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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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2020 Book Reads: Agile, Innovation, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

For the second year in a row, I share with you all the books that I read as part of my GoodReads challenge. My top books from 2019 included reads about transformation, including The Ride of a Lifetime and The Technology Fallacy, books for entrepreneurs such as Lost and Founder and Inspired, and AI books such as AI Superpowers.

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Best of 1,000 StarCIO Articles: The Informative Digital Transformation Must-Reads

Social, Agile and Transformation

A couple of weeks ago, I celebrated my 1,000th blog post, an achievement I am just as proud of as publishing my two books, Driving Digital and Digital Trailblazer. In the post, I shared three time-tested lessons for digital trailblazers and thanked many contributors to my weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers. Looking back at 18+

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What is Your Survival Plan for Managing Technical Debt?

Social, Agile and Transformation

In my new book, Digital Trailblazer, I tell several of my stories of creating and trying to address technical debt. "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.".

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Avoiding a Stay at a Haunted Hotel And Why We Need a Travel App for That

CIO Business Intelligence

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! Mari Kure Devops, Software Development That’s what happened to my friend Dana. But that didn’t go as planned. She struggled to sleep.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

If the organization has little to no trust, especially between software development teams and management or your executives and anyone under them, the transformation of anything will not work,” she said. Agile can help build trust between teams, stakeholders, and leadership, but agile cannot correct a lack of trust between people.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO Business Intelligence

Now I have consciously tapped into the R&D space, product development and the DevOps segment. Once I saw the alignment to being CIO, I ramped up on emerging technologies, novel product development and solutioning systems. Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to grow across multiple domains and transition every few years.