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6 ways you’re failing at change management

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Its up to IT leaders to ensure the changes their digital initiatives bring to business workflows are absorbed and acted upon by the users impacted by them. Too often, however, change management is treated as an afterthought, observes Munir Hafez, senior vice president and CIO at consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them.

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Leading the digital charge: Inspiring innovation and fostering a culture of excellence

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When talking about leading a digital change, the level of all the above is many degrees higher. So the question that plagues any professional entrusted with or motivated to drive a huge change initiative is how to inspire innovation and foster a culture of excellence.

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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What CIOs need to secure beyond tech to successfully transform

CIO

Training, communication, and change management are the real enablers. Managing change and transformation Paolo Sicca, group CIO of manufacturing company Industria Grafica Eurostampa, is an example of how his role is evolving. The change management was complex, as it always is, says Sicca.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

The compay fostered a culture of innovation by involving employees in the modernization process and addressing their concerns. Change management strategies, including clear communication and incentives, helped overcome resistance and drive adoption. This leads to an old consulting joke. A: Expensive, bad processes.

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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

CIO

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. Our legacy culture was focused on continuous improvements to processes and reducing costs.