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

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. I’ve been in sales organizations.

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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.” Inflexibility In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations need a leader who’s both agile and comfortable with change. “If Walker, a business consultant and coach.

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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. This leaders influence also extends into talent strategy.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

That’s also why it’s such a thrilling profession, and it takes more than technical skills to successfully navigate this territory. Our conversation touched on what defines a great information security leader today and how those leadership attributes fuel results for the business. Be clear, unambiguous, and direct,” Noaman advises. “If

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

Such issues have played a large role in the rise of organizations focused on empowering and supporting women in tech roles. Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Black Girls Code.

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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Command presence while certainly having very tangible ties to leadership style or approach, is equally tied to how you are perceived by those around you. I have either been in leadership positions and/or advising leaders for as long as I can remember. Leadership, good or bad, is a contagion. Thoughts?

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JANUARY 31, 2020

He has also co-organized Nucl.ai, one of the largest conferences dedicated to the use of AI technology in the creatives industry. He is also the founder and CEO of Landing AI, an organization that helps businesses become entirely AI-driven. Andrew NG is one of the most sought-after leaders in the Machine Learning arena.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

He has also co-organized Nucl.ai, one of the largest conferences dedicated to the use of AI technology in the creatives industry. He is also the founder and CEO of Landing AI, an organization that helps businesses become entirely AI-driven. Andrew NG is one of the most sought-after leaders in the Machine Learning arena.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2024

To help Black CIO aspirants better understand the path to IT leadership, Howard University’s Center for Digital Business brought together six “trailblazing” CIOs for a Tech Titans Talk panel to share their experiences and insights working their way up in the tech industry. of all CIO positions in the US are filled by Black IT leaders.

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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. The trick for CIOs who have significant tech debt is to sell it to organization leadership , he says. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is typically an experienced IT leader who is external to the enterprise yet acts as an accountable leader and extension of the executive team, says Dave Hartman, president of IT management consulting firm Hartman Executive Advisors. “A What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs?

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Yet, as any IT leader knows, when technical infrastructure fails to meet enterprise needs, hampering productivity and innovation, it’s often time to rebuild from scratch. Restructuring can create uncertainty and stress in an organization, and it shouldn’t be used lightly or regularly, Sinclair explains.

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CIO

JULY 15, 2024

Environment, social, and governance (ESG) concerns have become increasingly important for all organizations. As many organizations shift services from in-house datacenters to external cloud services, the potential for reduced power consumption and reduced carbon emissions presents an opportunity to report improvements in ESG.

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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. But that becomes quite impersonal and doesn’t align with having leadership EQ.”

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

To master the various aspects of leadership, it’s often helpful to get professional help. As technical people move up the ranks, going from coders and admins to managers to CIOs, they need to learn how to do a lot more than build great software, connect backend systems, or build firewalls.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2024

Those challenges have IT leaders sharpening existing skills and developing new ones as ways to improve their leadership style, while others are exploring new opportunities or expanding work responsibilities to grow their executive profiles. It will come down to navigating all the human elements,” he says.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2024

Strike a balance between innovation and operational excellence In an era of creative disruption, Orla Daly, CIO at business and technical skills training firm Skillsoft, believes that IT leaders in 2024 should concentrate on achieving balance among their myriad initiatives, favoring innovation and “keep the lights on” work in turn.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Todays CDO is focused on helping the organization leverage data as a business asset to drive outcomes. When your value is not felt or understood, you are subject to changes in financial and political winds, and your ability to contribute to a high-performing organization will be limited, Voorhees says.

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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

Joy Brown’s rise through the upper echelons of digital and IT roles models what is now requisite preparation for technology leadership. Nafde was tapped at the onset to lead the technical integration of the two entities — an assignment he says served as a proof point that he was more than capable of executing larger responsibilities.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

But on the other hand, AI and generative AI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm Insight. “It Tech debt and legacy tech Technical debt and legacy tech are both big speedbumps.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Recently, I helped advise an IDC client whose security team was struggling to close thousands of vulnerabilities. That would suggest that the organization simply doesn’t have enough staff to keep up with increased rates of vulnerabilities, and/or that it would benefit from better vulnerability detection tools.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

IT leaders at organizations considering AI are under major pressure — from boards, other executives, and the market itself — to roll out major AI initiatives. US regulatory agencies are watching for exaggerated AI claims, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission announcing a settlement in March with two investment advisors.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Innovation, however, is not easy, as CIOs, their IT teams, and their organizations face plenty of obstacles that can slow or stop progress. Legacy tech and all that goes with it Legacy systems and technical debt top the list of common innovation roadblocks. That runway is missing in a lot of organizations.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Rogers: This is one of two fundamental challenges of corporate innovation — managing innovation under high uncertainty and managing innovation far from the core — that I have studied in my work advising companies and try to tackle in my new book The Digital Transformation Roadmap. The vision must be unique and specific to that organization.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

“I wanted to be on the side that could influence a better decision rather than on the side lobbying for a better decision,” Loura says of his drive toward leadership. To achieve that, Loura recognized the need to give up time performing the technical work he loved to do more of that decision-making.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most midsize and large organizations are spending significantly on cloud capabilities. The result of all this tech activity is that organizations are putting great stock in their CIOs to be true strategic leaders — not just a member of the C-Suite, but one of its loudest voices.

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments? Don’t fear attrition — fear stagnation, Ávila advises. “If If you have the right team some members will leave, but if you have the wrong team they might all stay and slowly damage your organization beyond repair.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In this role, you’ll be expected to design, code, debug, improve, and maintain software to support the organization. In this role, you’ll need to manage and oversee the technical aspects of the organization’s biggest projects and initiatives. Systems engineer.

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CIO

JUNE 27, 2024

And it starts with establishing a meaningful rationale for organizing one in the first place. Enterprises should not organize hackathons because they are in vogue or because leadership hopes to achieve vaguely defined results. But ensuring a hackathon produces tangible value for the business can be challenging.

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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

JUNE 7, 2023

Every IT organization has hidden experts. Schwarz says she prizes agile team members who understand business concepts and outcomes, and who have the ability to tell a story that translates technical thoughts into business outcomes. Haus advises IT leaders to encourage team members to learn, absorb, and collaborate. “We

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CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, an operational and IT service arm that works for the SEC, is not only a cloud customer but also a technical partner to Amazon whose expertise has enabled the advancement of the cloud infrastructure at AWS. But FINRA’s CIO remains skeptical about so-called multicloud infrastructure.

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