CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When I started at Novanta about five years ago, my first mission was to bring scalability to our Enterprise solutions, as well as developing a digital roadmap to modernize the technology footprint, reduce technical debt, and explore strategies to ensure that we’re growing at scale. They’re there to advise and help, which is huge.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

“This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. And that is the rub.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Since technology evolves rapidly, ensuring seamless adoption while keeping business teams aligned requires continuous change management. Its gospel truth the CIO role has seen an evolution from just the technical expert and is now central to business decisions. Remember, leadership is about lifting others as you climb.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. What the AI can do is advise the human on what decision to make, but even still, there are some significant limitations.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2024

I used figures of speech and financial terms they understood, and I kept well away from technical jargon because that wasn’t my audience. She adds that storytelling is also being used increasingly in M&A, and she’s advised on Accenture’s recent acquisition of UK creative change management consultancy, The Storytellers.

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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

Primed by a rotational program that cycled through varied assignments to build a technology-plus-business foundation, Brown was able to develop a robust process orientation in addition to skills in communications, large-scale change management, even a Master Black Belt Six Sigma certification.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The CIO also advises the executive sponsor on challenges and helps the executive sponsor select a firm specializing in ERP implementations. The executive sponsor should also be advised by an organizational change management executive, as ERP implementations result in new business processes, roles, user interfaces, and job responsibilities.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

These programs remove common barriers to change management by addressing and pre-debunking concerns about the role of artificial intelligence, Voorhees adds. Were not talking with senior leaders or the board about constructs like a data mesh or data as a product from an academic or technical standpoint, Brown & Browns Vaughan says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As I advise in my presentation “ Building a Smarter Organization Powered by Machine Learning ” there are three key focus areas successful organizations master to get value from AI: Mindset, Skillset, Toolset. Until now, a comprehensive list of AI and ML use cases that serve as meaningful references for business leaders simply did not exist.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

Companies should be proactive about acquiring AI talent, using both training programs with their current employees and hiring programs to attract outside experts, he advises. That mix of technical and soft skills is another factor shaping the shift toward reskilling for AI. Reskilling employees is a crucial step, he adds. “In

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Maintenance tasks, such as applying security and technical patches as well as maintaining the operating system and applying updates, are all performed by Oracle. She advised CIOs to do the math and weigh the trade-offs. Unlike on premises PeopleSoft systems, there is no hardware to purchase or maintain,” the FAQ noted.

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CIO

JUNE 21, 2023

But as legendary Apple designer Jony Ive once advised Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky as the company mulled cuts, “You’re not going to cut your way to innovation.” Avoid technical jargon and use concrete examples and case studies. One report estimates that 4,000 positions were eliminated by AI in May alone.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

Latest Update In April, the ladder only covered up to Technical Lead. Now it also covers the advanced titles—Staff Engineer for the engineer track and three Engineering Manager titles for the management track. Technical Lead Technical Leads are the backbone of a team. Verdict: Jury’s still out on this one.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

These pros are experts in the cloud and stay on top of the latest innovations in cloud technology to better advise business leaders. Skills: Relevant skills for this role include product management, UX design, communication and collaboration, and a strong technical background.

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CIO

JULY 14, 2023

Product design made easy The Design Hub offers thousands of proven reference designs, technical calculators and tools. Here, he admits that change management was incredibly important. As such, customers are spoiled for choice when it comes to picking the parts they want to use in their product design.

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Perficient

JULY 3, 2024

Through anecdotes and historical context, Bradie illustrates how socio-technical systems — the blend of social systems and technical systems in the workplace — are pivotal for true organizational development and change management.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

The relationships and governance structure all need to support the alignment, and this planning needs to cover not only technology but also change management, end-user enablement, and management of ongoing operations and business-as-usual activities once the technology has been delivered.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. Executives are the best business leaders in the world. When it comes to our coaching methodologies, we offer many options.

