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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

To tackle these issues, for the past five years, the new trend in executive hiring has been the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) role. This is where the CTO role gets into the spotlight. Step 4: Operations alignment. All organizations must face major transformations while working to advance in their industry. And why is that?

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The Future of Our Partnership With Machines

Skip Prichard

Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. You could argue that all jobs are at risk: Machines can already analyze data, pick stocks, make decisions that touch on operational efficiency and logistics, sift through resumes and make hiring decisions, etc.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

Leaders of small and medium size businesses (SMBs) often think their size lets them operate under the radar, as less attractive targets to bad guys. Equally dangerous is the computer operator who props open the data center door to make it easier to allow the guy who says he’s the A/C maintenance engineer get in and out.

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Master the Four Fields of Leadership

Skip Prichard

The definition that I operate from is that leadership is any means by which two or more people develop the ability to cooperate and take collective action. For example: someone brings bad news about a project. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. Tom Goodell. . What’s the Goodell definition of leadership? .

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A 5-Part Process for Using Technology to Improve Your Talent Management

Harvard Business Review

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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

Harvard Business Review

Improving Operational Efficiency. For mature, large-scale, multinational companies, there is a virtuous cycle of efficiency improvements that frees up resources, which can then be deployed for growth and innovation projects. The biggest opportunities for these companies are simplification and horizontal integration projects.

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Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave?

Harvard Business Review

IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies. Company and unit leaders need to ensure that IT is in a leading position on all key digital projects. It requires new modes of operation.

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