor.