N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Interim executives have become indispensable in addressing immediate leadership needs, whether due to sudden departures, organizational restructuring, or transformational change management. This data highlights the growing recognition of soft skills as a cornerstone of effective leadership.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

I didn’t fully consider we were changing the way our employees did their jobs, and that every person was going through their own change management challenges at various times. In my simple Scottish brain, I thought, “We’ve all agreed we’re doing this, so we’ll all fall in line and tell our employees to prepare for change.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The best way to ensure alignment is to make IT leadership an active part of organizational leadership.” Since there’s no universal model across business functions, IT must always keep in mind how they are leaders and partners of change in the corporation, whether it’s at a technical, business, or human change management level.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Then a clear plan was also required for how it should be incorporated into the job, based on clear leadership and change management. “The long-term human aspect was to make sure everyone understood the point of the AI ​​support, and how to use the technology,” he adds. That’s crucial for success.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Change management strategies, including clear communication and incentives, helped overcome resistance and drive adoption. Leadership played a crucial role in driving cultural change, with executives championing modernization initiatives and leading by example. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Trusted advisor: While enterprise architects can often be seen as the catalysts for technology they must provide credible guidance to business leadership, offering insights into technology trends, risks and opportunities and avoid repeating mistakes of the past.

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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.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Leadership commitment No digital transformation will be successful without leadership commitment and backing. On top of setting clear expectations, providing necessary resources, and celebrating successes, leadership must stay engaged with the team to inspire, invoke energy and provide a vision of success in relatable ways.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“Often, technical leaders don’t devote sufficient time to communication, change management, and stakeholder management,” he observes. Hafez adds that most modernization projects typically fail due to a lack of a realistic expectations, defined requirements, and ineffective change management.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The post Low Code and Change Management with Max Rudman appeared first on DevOps.com. Low code creates a seamless integration between cloud platforms, tools and utilities. As low-code applications increasingly become a shared […].

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While DevOps speeds up software release cycles, change management often slows them down. So, how do you do change management in a fast-paced DevOps environment? Change control enables organizations to meet compliance and governance while managing changes at the speed of business.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” During my career I have developed a few mottos. Thus, to help humans embrace the better, I need to make the better both familiar and comfortable. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Frank LaQuinta, principal and CIO, Edward Jones Frank LaQuinta / Edward Jones “Decentralizing that decision-making enables organizations to harness the full potential of whatever digital technologies they have to drive business growth in a rapidly changing market,” Adams says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Top CIOs rebrand IT as part of a transformational vision that inspires the IT team, employees, stakeholders, and executives to experiment and drive change. These CIOs also avoid digital transformation’s change management mistakes by guiding IT teams to drive end-user adoption, capture feedback, and iteratively improve solutions.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Credo che il change management sia un tema fondamentale, che ogni CIO deve gestire”, afferma Andrea Roero, Chief information officer di Molteni, gruppo di aziende dell’arredo di design Made in Italy. Il change management è il vero cuore della trasformazione digitale, ancor prima delle tecnologie.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

To give an example of this in practice, we paired a CIO with an eye on continuing their executive leadership career at a new company with Stephen Van Vreede, president, executive resume writer, and coach for ITtechExec.com, to help improve their resume and modernize the overall look and feel. View the revised resume for “Patricia T.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

The next step is understanding how to implement GenAI effectively, from overcoming adoption barriers to change management a topic we will explore in Part 2 of this series. Mona Liddell is a research manager for IDCs CIO Executive Research team. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The good news for CIOs is that you have an opportunity to take a leadership role with AI, especially as organizations mitigate risk by keeping AI model development centralized. Dont forget to consider the support employees will need to adopt AI and develop a change management plan to bring everyone along.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. We decided that change, agility, and value would be key to put people at the center of the transformation.

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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. Building relationships with mid-level leaders is essential for successful change management.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

Embrace organizational change management (OCM) OCM adoption can help CIOs minimize disruption during a time of digital transformation , says Gaudy Jandron, CIO at data center, cloud services, and managed services provider US Signal. The reality is that the transition is a long-term endeavor.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Deloittes State of Generative AI in the Enterprise found that only 20% of organizations are highly prepared for talent considerations in adopting gen AI compared to 45% in technology infrastructure and 41% in data management. This data suggests change management efforts are lagging technology efforts at many organizations.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But more than anything, the data platform is putting decision-making tools in the hands of our business so people can better manage their operations. How would you categorize the change management that needed to happen to build a new enterprise data platform? We thought about change in two ways.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The report highlighted seven key characteristics of successfully data-driven companies, each of which lands firmly on the desks of CIOs, who are expected to provide leadership for the data-driven enterprise. In 2022, McKinsey published a report called, The data-driven enterprise of 2025.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With your executive leadership, how do you make sure when you’re going down that path, you bring them along? We have a general manager for each business unit, and I also had to convince them that something is the right thing to do. Sarah Betadam has served as the CIO and CISO of Novanta since January 2021.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Working on long-term milestones while balancing everyday obstacles, embracing the learning curve while becoming a sought-after business leader, and changing long-held perceptions, Indias women CIOs are writing a new chapter in multifaceted leadership. Remember, leadership is about lifting others as you climb.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Stephan Schmitt is a digital transformation leader whose specialties include transformational leadership and change management. He has worked in global service delivery for over 15 years and has expertise in multi-cloud adoption, enterprise architecture and data management, as well as hybrid-cloud migrations, SaaS and AI.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 4, 2023

Our reader poll today asks: How deliberate are you about applying change management practices when your team faces a large change? Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

After all, change management is a vital component of digital transformation success. Evangelizing for that change — from the very beginning — can make all the difference. Why be an evangelist? 1 for CIOs to do the selling.

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

At some point in your career, you’re likely to find yourself in transition, having left an IT leadership job without a new one lined up. While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event.

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Perficient

JANUARY 8, 2025

Its difficult, in the consulting services industry, to explain the requirement for existence of a core thought leadership group to augment the sales and marketing teams that are tasked with collection of logos. In the financial sector, where trust is paramount, thought leadership plays a crucial role in establishing credibility.

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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

Joy Brown’s rise through the upper echelons of digital and IT roles models what is now requisite preparation for technology leadership. As the business world evolved and things changed, my list of what was needed evolved as well,” she says. People can’t help you grow and develop if they don’t know where you are headed,” she says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The technical skills, IT leadership expertise, and ability to keep the network secure and running, and even to deliver innovation aren’t enough to create success for today’s CIOs. Intangible 2: Change leadership “Most people are familiar with change management,” Struckman says. “If This is what we’re doing.

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CIO

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The disparity in adoption levels revealed a very real change management curve that required enhanced support and coaching to help teams integrate these solutions, Downing explains. His company deployed Microsoft Copilot, its AI solution, to software engineering teams; some had meaningful efficiency gains right away but others did not.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Providing Guidance for Top-Tier Leadership Development; The N2Growth Way In today’s fast-changing business world, the concept of leadership has become more nuanced. Commercial leadership, as defined in this context, includes the strategic actions carried out by individuals or teams in charge.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Key considerations for cloud strategy and modernization The what: The executive leadership team of business and IT together need to evaluate business needs and their current business challenges, global footprint and current technology landscape and define the companys Northstar, (aka, the what, the vision).

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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.

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