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Perficient

JUNE 9, 2023

Even reaching out to someone who knows very little about the topic who can ask the simple questions of “why” or “why not” can allow you to see the obvious when you were stuck on the technical. Legal & Regulatory: It is ill advised to ignore legal and regulatory constraints. For those determined, laws can be changed.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2023

And when performed strategically in succession as Mahon has done at Werner, such quick wins can lead to much larger business transformation over time — with less big-bang disruption and change management thanks to measurable proof of enhancement along the way.

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Samanage

AUGUST 15, 2019

A change advisory board (CAB) is a board made up of representatives from important areas within an organization like IT, finance, and facilities, including technical staff and key decision makers. . These members advise the Change Manager on the assessment, prioritization, and scheduling of changes within the IT environment.

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Capgemini

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Processes and responsibilities must be defined and adhered to throughout the AI lifecycle, covering data, models, systems, and use cases, aligning with technical, procedural, and regulatory requirements. They achieve this by identifying and developing technical and organizational measures that align with these obligations.

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Perficient

MAY 10, 2023

Therefore, it is important to evaluate the market for third-party tools, Azure Management Tools, and Terraform Enterprise to determine the best solution for your needs. We have a solution for each step of the cloud migration process and can advise you based on your needs.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 13, 2020

For example, you might have a small technical problem with Office 365. You need someone who can advise on products from Microsoft pay now and get it fixed quickly. Change Management. Change is a constant reality but it’s no less of a headache for that. External consultants are very helpful agents of change.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Studies on the liability of newness indicate that customers are less interested in fully understanding the technical benefits of a new product or offering, and instead seek trustworthy support of the initiative. About the Author. Jim Dewald is the author of Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“To meet digital transformation goals, companies must build structural ambidexterity, focus on short-term efficiency opportunities that fit the current structure and model, but also pursue medium- to long-term discontinuous expansion opportunities in business that potentially would require structural and cultural changes,” Senan advises.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

In searching for key talent to staff security teams, Lee has drawn on professional writers, project managers, and others who don’t have the formal technical qualifications and CV experience one would expect for a cyber security role. As senior people retire, we’ve taken a hit,” she says.

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CIO

JULY 1, 2024

It’s someone who can make a long-term difference,” says Ed Bouryng, president and founder of Meta, a technology and change management consultancy. She also advises CIOs to not be too narrow in their picks. They know the CIO’s vision and they’re looking to help the CIO achieve it,” he says.

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Capgemini

MAY 12, 2020

We really had to do some change management on ourselves as working with SAP S/4HANA is very different than the ECC and R/3 days. This is a pure Agile method, where we are no longer talking about BPP’s, functional specs and technical specs. We talked about this a lot with Gartner as well, and think it resonated.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

Philippe Gilet also warns about the importance of evaluating leadership readiness beyond surface-level performance, Promoting someone solely based on their technical expertise, without assessing their adaptability to new responsibilities, often results in inefficiencies and frustrations for the entire team.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Nor do they expect to get their way all the time, as the days of command-and-control leadership over all technical decisions are long gone. Schadler advises CIOs to live with it. Bring them in as advisors to you and the business, to step into the conversation and to problem-solve, Schadler says. CIOs get that.

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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. It’s the CIO’s responsibility to help those managers succeed,” says Ken Piddington, vice president and CIO of US Silica and a CIO adviser with an admitted “passion for talent development.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The wrong measures of success Even when organizations set expectations for the IT department, they often set technical expectations that dont measure the impact technology has on the business. In most cases today, its still a handshake discussion, he says. There needs to be an explicit dialogue.

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Capgemini

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It gives non-technical users the ability to interact with very advanced and powerful AI models, generating widespread excitement and driving fast adoption of this transformative tool across various functions and industries.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

We also saw this in the COVID-19 pandemic , and at the same time we learned that change is possible if it is perceived as necessary. The following article provides an overview of the most important change management methods and models. What is change management? But what exactly does change management address?

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