CIO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Despite a strong focus by organizations to deliver a more inclusive workplace, change is not happening as quickly or as widely as it should, says Cindy Sieberts, country director for South Africa for digital payments gateway MFS Africa. But there’s a lot of work to be done. Akhona Qengqe, GM of KFC Africa, agrees.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Part of Baltic Rezo, both companies provide enterprises in the Baltics, Northern Europe, and beyond with high-performance data centers and a robust suite of cloud computing and IT solutions. But at the end of the day, it’s not just about using renewable sources of energy, it’s also about using all energy in a more efficient manner.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2013

Low energy abounds. I’ve been asking this question everywhere this week (my organization, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter). 10 Energy Zappers 1. The post 10 Ways to Zap Energy and Squash Enthusiasm appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. And yet, contagious yawns permeate the workplace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2024

Family is one of the most important things in most people’s lives, across cultures and geographies. Instead, in the past, family has been mostly seen as competing with work for an employee’s finite resources, like their time and energy. Yet, the idea that family can be motivational at work has been overlooked.

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Deep automation transforms enterprises into living organisms, integrating technologies, processes, and data for self-adjustment. Here are some key hurdles and strategies to overcome them: Foster an automation culture by involving employees early and showcasing benefits. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred in making it through the past few years. One thing that is clear is we will need to partner and work across industries to solve truly big problems that all organizations are facing.”

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

These seasoned professionals step into senior roles within an organization on a temporary basis, engaging in strategic decision-making, crisis management, turnaround schemes, or filling gaps due to sudden departures or absences of incumbent executives. How do Interim Executives Influence a Firm’s Strategic Direction?

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Xebia

JANUARY 15, 2024

We have seen organizations where it wasn’t. What do we need to work on to create the same circumstances in your organization? Picking up on learnings from many dozens of organizations, in this article we suggest five tips to ease your portfolio management. Let’s switch glasses and look at the topic from a greater distance.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2024

But what does it take to build a culture that embraces gen AI? Learn how she, her team, and the executive committee create a “gen AI ready” culture. These huge productivity savings also drive sustainability improvement by allowing us to minimize energy consumption. AI is not about layering tools into the organization.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

CIOs and others who manage technology teams are advised to see beyond the churn of constant upskilling, and consider what people excel at: creativity and critical thinking, business strategy, and building strong relationships that increase employee satisfaction while boosting the organization’s performance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this episode of the Leadership without Losing Your Soul Podcast, our guest, Chinazom Nwabueze, discusses the importance of mental health and its connection to overall wellbeing and performance. Chinazom also highlights the importance of leaders modeling mental fitness and creating a culture that supports and encourages it.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In order to create a culture where product teams own the reliability of their offerings, the Digital Payments team made seven instrumental changes: Define, measure, and reveal product goals : We broke down and extended key reliability goals to each product area. My team at Discover Financial Services is responsible for digital payments.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Navigating the complexities of leadership and management styles requires more than conventional wisdom; it requires a deep understanding of how different management styles impact an organization. Support Risk-Taking: Create a culture that embraces experimentation and learning from failures.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In the age of digital transformation, the CIO’s role is increasingly central to business, focused on driving growth and establishing a new digital culture across the organization. It’s important for the CEO to make his presence felt and support the new culture.” Even moving from a paper document to a file can be challenging.

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Xebia

APRIL 14, 2023

Scope 3 : All other indirect emissions from activities of an organization from sources it doesn’t control. Drill-downs can be made based on summary, by geography, by service, by statistics over time and by the path to 100% renewable energy. Each grid is different and not all grids are equally using renewable energy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Beyond technology, a visionary CSO builds a diversity, equity, and inclusion culture, recognizing that diverse perspectives drive better decision-making and more robust sustainability efforts. This might involve choosing eco-friendly materials, reducing waste in the production process, or implementing energy-efficient practices.

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CIO

JULY 30, 2024

Organizations are under pressure to demonstrate commitment to an actionable sustainability strategy to meet regulatory obligations and to build positive market sentiment. Verizon has allocated $1 billion in investment funding to support renewable energy. Starbucks has committed to redesign cafés to improve accessibility.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

They are the bridge between departments, weaving the voice of the customer into every touchpoint and interaction, ultimately positioning the organization for market success. They foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) that strengthens external customer relationships and enriches the internal employee experience.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Here’s how a global executive search firm can ultimately allow a Board to operate at its peak performance and empower it to realize its most ambitious goals. They stand by the organization and the Board to support the interview process and work to vet candidates. What do executive board search firms do?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

With 2022 now in our rearview mirror, we still reflect on a time marked by global upheavals, like the Russia – Ukraine war, to the skyrocketing energy prices and global inflation. Cybercriminals specifically target sectors such as healthcare, energy, and transportation, recognizing the significant consequences at stake.

