Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When interviewing for an entry-level role, would you know if you had a future Digital Trailblazer sitting before you?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When I was CIO at a construction industry data, analytics, and media company, I was deeply interested in how technology and sustainability would drive the industry’s future. Could a new smart building technology or a green innovation lead to funding new construction that improves people’s experiences and enables a more sustainable future?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Digital transformation is hard work, from developing a strategy to leading a culture change. CIOs, CMOs, and CDOs quickly realize that executing digital transformations requires prioritizing strategic initiatives, assigning team leaders, and establishing the right balance between self-organization and developing standards.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

I can’t imagine guiding large-scale digital transformations without knowledgeable and influential architects. Architects guide solutions, seek standard practices, and target building extendable and reusable platforms and services.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

At a recent Coffee with Digital Trailblazers, a LinkedIn audio event I host on Fridays at 11am ET, we discussed the topic of driving creativity and lifelong learning.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 28, 2023

At some point in your career, you’ll be handed the microphone and asked to deliver a presentation for a big investment. You may be a product manager looking to develop a new product offering, a data scientist seeking additional funding to experiment with large language models (LLMs), or a DevOps engineer seeking buy-in for a new AIOps platform.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 10, 2023

Here’s how Wikipedia defines the business analyst role, which I believe needs some deeper context and definition. “A business analyst (BA) is a person who processes, interprets, and documents business processes, products, services, and software through analysis of data.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 13, 2023

One CIO shared this feedback with me after reading my book, Digital Trailblazer. “Isaac, I wish you had written more about your experiences with the Board and the strategic leadership team (SLT),” she said.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 8, 2023

DevOps engineers have much to offer their organizations beyond developing CI/CD pipelines, configuring infrastructure as code, enabling AIOps capabilities, and other engineering practices that align with dev and ops objectives.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 1, 2023

In my recent post on agile co-creation, I said, “Co-creation requires a shift in mindset, contracting, and operating model.” The shift can be paradoxical for business leaders who view partnering as a tool for throwing problems over the fence and managing a project or service at arm’s length.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 13, 2023

It’s fairly common for CIOs and Digital Trailblazers to be handed an inflight program that’s stalled or completely derailed. Is the DevOps program for modernizing apps and transitioning them to the cloud taking too long? Has a business-led SaaS integration gone awry?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 6, 2023

You won’t transform a business model, redesign a customer experience, or automate a complex business process without facing some resistance. And if leaders and employees line up to protect the status quo, your organization likely needs a cultural transformation.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Over the last few years, we’ve entered a new wave of AI-enabled marketing capabilities. What were easy-to-implement point solutions for generating headlines, prioritizing advertisement keywords, or automating A-Z testing are now mainstream.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 16, 2023

In Chapter 5 of my book, Digital Trailblazer, I share several of my stories of helping organizations define their agile ways of working. If you’re married to a framework, it’s hard for leaders to develop agile cultures and mindsets. And while empowering self-organizing teams is fundamental to agile, it doesn’t mean that agile leaders shouldn’t establish and adopt.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I recently started a new program called Coffee with Digital Trailblazers on LinkedIn. We typically meet on Fridays at 11am ET and discuss a selected topic on leading digital transformation. Two weeks ago, we chatted about how to become a Digital Trailblazer, and this past week we discussed DevOps in SMBs and nontech companies.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I am close to completing my keynote at ETx Canada, a conference for Canadian CIOs, CISOs, and DigitalTrailblazers, and developed in partnership with the CIO Association of Canada. We’re in Kelowna, British Columbia, about a five-hour drive from Vancouver, but only a short distance to wineries, lakefront views, dozens of hiking trails, and challenging ski slopes.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Are we heading for a recession? I’m not an economist. I’ll let these professionals forecast and characterize the state of global economies and the financial markets. What I do know is that senior leadership will budget through 2023 based on how the economy and competitive pressures impact their industry and businesses. . Experienced CIOs, CTOs, and.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I leave fifty transformation leadership lessons for Digital Trailblazers, my name of aspiring transformation leaders, in my new book with that title. It has ten chapters of in-the-moment stories to see how I handled blow-up moments, responded to innovation detractors, and formed diverse leadership teams. Each chapter ends with five summarized lessons, such as, “Ask for.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Two disciplines, becoming a “data-driven organization” and enabling the “future of work” are related objectives, and excelling at one can accelerate the other. We seek data-driven organizations where leaders use data and rely less on intuition when making decisions. We want to help all employees access data, analytics, and the tools to ask questions, discover.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 1, 2022

Earlier this summer, I rebranded my YouTube channel from 5 Minutes with @NYIke to the Driving Digital Standup. . The change reflects a broader mission that includes sharing insights from CIOs, CDOs, and other digital transformation leaders. The Real Stories from Digital Trailblazers will supplement my Driving Digital best practice videos and other formats that.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 18, 2022

It was just over twenty years ago when I was a startup CTO. We spent the late 90s building our platform, customer base, and brand during the internet's growth years. Then in 2000, the dot-com bubble burst. After years of relatively easy funding and a competitive-for-everything environment, we were suddenly conserving cash and looking for efficiencies. .

