thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 8, 2022

Learn about the three principles of strategic planning and how they can focus your efforts. What is a strategic plan, and why is it important? A strategic plan defines what your organization stands for. It defines the market where you compete and how you compete in that market.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This division often creates silos in organizations. Without close integration between business and technology, organizations risk misalignment with strategic objectives and technological execution. Architects help organizations remain agile, innovative, and aligned by bridging gaps between strategy and technology.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Foremost, the responsibilities of the Chief Marketing Officer have transformed significantly. Today’s CMOs aren’t just the masterminds behind ad campaigns or marketing projects—they’re key players in driving business innovation , focusing on customer needs, and harnessing technology. A CMO wears many hats in the boardroom.

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2025

These core leadership capabilities empower executives to navigate uncertainty, lead with empathy and foster resilience in their organizations. As Nancy Giordano highlights in Leadering: The ways visionary leaders play bigger , effective leadership and change management require attention to the subtle cultural shifts within an organization.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

For CIOs leading enterprise transformations, portfolio health isnt just an operational indicator its a real-time pulse on time-to-market and resilience in a digital-first economy. Understanding and tracking the right software delivery metrics is essential to inform strategic decisions that drive continuous improvement.

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Perficient

MARCH 10, 2025

As speed, team productivity, and delivering valuable tools become critical priorities, GenAI has become a necessity for organizations striving to stay ahead. Its essential for organizations to aspire to lead in innovation and keep up with competitors.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 12, 2021

When strategic planning, a SWOT helps you define your business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. For strengths and weaknesses, those are typically within your own organization, capabilities you have or don’t have. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2016

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. Strategic Planning 2.0

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At the core of Atento’s challenges was difficulty managing the disparate technologies and customer processes that emerged from their organic international growth. Without a strategic plan in place to create uniform and flexible environments and workflows, this growth revealed limitations in how Atento delivers innovation to its customers.

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CO2 Business Leadership

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Strategic Planning At CO2 Coaching , we view strategic planning as a process of advance decision-making and alignment of minds. When people are aligned and prepared to make decisions, organizations and their employees act purposefully and swiftly. The structure of strategic planning is critical to its success.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unfactored implementation, object-oriented or otherwise. Similarly, the conceptof technical debt allows you to think about (and even quantify) the tradeoffs involved in software development under real-world markets and pressure.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

By leveraging their technical knowledge alongside a deeper understanding of the business, they can differentiate their organizations and position them for long-term success. This article explores three critical areas where CIOs can transform their roles from operational leaders to strategic visionaries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Founded by Gerald Otum in 2014, the startup’s proprietary digital infrastructure helps organizations like credit unions and savings groups automate their operations. Multi-service apps like Bolt, Uber and SafeBoda are already active in the motorcycle-ride hailing and delivery market.

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CIO

JUNE 18, 2024

Some organizations have been using traditional AI with ERP systems for years, for example, for forecasting market trends or optimizing supply chains. Now they merely review AI content and can get back to more strategic tasks,” he says. However, he estimates employee time savings of 20% or more. Some failure should be expected.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The reason the analyst’s view of the market is so unsatisfying isn’t hard to decipher. Their objective is to break this massive market down into evermore narrow categories so that they can compare vendors and create the nice little graphs that every tech vendor clamors to be included within. It literally made my head hurt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo and Brian Campbell started San Diego-based Mosaic in 2019 after meeting at Palantir Technologies, where they worked on building out that company’s finance organization to 2,500 people and over $750 million in revenue. It also wants to focus on its go-to-market strategy. “We

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It goes beyond simply offering advice—entrepreneurial coaching provides a well-rounded approach that hones essential skills, sharpens strategic thinking, and cultivates a mindset ready for success. Coaching sharpens essential leadership skills such as decision-making, strategic thinking, and people management.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

