What’s one way to get CIOs griping and venting about their data strategies? Ask them how successfully they get their business users to migrate off their mega spreadsheets and onto data visualization and other self-service business intelligence platforms. Then, ask chief data officers (CDOs) how hard it is to lead data governance programs that include…
Servant leadership has emerged as a popular management method that replaces command-and control-style leadership with empathy and empowerment. The management approach prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self. Whereas traditional leadership focuses on the success…
Companies typically face three big problems in managing their skills base: Normal learning approaches require too much time to scale up relevant knowledge. Hiring for new skills is expensive and also too slow. And skills from new hires are rarely properly shared. Businesses of all types have fought to solve these problems. Some conduct ever…
Il n’y a pas de solution facile lorsqu’il s’agit d’engendrer la diversité et l’inclusion (D&I) en milieu de travail. L’implantation et le maintien d’un environnement diversifié et inclusif s’accompagnent de nombreux défis – et nécessitent une approche nuancée qui ne s’accorde pas toujours avec les mécanismes existants – souvent inadéquats et désuets. Pour réussir dans…
There are no easy solutions when it comes to creating diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workplace. Creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace comes with many challenges – and requires a nuanced approach that might not play well with existing blunt and outdated mechanisms. To be successful in this space, companies are often…
Altering your approach as a CIO is critical in leading digital transformation within healthcare organizations. The goal of healthcare digital transformation is to achieve clinical, financial, and operational strategic goals, but this journey is complex and requires the mobilization of technology, resources, processes, and talent. Every aspect of what healthcare organizations do is affected by…
Germany’s bustling port city of Hamburg has long been known as one of Europe’s premier cultural destinations, the birthplace of composers Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms, the inspiration behind designers Karl Lagerfeld and Jil Sander, the spot where the Beatles traveled to receive their seasoning, as well as their signature haircuts. But during the COVID-19…
By Tom Thorpe, Vice President International Markets, Broadcom Software It’s been great to see people returning to face-to-face meetings in recent months – for us at Broadcom Software, a little more than most. Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. With companies shutting their…
There’s no roadmap. No standard approach. No required certifications. No tried-and-true methods to guarantee success. Executive coaching sounds like a profession at the opposite end of the spectrum from the CIO role. Yet for former CIOs Jim Rinaldi of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and Jim DiMarzio of Toyo Tires and Mazda North American Operations, their…
Digital transformation goes well beyond reducing physical assets to bits. Digital transformation leverages software to re-invent the entire LBGUPS (Learn, Buy, Get, Use, Pay & Support) business value chain. I suspect almost all reading this post are involved in digital transformations at work and see it in action throughout daily life. For example, over the…