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Pushing Past Your Comfort Zone

Lead Change Blog

In December 2011, I was selected as CTO ? My experiences at building relations, reading up on the company’s business model, spending time with the management team in understanding their apprehensions on integration, and gaining technical knowledge on their systems and processes helped set me on the correct track.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. With that understanding, focus on how you will continuously recycle resources from invention to deployment, management, offloading and back. We want to come out strong.”

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

Don’t rely on just centralized training — managers must be deeply involved in the development of their team members and hold them accountable to demonstrate ongoing mastery. I recently heard a senior leader ask when the digital transformation they were undertaking would be done — as if there’s a finite point of completion.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.