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

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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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale. Dismiss obvious improvements as “local optimization” Use latest trends to tie up resources. Pivot frequently.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

While there are scores of ML-related resources available across platforms, it might get quite overwhelming for beginners. 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. Yann LeCun.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

While there are scores of ML-related resources available across platforms, it might get quite overwhelming for beginners. 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. Yann LeCun.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Recently, I helped advise an IDC client whose security team was struggling to close thousands of vulnerabilities. Christopher Tozzi , an adjunct research advisor for IDC, is senior lecturer in IT and society at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Shankar notes that AI can also equip IT teams with the data-driven insights needed to optimize resource allocation, prioritize upgrades, and plan for the future. 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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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. 1 challenge cited by CIOs when asked what most often forces them to redirect resources away from strategic tasks, with 59% saying as much.

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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. This is a very long laborious process.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Legacy tech and all that goes with it Legacy systems and technical debt top the list of common innovation roadblocks. First, it prioritizes promising ideas and funnels resources to those ideas, not weaker proposals. This can lead to wasted resources and initiatives that fizzle out before delivering any value.”

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Generally, the CEO and the key leadership team will first set the OKR of the company, then the management teams or departments will follow (ensuring that their OKRs are aligned to that of the company’s). But it isn’t always easy for some teams, especially those in the highly technical roles, such as developers. Better Use of Resources.

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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.

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CIO

JUNE 6, 2024

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. Aside from sharing time zones with America, this center would cost less than US-based resources and provide access to more diverse talent.

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CIO

MARCH 30, 2023

With digital technology increasingly vital to business, the CIO role is quickly evolving, placing IT leaders under threat from business executives who offer the blend of business and technical savvy necessary to lead transformational strategies in the future. Here IT is taking an advisory role and LOBs are taking the lead.

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

The CCSO provides leadership for the Internet2 cyber security program through strong working relationships and collaboration across the staff and community, including policy and operational areas. Advises executive staff on risk management issues to ensure the appropriate application of controls.

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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. External peers in your network that have performed similar [restructuring] efforts are also a great resource for information on approaches and pitfalls to avoid,” he adds.

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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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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

There’s an industry-wide push to reduce technical and data debt and reallocate those resources toward building the future, Conyard says. “CIOs To achieve this goal, “CIOs need to treat the assessment and analysis of data as a scientific discipline,” he advises. IT Leadership, IT Strategy.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2007

My role is to work as part of the team to (1) understand related technologies and technical opportunities, (2) understand and help drive alignment around a vision of where the business should go, and (3) mesh those together to help make disciplined, proactive technical decisions.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To that end, CIO.com asked a half-dozen longtime IT leaders — current and former CIOs as well as consultants and executive advisers — to share the questions they think CIOs should ask themselves to determine whether they’re sailing to success or about to dash onto the rocks. But the signs are there, for those who take the time to look.

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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

Today, the conversation has turned to when they work and the number of hours required, says Brian Kropp, vice president of human-resources research for advisory firm Gartner. If we do nothing, our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts will worsen” in terms of the gender wage gap and a less diverse leadership pipeline, he says.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As such, customers should prepare their organizations to undertake an extensive, holistic evaluation of RISE from a technical, operational, financial, and commercial perspective. Midlevel leadership should not underestimate SAP’s ability to position their vision, successes, and $2.2B

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This can lead less experienced managers to have difficulty balancing technical requirements and business objectives, he says. And the best way to learn the necessary skills, he says, is to develop good connections in the company with smart leaders who can advise when things get tough. “If

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

But, notes Lobo, “in all geographies, finding well-rounded leadership and experienced technical talent in areas such as legacy technologies, cybersecurity, and data science remains a challenge.” CIOs shared some of their best practices and advice: Enlist non-IT resources. The net result?

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2022

Systers is still functioning today and is now the “largest email community of women in technical computing” with more than 8,500 members worldwide. Black Girls Code is an organization that aims to support young and pre-teen girls of color to help give them the resources they need to succeed in STEM fields. Black Girls Code. TechLadies.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

In the legal industry, leadership isn’t just about managing the status quo—it’s about driving change, shaping strategy, and guiding firms through an increasingly complex landscape. While technical competence is a given, what really sets great leaders apart is their ability to connect legal strategy with broader business objectives.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. The best arrangement is to have a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business unit or group requesting those resources.”

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CIO

MARCH 22, 2023

To provide some indirect counsel for first-time CIOs, we asked IT leaders to have a quiet word with their younger selves when they first took on a senior IT leadership role. Give yourself the gift of time Some CIOs pondered how they managed that most precious resource: time. “I Don’t get bogged down in the technical details.

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

The new ladder focuses on teamwork, peer leadership, and maintainable code. Latest Update In April, the ladder only covered up to Technical Lead. They've begun to demonstrate peer leadership skills and are developing their abilities as generalizing specialists. Technical Lead Technical Leads are the backbone of a team.

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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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Evolution4all

MARCH 10, 2019

Normally, the CEO and the key leadership team of the company will set OKRs, then the departments or management teams will follow suit by setting their OKRs in line with that of the company. This may prove to be a challenge for some teams, especially those that perform highly technical jobs, such as software developers.

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