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The CIO’s fatal flaw: Too much leadership, not enough management

CIO Business Intelligence

Getting back to Drucker, it’s easy to draw a false inference — that if leadership is doing the right things while management is doing them right, then without leaders to guide them, managers would do the wrong things the right way, steadfastly dragging the whole enterprise in the wrong direction. So why does leadership get all the buzz?

Budget 125
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Stepping up to the challenge of a global conglomerate CIO role

CIO Business Intelligence

He must integrate the IT infrastructures of the two companies by bringing Shubhalakshmi Polyesters’ technology up to speed with that of Reliance Polyester. Dr. Amrut Urkude, CIO of Reliance Polyester iStock How different is the IT infrastructure in the two companies? How are you planning to integrate them?

Budget 97
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The art of selling: IT budget approval made easier

CIO Business Intelligence

Sitting in this selling seminar, my persuasive difficulties with the CEO and CFO became immediately apparent to me. Instead, you want to implement a zero-trust network because the company’s business direction is to move more operations to remote “edge” facilities. Why was I at this presentation, you ask?

Budget 100
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How Novanta’s CIO mobilized its data-driven transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

We started from a focused business case by partnering with three different groups to showcase how centralization of data can be efficient, helpful, and a good roadmap for the company,” she says. On data governance: We have 17 different ERP systems, and Novanta is a very acquisitive company, so it’s an ongoing challenge.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

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Driving tangible results to an organization, company or industry by empowering new capabilities that generate top-line growth and/or increased competitive advantage, or improving operational efficiencies that result in quantifiable bottom-line savings. Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions, Ovum. SUBMIT YOURS TODAY!

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

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Driving tangible results to an organization, company or industry by empowering new capabilities that generate top-line growth and/or increased competitive advantage, or improving operational efficiencies that result in quantifiable bottom-line savings. Principal Analyst, Software – Enterprise Solutions, Ovum. SUBMIT YOURS TODAY!

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Upskilling ramps up as gen AI forces enterprises to transform

CIO Business Intelligence

Thomson Corporation was founded in 1934 as a newspaper company, and Reuters was founded even earlier, in 1851, to transmit stock prices. The emergence of the Internet could have been a death blow, but the company survived — and thrived. But that’s not the only big bet the company is making on generative AI.