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CIO

JUNE 3, 2024

You will spend on clusters with high-bandwidth networks to build almost HPC [high-performance computing]-like environments,” warns Peter Rutten, research vice president for performance-intensive computing at IDC. Before a job is complete, an HITL examines output for accuracy and cultural relevance.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix. There is little doubt that the best performing firms on the planet have exciting and healthy cultures – think Google, Southwest and Nike – while other organizations seem to be in a constant state of struggle to reach their full potential.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations are facing an overwhelming amount of change. Market declines, increased competition and industry culture shifts all play an enormous role in how an organization functions. Most importantly, change management requires the organization to“Be the change you want to see in the world’.’

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback. Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. This leadership post covers some of the most popular performance feedback tools and techniques that we teach in our leadership development programs.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

Forward-thinking organizations understand the need to go beyond mere regulatory compliance. Incorporating sustainability into the core of the business strategy can help create a company culture that values the environment. This involves integrating sustainable practices into daily operations, decision-making, and long-term planning.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

As a result, CIOs are looking at ways of doing more with less, while continuing to digitally transform their organizations. With these factors in mind, here are five steps CIOs and IT leaders can take to drive innovation and future-proof their organization. What kind of market penetration are we targeting among users?

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Xebia

JUNE 21, 2021

Organizations need to rapidly respond to a changing world. In a knowledge intensive world, pressured by hypercompetition, new forms of organization are required to keep up. John Child in his book Organizations describes the concepts of integration and coordination, mechanisms to enable delivery of value. In simpler terms.

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

The energy sector is in a consistent state of transformation—both digital and otherwise—but the word “transformation” can be thrown around loosely, as if it just happens with an organization. Change is challenging, and maintaining high-performance and diverse teams is fundamental to deliver success. “A They don’t suit everybody.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2023

For organizations seeking a collaborative win-win approach to outsourcing, the Vested sourcing business model is worth consideration. For example, a buying organization might want “outcomes,” but the contract spells out dozens or even hundreds of service level agreement metrics instead.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We spent some time afterwards delving into Ewing’s approach to building a high-performance culture and how that’s fostering digital enablement at the more than 130-year-old company. As a function of that, I need to have my distribution curve from a performance perspective skewed to the right. My mantra is, I play to win.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Companies also saw the conversation surrounding Chandler’s tweet and reached out, asking whether she could help them recruit Black talent into their organizations. They felt like those companies were being performative. But Chandler says this is more about people’s networks, and their inability to step outside their comfort zones.

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One organization at the forefront of clinical care and innovation is DaVita, one of the largest providers of kidney care services, with more than 2,800 outpatient dialysis centers in the US and close to 400 outpatient dialysis centers in 11 countries worldwide. IT culture is important today, especially in retaining and recruiting talent.

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CIO

AUGUST 31, 2023

CIO Kirk Ball is known for being a strategic executive capable of driving innovative thinking across the organization. How can we get better at defining what digital transformation means within our specific organizations, and why does it matter? A digital transformation also involves fundamental cultural change.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

Even with inflation, high energy costs, and the invasion of Ukraine, IT hiring continued at a record-setting pace, but keeping tech talent still poses challenges. Organizations are also considering relaxing the 40-hour workweek. Concerns about a looming recession have not derailed the booming IT job market.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Titanium Intelligent Solutions, a global SaaS IoT organization, even saved one customer over 15% in energy costs across 50 distribution centers , thanks in large part to AI. With real-time AI, organizations aim to provide valuable insights during the moment of urgency; it’s about making instantaneous, business-driven decisions.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Guide using a North Star: “ Without vision, the people perish.” – Proverbs 29:18 When Lillie was a commander in the Air Force, he had 130 people under him performing mission-critical communications support to space assets during Desert Storm. So, why spend time and energy detailing such an outline? “My

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

That has the potential to increase dramatically as organizations embrace AI, the internet of things, blockchain, and other resource-intensive emerging technologies. Public cloud data centers, by contrast, are 93% more energy-efficient and produce 98% lower GHG emissions than on-premises datacenters, according to Microsoft and WSP Global.

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