N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

It goes beyond the ability to bounce back from challenges; it includes an organization’s capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond, and adapt to gradual changes or sudden disruptions to survive and succeed. A resilient organization is both reactive and proactive, strengthening its ability to adapt to withstand external shocks.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The International Association of Cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSPAlliance), today announced that Agility Recovery would leverage the Unified Certification Standard audit (UCS) for Cloud and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) for its disaster recovery program. ABOUT MSPALLIANCE.

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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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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Every minute spent on code that is not quite right for the programming task of the moment counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a standstill under the debt load of an unfactored implementation, object-oriented or otherwise. The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

Around the same time of the release, Repsol appointed Juan José Casado Quintero as its new chief digital officer (CDO), another strategic move to digitally transform and accelerate the company’s strategy to become a data-driven company.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. Too many organizations, unfortunately, take these risks hoping that this time it will pay off. By Mark Hefner. Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Uganda is one of the countries creating ripples in high-profile tech programs like the Y Combinator accelerator and Google’s $50 million Africa Investment Fund, launched in October last year targeting early and growth-stage startups. Another startup, Ensibuuko , raised $1 million in seed funding last year from FCA Investments.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Most companies have transitioned to become more software-centric, and with this transformation, application programming interfaces (APIs) have proliferated. 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.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization. A good PMO drives discipline, communication, and orchestration.

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CIO

JULY 9, 2024

The concern isn’t so much whether AI will replace jobs, but what skillsets the technology will replace, and how organizations and leaders can shift human priorities accordingly. “AI Each organization must determine their risk readiness and conduct a thoughtful decision process to prioritize and choose AI use cases.”

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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. Sometimes that can be readily found within the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The role of a Chief People Officer (CPO) in modern organizations is crucial in driving the success of businesses. As the title suggests, the CPO is primarily responsible for overseeing the people aspects of the organization and aligning them with the overall strategic objectives.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2023

Where the new system’s processes are as or more effective, the implementation team will create training programs to help everyone adapt. But the CEO can’t even tell the difference between today’s IT organization and what IT did five years ago. These are the antithesis of Agile project planning and management.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

It is an overarching program aimed at renewing the basic business fundamentals that every organization should have perfected to compete at a world class level. There 7 central programs that comprise the Back-To-Basics Prescription. The 7 programs include: 1.

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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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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. Business awareness is a vital aspect of IT leadership today.

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Banking Strategic Planning Metrics Strategy 167

N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Whenever you begin business transformation work, it’s important to establish a common vocabulary that everyone in the organization can grasp and incorporate into their respective vocabularies. It influences the way work is organized, executed and informs the ways in which quality measured.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2023

To do my part in helping convince business leaders they must play a role in IT, I stepped directly into the business executive pipeline, volunteering to guest lecture in the MBA program at a local large university. I would strongly recommend that current CIO’s and their senior staff develop plans to present these ideas to their peers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This “Asking for a Friend” question came in through our Let’s Grow Leaders Learning Lab during one of our recent leadership programs. ” My team and I are having a strategic planning meeting, and I would love for you to join us for the last hour for us to share where we landed and see what insights you may have.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Beyond guiding curricular design, a strong dean acts as a catalyst for expanding faculty capabilities, nurturing student potential, and forging partnerships with corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector organizations.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We are a customer-obsessed organization and work to ensure we have the best product assortment from our partners, both in stores and online. We recently launched a reimagined version of FLX, our loyalty program, which allows customers to use points for cash for new products. Another example is in our merchandising organization.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 6, 2013

Consider, as examples, the following five jobs that are made more effective with a change management approach – a structured, systemic way to transition the elements of an organization and the people in it from their current state to one that brings about desired results. Strategic Planning. Human Resources. Sustainability.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

In every forward-thinking organization, the need for thoughtful planning around key leadership roles is undeniable. Succession planning isn’t just about filling future vacancies—it’s about proactively shaping the future of the company with a plan.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning. To guide an organization through uncertainty, IT leaders must help ensure everyone in the company is on the same page, Srivastava says. Miller says his organization is making the choice to invest in growth. “We

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

To pay for horseback riding lessons while growing up, Koinig worked in a program for children and young adults with special needs who used assistive technologies. She took a position as a senior IT program manager, then global IT director and next delegate CIO. The women will naturally surface from there.”

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The transition to post-quantum cryptography may seem daunting, but with the right resources, strategic planning, and trusted partnerships, enterprises can ensure the protection of sensitive data against future quantum cyberattacks, says Heather West, Ph.D., For smaller organizations, probably not much.

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Xebia

APRIL 3, 2023

#architecture #enterprisearchitecture #masterofscience Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy Enterprise Architecture as a topic is evolving and gaining in interest at various organizations in the Netherlands and abroad. Educational Context At the Master of Informatics (M.Sc.)

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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.

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO thinks beyond technical needs and considers the needs of the organization from a strategic business perspective.” What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs? Such fractional CIOs are essentially freelancers, often supporting multiple organizations simultaneously. What does a fractional CIO do?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Preparing Your Business for the Digital Leap An imperative initial step in achieving digital fluency for your business is to analyze your organization’s technological framework. Therefore, it is essential to establish a strong digital culture by empowering employees through skill development and digital training programs.

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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

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It requires a strategic plan that ensures seamless integration, ethical considerations, and long-term sustainability. Education programs should focus on interpreting AI data, understanding its limitations, and integrating AI insights into patient care.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A move toward the Advantage Strategy Paradigm begins with the adoption and commitment to a set of principles that guides all executives in the decisions and actions they take related to developing, planning, and executing strategy. How many more times do people have to hear it before it actually becomes a priority? That is the good news.

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The Crazy Programmer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Subjects include math, statistics, specialized programming, advanced analytics, machine learning , and AI. Working with these subjects, a data scientist uses his expertise to help generate useful insights for guiding an organization with respect to the data they have. necessary for the purpose.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. AIOps platforms are one relatively new driver of such partnerships. D ue diligence pays off.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

Today, CTOs are not only responsible for technology oversight but also play a crucial part in strategic leadership, guiding the organization through complex technological changes and aligning tech initiatives with broader business goals. They help propel organizations toward achieving their digital transformation objectives.

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