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Coaching your IT team for change: 9 tips

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If your team pushes back, digs in, or fights whenever you present them with a change, it isn’t solely because they are a change-resistant crew, though. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Getting your team to accept, and even embrace, change is an essential leadership skill.

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Going 100% SaaS

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I was first introduced to SaaS (then ASP) in January 2000 when I joined Brassring, a rollup of 9 small companies in the Recruitment space, as its first CTO. Most companies uniquely use SAAS solutions for their internal technology needs. Configuration management. Key Evaluation Criteria - Service. Release schedule.

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Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era

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At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. The company is awesome and has such phenomenal loyalty from its customer base. This was pretty egregious for a billion-dollar company,” he says.

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What is a chief digital officer? A digital strategist and evangelist in chief

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At many companies, the chief digital officer is a customer-facing role that signals a commitment to a digital future. At others, the chief digital officer’s main responsibility is to strategically transform the company’s business. Chief digital officer vs. CIO vs. CTO. Otherwise, you won’t succeed.”.

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

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At his company, anyway. in business administration and wrote his dissertation on digital acuity and intelligence in “incumbent companies.” Hussman, which manufactures and services commercial refrigeration equipment for food retailers globally, is a 117-year-old company. The payoff can be significant. “We

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

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But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. This is the largest change management project in history,” says Greenstein.

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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

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Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America. “If Open and free-to-register events scheduled by public cloud providers and other technology companies.