SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2013

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Common Signals I''ve written previously about Symptoms of a Weak Development Team. Rogue developers with their own agenda. Bugs – no big deal.

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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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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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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 18, 2024

Nester and BBNI’s communications team partnered on a multilevel campaign to officially roll out the Technology Solutions entity and promote its newly-coined “techniculture” mission of leveraging technology to drive successful business outcomes. The next pillar of the Techniculture foundation is Techniculture Live, an annual leadership summit.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Code change management processes One rule that can occasionally be broken without outside repercussions is sending new code or a new capability into production without first following a required change management process, Chowning says.

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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

MAY 24, 2023

“Managing data and using data should be considered a portfolio of actions,” says Thomas. When a good framework is defined, the CIO should be able to hand off tasks to different teams with full confidence not only that they’ll be performed accurately, but the outcome will contribute to achieving the overall goal.”

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

Plus, there was the company’s own IT landscape with a self-operated data center in the basement at the headquarters in Bad Homburg, just north of Frankfurt. So it’s incumbent on Elfering and his team to be vigilant and constantly monitor new IT trends. IT transformation is a people job,” he says.

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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer is a key member of the executive team, collaborating closely with the CEO, CFO, and COO to steer the organization’s overall growth strategy. Outstanding CROs demonstrate a talent for innovation, change management, and strategic decision-making.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. Are agile teams overly stressed with too many priorities? Is the organization transforming fast enough?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The truth is that even these world-class leaders have room to grow and can find ways to identify their weaknesses, optimize their performance, and become even better leaders. Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. How is that possible?

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Perficient

MAY 9, 2023

Now that your cloud strategy, business objectives, governance and baseline infrastructure are in place, it’s all about enabling your product teams to be successful in delivering business value – and that means meeting them where they are in their transformation journey. Poor software health? There is a lot to consider!

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2024

The job is so large that Allianz Technology CTO Gülay Stelzmüllner, then CIO, hired Karcher in October 2022 to develop the company’s ESG reporting strategy because she didn’t have enough time to strategize for it herself, given her ongoing CIO duties. We have to be able to rely on the data, otherwise it’s just a good guess.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Building a great team is one of the most critical tasks for any CIO. But to assemble a high-performance team today , CIOs must pay particular attention to their management ranks. Good managers are key not only to recruiting and retaining the bulk of the IT workforce but also to ensuring IT work gets done and is done well.

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The Recovering Engineer

APRIL 22, 2013

Likewise, team members with a task focus often place a higher priority on transactional trust between them and their leader than they do on relational trust. And, team members with a relational focus place a higher priority on developing relational trust with their leader. Change Management Lessons: Surprise Breeds Inaction.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times. What is VUCA Leadership? If businesses are to get through difficult experiences, strong leadership is essential.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school.

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Perficient

MAY 20, 2023

This article isn’t about the psychology of our rational versus emotional processing, but I mention it because we must be aware of this as we set out to provide and receive honest evaluations between ourselves, our team members, and business partners. These are two areas where positivity can become toxic. You’ve probably been there.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Digital transformation defined Digital transformation has become a catchall term for describing the implementation of digital technologies to re-engineer existing processes or develop new services that better engage customers, support employees, improve business operations, and drive business value to the organization’s bottom line.

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Perficient

APRIL 29, 2024

We’ve all heard of servant leadership. The concept of “being a servant” to your teams and treating employees as critical individuals to be cultivated and empowered, has strong merit. This can help managers support their teams, clear the path, and improve productivity by stepping out of the way as much as possible.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

The Need for Effective Leadership Succession Regardless of size or industry, every organization goes through leadership transitions. This inevitable change can sometimes cause instability and uncertainty within the workforce if not managed carefully. Instead, it’s deeply proactive and strategic in its approach.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

If you’ve checked my other blog posts , I tend to focus on innovation , creativity , corporate culture , project management , and organizational change management. Leaving his office, I didn’t have a good feeling and felt like nothing would change. This could get bad for all of us!” My co-workers said, “No!

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Henrik Warne

MAY 26, 2019

DevOps in this context means things like continuous delivery, automated tests, trunk-based development, and proactive monitoring of system health. Many aspects of software development are hard to measure. The authors also found that for automated tests to be effective, they should be created by the developers themselves.

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Change Starts Here

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Listen to hear how to know if you or others have poor “work-life balance” and what the impact on the organization is, and how to go about implementing role integration concepts at work. As change management professionals our success often depends upon our ability to influence without authority and to influence “difficult” people.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 26, 2021

The bad news is that if you fail, your washout could haunt your CIO career for years to come. CIOs should assess the current IT team’s ability to set objectives and deliver positive results. A telltale sign of a dysfunctional IT department is weak security. This will require a great deal of time and effort on your part.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With lots of Indians here and not much of a time difference, change management is less, too.” The challenges of managing IT in a foreign land Adjusting to a new environment, motivating team members, and earning trust are challenges all expat CIOs confront. PoCs take a lot of time,” he says.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 31, 2023

We’ve discussed implementing digital transformation at an enterprise scale , the importance of design research , and how successful teams plan and execute ideas. At its foundation, digital transformation is a process of disruptive change that aims to introduce a reinventive force to the industry it occupies.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

I am in favor of developing a mindset and culture that focuses on positivity, as long as it is authentic. Overt aspects of culture often utilize the reasoning, intellectual parts of our brain — the dominant focus of today’s leadership teams. The same is true in the world of leadership and culture.

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scruminc

JULY 30, 2020

We asked the team what books they are currently nose-deep in, or that they highly recommend others check-out. Brandon Cole, Art Director recommends: " Atomic Habits, An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones " by James Clear. Why do we struggle to change or improve our habits? And it can occur anywhere.

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The Recovering Engineer

JANUARY 22, 2013

When you are in the change business, you will eventually have to deal with resistance to your ideas, the direction you want to go, the new behaviors you are expecting, and more. Dealing with resistance is a normal part of leadership. Your Now Step: Think about a change you hope to create within your team.

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Perficient

JULY 25, 2024

Macbeth’s ambition envisions a perfect ending though desperate actions and moral weakness ruin it. Someone on the client team wants to arrive at perfect front-end performance, accessibility, or security marks. The Tantalizing Idea of Perfection Most of us love the concept of perfection.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 15 Key Lessons On Managing Change Change, they say, is the only constant. With rapid globalization and advent of technology, the rate of change in society and in organizations has just multiplied. It demands change in our habits, and hence it is painful to some extent.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 30, 2013

But the magic left the development team years ago: it had been gutted by several rounds of staff cuts that took the garrulous personalities and innovative thinkers. It took the wind from development's sails: those who were still on the payroll were just happy to have kept their jobs.

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Storm Consulting

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I’ve written before in the executive challenge about why MIB’s CIO chose these two KPIs from the eight DevOps metrics that the management consulting firm insisted were necessary. Essentially it’s because they are associated with levers that allow managers and teams to focus on the smallest thing that will really make a difference.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2015

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. -- Warren Buffett For a business to have "potential", it needs opportunity, money, willingness, talent, and aptitude.

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