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 11, 2022

"Let me tell you about one colossal coding mess that I created. It was an Italian restaurant filled with bowls of spaghetti code held together with duct tape and Band-Aids.". In my new book, Digital Trailblazer, I tell several of my stories of creating and trying to address technical debt. The theme of the chapter is that technical debt is now YOUR problem, and it.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 19, 2022

“CIOs today are caught in between a rock and a hard place. The rock is maintaining high availability while doing that as cheaply as possible. The hard place is enabling digital transformation and increasing business and developer velocity,” answered Assaf Resnick, CEO and Co-Founder of BigPanda, at the opening session of RESOLVE ’22. Every.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 16, 2022

Technology, digital, and data organizations focus on delivering business impacts by improving customer experiences, increasing deployment frequencies, developing machine learning models, and meeting service level objectives. It's a significant effort to align priorities, agree on methodologies, and deliver capabilities that meet customer and business stakeholder.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 9, 2022

"The first decision in decision making is when to make a decision," proclaimed Mike Hayes, the chief digital transformation officer of VMWare and former commanding officer for SEAL Team. I was attending Rev 3, a conference on ModelOps, and, more generally, a conference for data scientists to learn and network about their practices in experimenting and.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

APRIL 4, 2022

She was a developer with an innate talent for UX. A leader with big ideas but trapped supporting a website on an outdated content management system. She learned agile, led offshore development teams, and developed her confidence to become an architect on several modern SaaS platforms. He could have just been another software developer on one of our teams, trying to.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 28, 2022

Digital transformations are not new to organizations, and many are in their third or fourth year of seeking competitive advantages with technology and data capabilities. What does that mean in practice? For many organizations, digital transformations often require improving customer experiences, automating workflows, developing applications, and enabling a.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 7, 2022

I really want hybrid models to be a long-lasting way of working that improves people's productivity, work-life balance, and happiness. I also hope employers will promote hybrid working permanently - not just as a response to retain employees - but as a fundamental way of doing business that yields better business outcomes. . Beyond adopting policies and technologies to.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It's pretty easy to describe a "bad culture," but articulating what "good culture" looks like is less straightforward. Similarly, it's easier to define what an agile mindset isn't than what having an agile mindset actually means. . window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.list-manage.com","uuid":".

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Intelligent search powers ecommerce websites, site search engines, portals to support hybrid working, and customer support workflows. We’re going from the early days of keyword search boxes to today’s natural language query interfaces. The intelligence will progress from today’s automatic relevance tuning machine learning algorithms onto tomorrow’s pre-trained models and program.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

I ask this question to agile leaders working with five or more teams: What boundaries and empowerments do you set for your self-organizing teams? . More specifically, are their agile teams free to choose their own tools and technologies? Can the scrum masters lead agile backlogs the way that worked for them at one of their previous jobs?

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

One would think that with all the investments in developing cloud-native applications and microservices – with all the steps IT has taken to modernize applications for the cloud – and with all the monitoring tools we’ve instrumented across our hybrid clouds – that IT Ops and incident managers would see fewer Priority 1 (P1) incidents and that their resolution times.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We used to say "going digital" was about going from print to web, manual processes to more automation, or even from web interfaces to mobile to voice and now AR/VR. Employee experiences were "back office" and there are many organizations with Windows thick client tools that connect to mainframes. Or maybe you have dozens of SaaS tools that aren't integrated and are just starting.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It’s never been a more challenging time to be a CIO and IT leader. Ensuring systems are performing well, secure, and managed efficiently is more important than ever because every business depends on reliable technology. The IT service desk feels more pressure to improve the mean time to recovery (MTTR) to incidents and provide excellent customer service to hybrid working.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Labor Day has new meaning in our house. I have tremendous new respect for all people who earn their living from hard, sweaty, dirty work. And yet, while I call this my personal disaster recovery, it really isn't that personal or that significant of a disaster. My family and I came home to Hurricane Ida's wreckage after it dumped an estimated seven inches of rain in our town.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 30, 2021

In this week's episode of 5 Minutes with @NYIke, I provide my thoughts on avoiding team burnout and how to create destressing activities. I share several personal photos - I am an amateur photographer but enjoy it - and use them to show that it's possible to create bonding, stress-reducing activities with hybrid working teams. Companies Responding with Mental Health.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 9, 2021

Confused about the role of the chief data officer? You're not alone! Is the CDO the owners, steward, and driver to meet regulations on GDPR, PII, HIPAA, FINRA, KYC, CPRA, and the alphabet soup of other compliance requirements? . Does the CDO oversee data-related audits, or are they stakeholders to them? Is the CDO responsible for sourcing new.

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