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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Ask CIOs about their biggest digital transformation challenges, and they’re likely to cite people issues or what experts identify as gaps in change management practices. When CIOs can’t drive change, new digital products and technology capabilities can become shelfware, and the business value is delayed or diminished.

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4 steps to connect change management and DevOps

CIO

By cross-training operations and engineering, development teams can move faster through better collaboration, making continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) a reality for organizations. Change management is an enabling framework for managing people through a change, in this case, related to a product in production.

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Generative AI’s change management challenge

CIO

BCG asked 12,898 frontline employees, managers, and leaders in large organizations around the world how they felt about AI: 61% listed curiosity as one of their two strongest feelings, 52% listed optimism, 30% concern, and 26% confidence. This is a massive number,” Bellefonds said. “We We really have to address this upskilling issue.”

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What is change management? A guide to organizational transformation

CIO

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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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO

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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Top 11 change management certifications to boost your IT career

CIO

Businesses are constantly evolving their use of technology, resulting in almost constant organizational change. That’s why it’s vital to have a strong change management plan in place, so that the company can remain agile and flexible, without interruptions or downtime. . Looking to become an agent of change at your company?

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Research Roundup: How the Pandemic Changed Management

Harvard Business Review

Researchers recently reviewed 69 articles focused on the management implications of the Covid-19 pandemic that were published between March 2020 and July 2023 in top journals in management and applied psychology.