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 20, 2025

As the title lays out, the fact that women still earn less than their male counterparts for equal work is a big reason why women leave, says Lamoreaux, who is also founder of SIM Women, which promotes communication, mentorship, leadership, and career development among the female members of the Society for Information Management.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Generally lacking visibility beyond their enterprise, CIOs seldom focus on personal career strategies and opportunities. They need to become more creative in their delegation of responsibilities so that more time can be devoted to pushing experimentation,” Mains advises. IT Leadership It’s always worth the effort.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

“While building looks extremely attractive in the long run, it requires leadership with a strong appetite for risk over an extended time period,” writes ML engineer Tanmay Chopra. seed deck TechCrunch+ roundup: No-code MVP strategy, hiring under scrutiny, A/B growth testing by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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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

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

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 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. Kickstart a vacuous “AI strategy” that seems plausible at the surface.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. 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.

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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. Fractional, or contract, CIOs are becoming an important and increasingly relied on niche in the IT executive job market.

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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

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.” But their role isn’t going away.

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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. When your leadership has gotten accustomed to the highly outsourced workforce composition,” explains Perkins, “there are challenges in shifting the cost profile.”

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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 29, 2024

Joy Brown’s rise through the upper echelons of digital and IT roles models what is now requisite preparation for technology leadership. Now modern IT leaders are expected to have breadth and depth of experience across the broad spectrum of technology domains along with an innate sensibility to craft and lead business strategy. “Up

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CIO

JULY 15, 2024

As organizations increasingly outsource to cloud service providers for many technical and financial benefits, the power consumed and carbon produced are now controlled by the provider, wherever its cloud datacenters may be. We advise CIOs to be skeptical and seek independent verification of carbon emissions for their cloud providers.

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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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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

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

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

MARCH 14, 2024

An MBA exposes IT leaders to critical business competencies by widening their perspective, developing leadership skills, and establishing management skills,” says Pranu Bhargava, executive vice president of technology at AllCampus, a company that partners with universities to offer online degree and certificate programs.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Advise and collaborate. Then collaborate to develop an action plan,” advises Suneet Dua, products and technology chief growth officer at business advisory firm PwC. Before initiating a technical discussion, it’s important to consider the recipient’s perspective. Support the current business strategy.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

A strong CDO who can communicate and drive the strategy is essential for getting value out of these AI investments. Principals Rajesh Arorasays his leadership team is taking a two-tiered approach. Its been very helpful as we develop the strategy because we can ask, Does it fit for the vision of the company? What are we missing?

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

Moreover, they agree that those characteristics as well as several career-related strategies they also share have helped them advance their careers. Most also talk about the desire to influence strategies and decision-making as well as to have an impact. “I He credits several strategies for his success.

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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. 1 challenge listed.

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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 30, 2024

Beware the fact free-for-all that is the world today Daniel Patrick Moynihan, four-term Senator of New York, United Nations ambassador, and adviser to three Presidents is remembered for popularizing the aphorism, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” This makes sense to me.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

From determining career paths, applying for the role, and understanding trends in AI, the Next CIO cohort have gained a clearer understanding of what c-suite technology leadership entails and identifying which skills they need to succeed. However, the transition from CIO-1 to CIO entails a significant mindset shift.

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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. The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

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. Take care Bracewell’s Shargel advises companies to be careful about making broad claims about their AI capabilities.

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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

JULY 2, 2024

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. “Many AI systems use machine learning, constantly learning and adapting to become even more effective over time,” he says.

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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. CIOs think a lot about technical skills, but they also need to think about having non-technical skills. Very often, such a person is the CIO. The third pillar is culture.

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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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