The feeling is supported by data: 60% of organizations are unsatisfied with the data insights they have today with only 35% leveraging data insights daily for business decisions. Notably, 67% of organizations are struggling with separate data solutions for different environments, and in most cases, this is due to inefficient data management.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Digital technology has become a guiding light in these uncertain times, taking on a more prominent role in companies’ strategic plans. Technology, therefore, is not merely a convenient tool but an essential commodity that requires strategic allocation and management in the modern business landscape.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts. Here’s how to develop this important IT muscle.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

HubSpot is a strategic backer: Reachdesk integrates with a number of CRM and other business support tools, including HubSpot’s, to help those sending gifts manage their campaigns in a more organized way. The third area is the wide world of gift cards, with no physical boxes at all. The idea is to expand all three in the future.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Chief Strategy Officers are crucial for shaping an organization’s strategic vision and ensuring long-term success. They develop and execute initiatives that align with the company’s goals, focusing on market trends , competitive threats, and emerging opportunities.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most large and medium organizations are either of the categories which are: those who have already embraced SD-WAN, those in the process of implementation, and those contemplating the transition. Strategic Considerations for SD-WAN Implementation For organizations in India contemplating SD-WAN adoption, meticulous planning is imperative.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

million in funding to develop its tool for what happens after you’ve collected a bunch of data, namely assembling and organizing it so the data can be analyzed. The closing of $213 million in Series C funding is giving what Otto called “enough of a cash cushion” for Astronomer to advance some of its strategic plans.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Over its more than 130 years, Tubos Reunidos has gone through various phases of modernization and expansion, including incorporating new technologies and more efficient production processes to stay competitive in a fast-paced market. The need to modernize has only intensified over the last decade.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

They are responsible for managing and optimizing all revenue generation processes within an organization, and their decisions can significantly impact the company’s financial success. CROs oversee marketing, sales, and customer relationship teams to ensure they work together effectively.

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CIO

JULY 8, 2022

By operations, we mean work that fixes or hones the processes and tools already employed in an organization. In many organizations, the same group, team, or even individual handles both responsibilities, which is fine. In many organizations, the same group, team, or even individual handles both responsibilities, which is fine.

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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. Strategic Planning: Implementing structured approaches to achieve organizational goals.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 31, 2024

These qualities make interim executives invaluable assets, ensuring that organizations continue to evolve and grow smoothly during transitional periods. As a result, they can provide customized interim executive solutions that effectively address the specific challenges that each organization is currently facing.

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CIO

MAY 9, 2024

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence — especially generative AI — is prompting many organizations to hire or promote a chief AI officer (CAIO). But the ranks of the CAIO are expected to increase at enterprise organizations as well in the coming years. Once hired, CAIOs are typically viewed as critical members of the C-suite.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Interim executives are highly skilled and experienced individuals brought in at short notice to lead organizations during times of crisis, management transitions, or to spearhead major strategic initiatives. They provide rapid and effective leadership solutions during uncertain times and offer guidance to organizations.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

Federal Reserve System CIO Ghada Ijam, for instance, says on a good day, 60% of her time is spent on strategic planning and the rest keeping the business running. While there can be a lot of attention on the new shiny strategic projects, the everyday operational matters can go unrecognized until there’s a crisis.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Karl Mattson, field CISO at Noname Security, an API security solution, says APIs are the foundation of nearly every CIO’s strategic plans to deliver business value. Good governance is the telemetry on that investment, from which operational and tactical plans can be adjusted and focused to achieve strategic objectives,” he says.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

That means using the technology to improve a company’s marketing, sales, customer success, and RevOps: the process of aligning all three operations across the full customer life cycle in a way that drives growth, improves efficiency, and breaks down silos. But we’re certainly looking at AI as an organization across our lines of business.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Take, for example, how IT’s strategic planning process paved the way for smoothly deploying personal computers throughout the enterprise. So nobody was looking when a bunch of independent enthusiasts and marketing-department renegades figured out that HTML was pretty easy to figure out. Oh, that’s right. Expert No. Expert No.

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