CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

CIOs and others who manage technology teams are advised to see beyond the churn of constant upskilling, and consider what people excel at: creativity and critical thinking, business strategy, and building strong relationships that increase employee satisfaction while boosting the organization’s performance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Given this reality – and the business world’s drive to create more diverse and inclusive leadership teams – the pressure is now on companies to hold on to the few women leaders they already have. This can hinder their ability to take on leadership positions because they’re perceived to come with additional responsibilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2024

When the leadership team at Erie Insurance planned a large-scale transformation, they knew it couldn’t be an IT-only effort. The most important part of our strategy is we work as a unified team with an enterprise mindset,” he says. This program allows our IT team to have the right balance of technical and leadership skills.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Postulka is an example of a boomerang IT leader — professionals who leave a company, gain experience elsewhere, and then return in a higher tech leadership position. Moving to Loftware “was an opportunity to go retool this other team.” But in 2022, after two years at the bank, Postulka returned to Arbella as vice president and CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

We just came out of the gates fast, and we just kept solving problems,” the CIO says, noting that his team was experimenting with Azure LLMs before they were on the market. “We After kicking the tires on other Azure LLMs, software developers on Melby’s team saw development time for certain workflows dwindle from two weeks to 15 minutes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

While a leadership gap is apparent across most industries, it’s far wider among tech companies. As such, women in tech leadership still face uphill battles to secure C-suite and boardroom seats. I very clearly remember giving my opinion on a topic and feeling like people heard me but like I wasn’t really heard,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

And in spite of the spate of books that extol risk-taking as the only smart path, it’s worth remembering that their authors don’t face what might be the biggest risk CIOs have to deal with every day: executive teams adept at preaching risk-taking without actually supporting it. IT Leadership, Risk Management

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

So, like a lot of IT people who find themselves taking on corporate leadership roles, Cantrell needed help communicating differently, understanding business needs, building and managing teams, and fostering confidence in his own abilities. Now they’re in a leadership role and it’s a whole different thing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Amir Kazmi is a savvy business leader whose leadership playbook has been shaped by the fact that he’s spent one third of his career in P&L roles. On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , Kazmi unpacked his unique leadership journey, his approach to leading digital innovation, and how he brings out the best in his team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Identifying and neutralizing an emerging toxic IT culture before it can begin damaging team members, projects, and overall organization performance is every CIO’s responsibility. Sealock also advises conducting regularly scheduled anonymous team surveys, designed to reveal a budding toxic culture. A clear vision guides team direction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

When customers enter Adobe’s Creative Cloud, everything on their screen was developed by the Adobe product engineering team. Clearly, the leadership team at Starbucks had the foresight to hire a software company CIO. But it’s not. It’s actually being delivered by a web service that’s run by IT. This is a new role for us.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

Kristen Lamoreaux, president and CEO, Lamoreaux Search Lamoreaux Search Visibility defined Balaban’s experience provides a particularly valuable lesson for women in IT about the importance of building a well-recognized professional brand to advance their careers and bring gender equity to corporate leadership.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When you’ve spent your career mastering complex technologies, stepping into a leadership role might not be the first item on your wish list. But how do you prepare others on your team for this next career step? I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

In azienda, Peña ha lavorato per quasi 13 anni in ruoli orientati al cliente e, più recentemente, ha costruito, in quest’ambito, un nuovo team di gestione. La leadership di IFS ha deciso che poteva essere “parte della sua strategia di crescita, anziché soltanto una delle cose di cui doversi occupare”, dice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

As a result, my first job was putting together a new leadership team that would allow us to achieve our growth goals. The team and I agreed that we weren’t going to do that. We’re going to assemble the best team we could to deliver on the promises that we made. Having a strong team enables you to thrive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Because what’s frequently missed in the perennial leadership vs. management fracas is that management is about getting work out the door. Leadership is an important collection of techniques managers use to get the people in their organization to embrace the direction they’re trying to set. So why does leadership get all the buzz?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This expertise is important for evaluating technical solutions, making informed decisions, and effectively communicating with the technical team,” Kowsari says. “It For LLMs, this means identifying their practical uses, enhancing the skillset of your team, and ensuring their utilization of AI is both ethical and free of bias.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

