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

JULY 14, 2023

What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. What are the benefits of change management?

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Our mental models of what constitutes a high-performance team have evolved considerably over the past five years. Pre-pandemic, high-performance teams were co-located, multidisciplinary, self-organizing, agile, and data-driven. What is a high-performance team today?

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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 15, 2025

While centralizing data can improve performance and security, it can also lead to inefficiencies, increased costs and limitations on cloud mobility. Those who manage it strategically, however, can turn data gravity into a competitive advantage, using it to enhance performance, security and agility across a distributed cloud infrastructure.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2025

IDCs CIO Sentiment Survey, July 2024 Cross-training or hiring line-of-business (LOB) staff to do IT: A notable 41% of organizations are cross-training or hiring internal LOB staff to perform IT functions. Mona Liddell is a research manager for IDCs CIO Executive Research team. Contact us today to learn more.

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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

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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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

Bailey expects there will soon be an AI transformation from personal assistant to digital colleague, with AI performing end-to-end automation tasks alongside the traditional workforce. With AI agents on the horizon, there will be a significant number of business processes that will be a much better fit for AI then we have previously seen.

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CIO

JULY 9, 2024

The overall performance of the ‘Tahwaul’ government digital transformation programme reached 53% in 2023. Government Entities achieved an average performance of 72% in digital transformation during the same period.

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Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Bestselling author Rodger Dean Duncan of Duncan Worldwide shares nuggets of wisdom from his book, Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance. Listen to hear what Dr. Duncan calls the Four T’s: key leadership behaviors that drive change. Change Management'

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

It’s the COO’s purview to maintain a keen eye on the operational successes and shortfalls, constantly seeking to optimize processes and implement changes where required, be it internally or externally. Also, as a part of the executive management team , COOs frequently play an intricate role in policy development and governance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 9, 2015

7 Big Changes Every Leader Wants to Know About. Do you know how current trends will change the face of leadership in your company? Is your company ready to meet the new leadership challenges in the coming years? Are you aware of how leadership is evolving to respond to those trends?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

which performed two ERP deployments in seven years. Allegis plugged the gaps by integrating 12 third-party technologies and building custom solutions to give the company the ability to perform tasks such as replenishment and demand planning. This “put some structure around data quality and data security,” she says.

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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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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. You have to build authentic relationships and connections throughout the entire enterprise.”

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Within the framework of new ways of working, the Copilot M365 pilot project has been carried out to help evaluate the impact of the gen AI tool, alongside active change management. The Generative AI Competence Center has also had a major impact on professionals and the corporate culture.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

AdaptiveION co-founders Steve Davis and Ken Spangler are two former technology executives who know what it takes to build and lead a highly adaptive organization capable of thriving through change or disruption. As a managing director at Accenture, Davis led some of the largest agile transformations at global scale.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Both options represent some level of financial, regulatory, or performance risk.” Here’s a rundown of six IT policies or protocols that, in certain situations, with certain guardrails in place, can be disregarded in order to perform what needs to get done. IT Leadership, IT Management, IT Strategy

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Bhavani Amirthalingam’s career spans more than 25 years in key technology and executive leadership roles across a multitude of industries and geographies. She then led the digital transformation of Schneider Electric, a global Fortune 100 energy management company. Folks can get enamored by the technology.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2022

He’s able to spot synergies in supply chain processes that could create efficiencies, and connect leaders in high-performing geographies with lower-performing regions that could benefit from their perspective — even if they’re not in the same business division. Integration requires tweaking leadership styles.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2024

Nearly two-thirds (62%) said their firms were waiting to see how new regulations around AI use develop, while 74% said that substantive change management would be needed to help cope with the advent of generative AI. It comes down to whether it’s top of mind and whether it’s an agenda item for the CEO and leadership,” he said.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In this era of interconnectedness and rapid change, high-performing teams are the driving force behind innovation, productivity and organizational growth. What causes some teams to perform better than others? Team members in high-performing teams tend to be more engaged and satisfied with their work.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

He’s also a big believer in the agile DevOps concept of “shifting left” when it comes to technology — performing testing and evaluation early in the development process, generally before code is written — and “shifting right” when it concerns talent, where his vision for eliminating Toyota’s service desk is an example.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

IT leaders have gotten the message: To successfully perform their jobs, they need more than technical skills. That has been the message coming from veteran CIOs, executive advisors, and management consultants in recent years. In other words, they excel at managing IT budgets, projects, staffing needs, and so on.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

After all, many C-suite leaders and employees have an outdated impression of what IT departments do today, which may undermine the CIO’s digital transformation , change management, and other strategic objectives. “We What comes first: A new brand or operating model?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Additionally, due to the increasing use of technology and digital tools, the Chief Revenue Officer needs to harness data, AI, and other cutting-edge tech to boost performance and stay ahead of the competition. Outstanding CROs demonstrate a talent for innovation, change management, and strategic decision-making.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

During key change management initiatives (which are often part of an IT governance agenda), this approach enables leaders to monitor the impact of change as it happens, make data-driven adjustments, and foster a transparent, communicative environment that values different perspectives. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

“If the organization has little to no trust, especially between software development teams and management or your executives and anyone under them, the transformation of anything will not work,” she said. Agile can help build trust between teams, stakeholders, and leadership, but agile cannot correct a lack of trust between people.

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2023

The underpinning architecture needs to include event-streaming technology, high-performing databases, and machine learning feature stores. In this article, I’ll share insights on aligning vision and leadership, as well as reducing complexity to make data actionable for delivering real-time AI solutions.

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