N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements. Instead, it has evolved into an indispensable leadership position encompassing digital innovation, organizational change, and business model reinvention.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

One of the world’s largest risk advisors and insurance brokers launched a digital transformation five years ago to better enable its clients to navigate the political, social, and economic waves rising in the digital information age. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As a result, technical debt starts to accumulate. I think the really key thing is to recognize it, find a strategy to work with it, and don’t let it build to a point where it just feels like you’re going to take a massive hit on productivity.”. Any suggestions on strategies and how to help our company stand out? And accumulate.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Role of Board Advisor Coaching in Shaping Success Board advisor coaching plays a critical role in shaping the success of organizations and their leaders. In today’s complex and rapidly changing business landscape, executives need more than technical expertise to thrive.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

With emerging technologies like Gen-AI keeping organizations in a flurry of new implementations, a rapidly shifting CIO role, new innovations testing budgets and adaptability of organizations and increasing competition, a competent CIO is the ace that can change the game.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

Interestingly, despite the significance of technical debt as a cost concern and an inhibitor to improving security and implementing innovation (like AI), it ranks much lower on the list of immediate priorities for many organizations (20%). For CIOs, balancing technical debt with other strategic priorities is a constant challenge.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

The best cybersecurity leaders are not only intensely aware of this reality; they’re also intentionally focused on developing and implementing strategies for thriving in a VUCA world and creating a pipeline of future-ready cyber leaders to stay ahead of ongoing disruption. Be clear, unambiguous, and direct,” Noaman advises. “If

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

To stay on top of both old and new challenges, IT chiefs should evaluate their current business and technology strategies and, when necessary, adjust them to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic practices. Doing so requires a robust data management strategy. Assume that attacks are inevitable.”

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

It will struggle to act autonomously, meet evolving priorities, and innovate. Perkins advises IT leaders to adopt three principles to strike the right balance between cost, productivity, digital maturity, and the means to build long-term capabilities. Reserve the three-letter technical acronyms for your IT colleagues.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Now, the CIO is more likely to be known as the chief innovation officer, responsible for driving digital transformation within the organization.” Generally lacking visibility beyond their enterprise, CIOs seldom focus on personal career strategies and opportunities. Walker, a business consultant and coach.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. In addition, business stakeholders often demand fast results.

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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.” Future-proofing work now becomes a mandate and an opportunity to innovate. Avoid technical jargon and use concrete examples and case studies.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Primarily, his thought leadership is focused on leveraging Big Data, Machine Learning, and Data Science to drive and enhance an organization’s business, address business challenges, and lead innovation. She is currently serving as a Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, advising on various data strategies and investing opportunities.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Primarily, his thought leadership is focused on leveraging Big Data, Machine Learning, and Data Science to drive and enhance an organization’s business, address business challenges, and lead innovation. She is currently serving as a Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, advising on various data strategies and investing opportunities.

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Less than half of CIOs say they possess the required technical skills, only 4 in 10 believe they have the required security infrastructure, and just one-third think their organizations possess the right computing infrastructure. Today’s CIOs are working in a tornado of innovation.

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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. For the rest, gen AI will greatly augment the power and value of the role of the CIO, he says.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Tech debt is boring Company boards and CEOs are putting pressure on CIOs to find innovative uses for AI, and the need for better cybersecurity never goes way.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2024

Cairn is bucking this trend: Gupta says that startups are a key part of the organization’s strategy. He gives the example of a founding team that may have technical expertise but lack domain knowledge about your sector. Gupta advises enterprises to go with one of two approaches. The first is the simplest.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states. What does a fractional CIO do?

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Recent advancements in AI have further reshaped and expanded the CDOs responsibilities and organizational impact, placing new emphasis on strategic innovation. A strong CDO who can communicate and drive the strategy is essential for getting value out of these AI investments. What are we missing? What should we remove or change?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Today, technology must be perceived as a business partner and an innovation agent,” Tweedie says. “IT Advise and collaborate. Then collaborate to develop an action plan,” advises Suneet Dua, products and technology chief growth officer at business advisory firm PwC. Support the current business strategy.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

When asked which challenges most often force IT to redirect time and focus away from strategy and innovation tasks, CIOs most commonly cited staff and skills shortages, changing business conditions, and addressing security threats. Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

By using these powerful models, you can enhance your applications with advanced NLP capabilities, accelerate your development process, and deliver innovative solutions to your users. Throughout this post, we provide detailed code examples and explanations for each step, helping you seamlessly integrate Amazon Bedrock FMs into your code base.

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CIO

JUNE 27, 2024

Typically associated with startups and small developer teams, hackathons are becoming increasingly popular with enterprise CIOs as a means for jump-starting innovation. So actually, we want to spark IT’s passion for innovation through hackathons,” Tsai says. It was] the same in our company. Then we work out, ‘What are we going to do?

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

In one, he mocked up a cover of the Financial Times , showing the company’s stock soaring and praising its technologically enabled innovations. I used figures of speech and financial terms they understood, and I kept well away from technical jargon because that wasn’t my audience. These are, fundamentally, storytelling skills.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. Microsoft is committed to ensuring we offer robust and innovative solutions to meet these needs. In 2020, SAP announced an innovation commitment for SAP S/4HANA until the end of 2040.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

He believes he can demystify digital transformation and put corporate leaders on the right path as they rethink their business strategy for the digital era. Managing innovation and growth in a fluid environment is one of the biggest challenges for companies. Where does the CIO role fit in the scheme of things?

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Yet there’s now another, cutting-edge tool that can significantly spur both team productivity and innovation: artificial intelligence. Identify potential issues By analyzing vast amounts of data, AI can identify potential technical and security issues long before they can escalate into system outages.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

A great amount of talent is cultivated in the military, which has spawned innovative cyber, AI and machine-learning companies. Same as VC funds are deeply acquainted with Silicon Valley, tech investors cannot ignore this hub of innovation that has produced global market leading companies and serial entrepreneurs. are at risk.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Everest Group. Staff augmentation and outsourcing are nothing new.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

The 2022 State of the CIO research confirmed talent acquisition and retention strategies are a key issue for CIOs, cited by 38% of respondents, with cybersecurity skills, data science/analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in top demand.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

To assure potential employers that they can meet those diverse challenges, CIO candidates must demonstrate that they excel at a wide range of leadership skills and activities, Wald says, including the following: Communications: Today’s CIO candidates much demonstration an ability to engage and gain consensus from business and technical stakeholders.

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

Don’t fear attrition — fear stagnation, Ávila advises. “If Neglecting soft skills Focusing solely on technical skills and ignoring other essential professional abilities, such as business acumen, communication management, and leadership, is a serious mistake, says Sharon Mandell, CIO at Juniper Networks. Perspectives matter, he notes.

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