Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 24, 2023

Sponsored by Verizon It’s 5 am, and Tina is soothing her six-year-old daughter, who’s suffering from a moderate fever and other flu-like symptoms. She starts her remote work job at 8 am and is thinking through how to care for her daughter before her day starts.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 17, 2023

Laura recently left her job at a fintech startup and is starting a new role in the wealth management division at a large bank. Tracking company news, the latest sales announcements, and updated product information was easy because there wasn’t much information at her old company, and she expected a similar experience at her new job.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 3, 2023

Some context: I rarely blog about information security because it’s outside my core expertise in digital transformation. It’s hard to drive transformation and also have a risk and security mindset, and it’s extraordinarily time-consuming to keep up with the latest security threats.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 12, 2023

Sponsored by Verizon A successful hybrid work program includes effective online collaboration and information sharing so remote workers can be productive at home and feel like they are contributing as much as their onsite colleagues Upgrading remote work solutions is an important first step to improving employee experiences, enabling near-real-time issue

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 5, 2023

Two weeks ago, I published three ways data governance leaders can promote their careers and stated, “Seeing data governance functions pigeonholed into compliance and data security responsibilities drives me a little nuts.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 30, 2023

Sponsored by Verizon Recent reports show that companies continue to embrace hybrid working and fully remote employees to drive productivity and improve work-life balance. Gartner forecasts that 51% of U.S. knowledge workers (39% globally) will work in hybrid mode by the end of 2023, and 20% will be fully remote.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 22, 2023

Seeing data governance functions pigeonholed into compliance and data security responsibilities drives me a little nuts. First, it misses the key business value proposition of data governance, which should be on helping people in the organization, customers, and partners leverage data in decision-making in reliable and compliant ways.

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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

APRIL 17, 2023

Chapter 8 of my book, Digital Trailblazer, is titled “Transformative Culture, Empathetic Teams, Diverse Leaders,” and I went through several rewrites and revisions to get the stories and lessons right. I just released the Driving Digital Standup video on this chapter, as it’s one of the most important reads in the book.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 27, 2023

I recently shared recommendations with over 100 CEOs and Board of Director members on how they should prepare their businesses for the impacts of ChatGPT and Generative AI. The Driving Digital Standup video embedded here has some background, including several ways I use ChatGPT today.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 20, 2023

I’ve led many successful application development, cloud migration, and data/analytics programs over the years, and I staffed most of them with a mix of employees, freelancers, and service providers.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

I despise the yearly performance management process. Once a year, managers and leaders care enough about their employees’ goals and development plans and must ceremonially record objectives in HR’s performance management system.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 23, 2023

“Some are true collaborative geniuses. These maestros win over stakeholders to buy into visions and customer value propositions without getting sucked into appeasing everyone’s wish lists.” I tell this story at the beginning of Chapter 4 of Digital Trailblazer, a chapter I titled “Product Management and Architecture: Trials and Triumphs.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A few weeks ago, I reviewed my son’s C code that he and a classmate developed for their college first-year computer science class. The assignment required them to use a linked list to simulate shuffling a deck of cards, finding pairs, and exchanging cards between players. They struggled to debug their code, and running it produced inconsistent results and null.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 5, 2022

CIO and IT leaders are frustrated about “not having a seat at the table” when the executive committees debate important strategic decisions. But when I speak to CHRO, human resource leaders, learning and development officers, and HR IT specialists, they question why they aren’t directly involved in digital transformation strategies.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It was once a sacrilege to even talk about tearing down Yankee Stadium, the house that Ruth built, and building a new and better version. But that’s exactly what the Yankees did in 2009, joining scores of other owners and city governments to rebuild stadiums to improve the fan experience and increase revenue – and also targeting longer-term sustainability.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2022

CFOs are the most important ally to the CIO, and the CIO should be the CFO’s strategic planning, delivery, and transformation partner. They should collaborate on a portfolio of transformation initiatives, define standards of excellence, and seek ways to grow revenue and profitability. But the CIO should not report to them in most situations.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 10, 2022

CIOs, CDOs, innovators, and IT leaders have many technology investment options to consider. How should you prioritize dollars, agile teams, and transformation programs, given how all businesses need better technology and data capabilities? . I have been advising Digital Trailblazers to prioritize force multiplying platform investments that drive multiple strategic benefits.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You’ve heard the somewhat dated term, “Make IT part of the business” or “Align IT to the business,” but I have a better question for you. How can you “Empower the business to partner with IT?”. Yes, I’m turning the question around 180 degrees. Seriously, we’re at a point in the evolution of technology, data, and innovation that we want to.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Take a quick survey of how many search interfaces you have running in the organization. Count every content management system, all the customer-facing applications, and the portfolio of important SaaS tools with built-in search capabilities. The count may go into the hundreds of search and information silos in large enterprises, but even smaller and medium-sized businesses.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2022

I am getting ahead of the curve and sharing with CIO and IT leaders several priority investments they should consider for 2023. My perspective: Many SMBs and large enterprises have invested in digital transformation for several years. Whether we’re heading for a recession or a correction, leaders must sense the shift in financial winds and refocus their digital transformation.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 15, 2022

You have a big idea - maybe for a customer-facing application that will drive revenue, an analytics dashboard to help operations reduce quality issues, or a marketing campaign that may attract new prospects. Right now, it's just an idea, but you want to invest a few hours per week researching and planning a business case. What should you do? You.

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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

JUNE 20, 2022

Our greatest thinking moments for developing ideas, innovations, and inspirations occur when we take three steps away from our daily grinds. On some days, you achieve this by taking a long hot shower. Other times, your mind opens up while immersing in intense physical activity. I prefer biking and hiking and usually have a phone ready to record an idea or insight.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 13, 2022

The premise of my new book, Digital Trailblazer, is that organizations need a growing number of people ready to step up and lead digital transformation initiatives. If it's just the CIO, CDO, CEO, or other executives driving the mission and values, then the transformation won't have the leadership needed to produce business impacts. Executives need more Digital.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Picture yourself presenting a minimally viable product to executives, business stakeholders, and other subject matter experts to develop enthusiasm and garner their support for a new customer-facing innovation your team is working on. . Now take a few steps backward in time, and consider how to empower your agile teams, led by product management and supported through DevOps.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

One of my favorite scenes in Finding Nemo is when Nemo and friends successfully escape the dentist's office, land in the ocean in their plastic, water-filled bags, look around and consider their accomplishment, only to hear Bloat, the pufferfish, ask the perfect quest, "Now what?". Your team invests so much time just to get to this point, but they haven't.

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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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