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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. People and businesses are looking for opportunities. What kinds of opportunities? Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

Today’s digital revolution brings three new components: ubiquitous networks that connect people, devices, and systems instantly and globally; the data that these networks collect and the ability to store that data cost-effectively; and processing power and techniques that enable us to analyze and act on the available data.

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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.”

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

IT needs to create models that examine and reflect the potential for enhanced value coming from such systems. It languished for months until 7/11/2011, during the company''s birthday celebration, when franchise managers started sharing merchandizing practices. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Courage and Patience.

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