CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Leonard Poor stakeholder management can also lead to a lack of buy-in, miscommunication, and, ultimately, the failure of crucial initiatives. I’ve seen projects falter when IT leaders fail to recognize non-traditional stakeholders like marketing teams using unsanctioned tools,” says Leonard. “In

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CIO

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. I strongly believe in situational leadership.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. Any successful team starts with cultivating the right talent, whether that’s in baseball or in IT.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Kent Beck concluded , Measure developer productivity? He says a measurement based approach generates relatively weak improvements and significant distortion of incentives. If you did this exercise with your leadership team, youd probably get different answers. They tend to be passionate, senior developers.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. How do they affect Leadership? First, leadership is more complex.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, CIOs must still demonstrate measurable outcomes and communicate these imperatives to senior leadership to secure investment. CIOs need to align operations with these new use cases while ensuring their teams can support enterprise-wide digital transformations. CIOs can measure the benefits of resilience in various ways, too.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

But the value of long-term roadmaps has dwindled to the point where Hausheer, senior vice president and CIO of Teradata, now uses a different, shorter-term plan to steer her and her team. For decades, organizations and their executive teams looked years ahead. Humans are notoriously bad at predicting the future.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Defective leadership Leadership is a key component in the successful timing of any major transformation project, ahead of strategy and technology, says Suneet Dua, chief revenue and growth officer for products and technology at business advisory firm PwC. Mistimed initiatives ultimately result in poor adoption, Lively warns. “If

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Three years ago BSH Home Appliances completely rearranged its IT organization, creating a digital platform services team consisting of three global platform engineering teams, and four regional platform and operations teams. We see this as a strategic priority to improve developer experience and productivity,” he says.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

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.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It takes hard work, a good team and plenty of self-awareness, but neurodivergence is no barrier to success. One wrong move can waste the entire budget, leaving the company on the brink. To turn our situation around, my team and I created a roadmap, setting quarterly development goals with a focus on high-impact tasks.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Businesses have struggled to establish diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) work environments for some time now, but the events of 2020 put a spotlight on just how bad most organizations are at building impactful DEI efforts. For both employee experience teams and diversity leads, it’s important to distinguish between equity and equality.

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Mobilunity

JANUARY 28, 2025

At the same time, poor cloud cost management is destructive for businesses, as, besides obvious overspending, resource inefficiency, and budget overruns, it can cause other, hidden and long-term consequences. Tools with strong forecasting capabilities help teams plan for future cloud spending with higher accuracy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 8, 2016

No matter how wonderful you are, I guarantee you, your team is talking about you (in some way that would surprise you) too. As we dig in, he’s never that bad. A little bit of quality leadership development is worth the investment. And chances are you haven’t told them. Here’s the real deal.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 16, 2014

Jennifer encourages leaders to give some thought to career conversations they have with their team. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership brings us a timeless list of great advice in his post 15 Timeless Work Habits For Career Success. It’s one thing to have a bad day, yet another to fall on tough times. Follow Ryan @jryan48.

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CIO

MARCH 27, 2023

Fewer than half (44%) of data and analytics leaders say their teams are effective in providing value to their organization. The mean reported budget among respondents was $5.41 million, and 44% said their data and analytics teams increased in size over the past year.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Not only do great CEOs understand how to recruit a top executive team, but they also understand how to build cohesion among team members through collaboration while addressing specific situational and contextual needs.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

It was interesting joining this team and becoming the CIO at an organization that I knew well,” he says. We defined a clearly set service catalog against an idle framework, and were able to set portfolio leads around the capabilities we’ve developed,” he says. The other part is to have a core infrastructure team that can respond.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

Schneider Electric’s IT organization achieved that goal by reducing the layers for technology- and budget-related approvals, and by trusting managers and staff to make as many of those decisions as possible within the company’s “delegation of authority pathways” framework.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

But Southwest’s technology was also cited by experts and the company’s leadership as contributing to the calamity. “IT How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios? They canceled over 1,800 flights over a weekend in 2021 that Southwest’s pilots’ union attributed to management’s “poor planning.”

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2024

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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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Budgeting & forecasting. Policy & controls development with implementation. Human resource leadership. Obtaining an effective security budget is a constant battle. If the security budget is measured against a percentage of the IT budget, this creates an ineffective security posture for the business.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. Is there strong leadership and mentorship? Without these variables at play it will be difficult to develop someone internally.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 26, 2015

I always thought it was strange how great leadership was always thought to be vitally important to a businesses success, but yet it was quite often the least discussed thing in the meeting rooms, and the budget money allocated to “leadership training” was always limited (or the first thing to get cut back). Why is this the case?

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Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

If you’ve been a part of any software development project, you know things don’t always go as planned. And in Apiumhub we believe that the best way to work through what happened during an incident and capture any lessons learned is by conducting a software development project postmortem. Was there a budget overrun?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. There are other risks, too.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Such conversations … should conclude with clear actions, benefits, timelines, and the budget and resources required to close gaps.” Venables recommends that modernization conversations should be held in boardrooms, executive leadership meetings, and business unit–specific strategy sessions. What would be the next steps?

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CIO

AUGUST 23, 2022

Being efficient means producing high-quality, sustainable, and expected outcomes on time and on budget, says Christopher Kowalsky, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Leadership efficiency is a career-long commitment. They trust their leadership team.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Back in the mid 90s, I had a friend who was really into raytracing, but needed to nurture his hobby on a budget. AMD would put out budget parts that might make economic sense in narrow niches, but Intel kept taking all the big trophies in gaming, in productivity, and on the server. It's also just as efficient now.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

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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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More often than not, startups struggle to afford the top developers from industry because of budget constraints. Also read – How to recruit on shoestring budget ) Usually, top coders or senior managers are left for later, with the intention of hiring them when money flows in. This factor is termed software entropy.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

According to IDC’s April 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4 , companies are increasingly allocating budgets to explore technologies like generative AI, with 53% increasing IT budgets and 30% shifting budgets from digital transformation.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. to discuss what operational screenings and organizational development exams you need and when you need them. determine what health services and screenings are best for you and your team. By Damian “Skipper” Pitts. WHY ARE ORGANIZATIONAL CHECK-UPS IMPORTANT?

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Asking your team to be innovative is like asking an athlete to play better. As a result, with R&D type projects, ROI can’t be reliably calculated; deliverables, other than status and budget reports, can’t be predicted; and total cost to implementation can’t be effectively estimated. Innovation, IT Leadership

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

No matter how much irresponsibility on the part of leadership or others within the organization may have contributed to said demise, the majority of the company’s employees likely worked very hard to help it be successful and don’t deserve to be mocked or ridiculed, even if not directly.

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