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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Today’s information security leaders are faced with: Technology aligned reporting structure. Security leaders are primarily reporting to the CIO. Security initiatives viewed primarily as technology solutions create misalignment with business requirements. Invests in security technologies that supports business objectives.

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Every Organizational Function Needs to Work on Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GARTNER

Harvard Business Review

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

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What If You Could Learn Design from Apple?

Harvard Business Review

Their purpose is to instill the company’s vision and values and cultivate critical skills and competencies. For a number of years, IBM organized the Center for CIO Leadership as a “global community to advance the profession.” In contrast, IBM’s program helped CIOs be better business leaders.

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When Learning at Work Becomes Overwhelming

Harvard Business Review

Many skilled jobs require a considerable amount of learning while doing, but learning requirements have reached unrealistic levels in many roles and work situations today. This phenomenon of “too much to learn” is not only feeding the perception of critical skills shortages in many sectors, but it can also accelerate burnout.

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IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users

Harvard Business Review

The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company.

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