Swanson’s extensive and diverse leadership background has been pivotal in defining his leadership style, which Swanson describes as leading people the way he wants to be led. I believe in humble servant leadership — I’m here to support my teams,” he says. No matter what happens in the organization, the buck stops with me.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Fagan has held many senior IT leadership roles for well known brands in Australia, Europe, USA and Asia. But when it comes to leadership, a key attribute of a successful modern day CIO at any organization is having a good business focus. Change Management, CIO, CIO Leadership Live, IT Leadership

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Depending on the business expert I’m listening to and the day of the week, I’m told three truths: Good employees who work together as a team outperform great employees who don’t. Great employees can and do pull along mediocre teams. Or, each team member has a relationship with every member (n) excluding themselves (-1).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. We discussed how many agile teams focus on rituals without truly understanding the manifesto’s objectives or the organization’s goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What is transformational leadership? The transformational leadership approach encourages, inspires, and motivates employees to innovate and create the change necessary to shape the future success of the company. For the latest insights on leadership, sign up for our newsletters. ]. . | Transformational leadership theory.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2023

For understanding teams “CTOs and CIOs who work for organizations that are struggling to deliver value sustainably will greatly benefit from reading Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019) by Manuel Pais and Matt Skelton,” says Peter Kreslins Jr.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

In his keynote speech at the Hamburg IT Strategy Days in February, Weber looked back on those first three years and the journey he and his team took during that time. He’d like to continue modernizing and reworking in the cloud, as well as build a product-centric organization, away from traditional service teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Henkel and SAP co-innovation team worked closely together to build and scale the tool, which had to be able to handle more than two billion planning nodes. At the time, the team was focusing on traditional AI, using machine learning capabilities to build a recommendation engine that could help end users perform TPO on the fly. “In

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The agile mindset allows teams to push through setbacks and see failures as opportunities to learn, rather than reasons to stop. Agile teams have a resilience that’s critical to success when trying to build and implement AI solutions to problems. Is there a team or forum in place to research and support innovation across the business?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This often results in teams feeling pressure to dive into implemention, miss key communication steps, and skip building a change management program at the start of a digital transformation initiative. There’s too much at stake for CIOs to limit learning programs to skill development and to leave leadership development for CHROs to oversee.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

To help close this digital maturity gap and drive digital transformation as a core competency, CIOs and their leadership colleagues must establish and enlist digital transformation leaders across the enterprise. Provide teams with too much autonomy, and they may not have the knowledge and skills to implement or make optimal decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

Consultants recognize that program leadership is not naïve to the nature of these executive-level relationships and are likely to flex this relationship leverage during commercial negotiations with the program-level team. This is appropriate and common across providers. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“Focusing on innovation and tech deployment helps pinpoint and eliminate obstacles that impede tech teams,” she says, adding that while measuring software development production is essential for IT digitalization, it also requires a careful rollout to maintain a healthy team dynamic. Another framework Mann has seen in use is DevEx.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Assuming the candidate passes muster on those counts, the individual can expect very positive short- and long-term impacts on their careers by taking up this emerging IT leadership role, he says. Coto typically oversees AI-related initiatives and strategies within the units that his team serves. What is a chief AI officer?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But for all the features and functionality these suites provide to team members trying their best to collaborate, they don’t help us stay sane the way an in-person work environment does. It’s a leadership training blind spot. IT Leadership, Remote Work, Staff Management A video call serves this purpose well enough.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2022

CIO Nicole Raimundo Coughlin has always tried to look at her IT team holistically, listen to their needs, and provide them with opportunities to learn and grow. Our Teams and Zoom meetings put us inside the lives of our employees in their homes,” says Coughlin, CIO for the Town of Cary, N.C.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 19, 2023

As software and data move to the center of a company’s products and services, the background and skills of the executive leadership team must evolve. To this end, the IT and software teams need to be tied closer together. With both groups on one team, we can design both for manufacturing and for services.

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