When Avnet moved from just distributing hardware to providing IoT services, the IT organization had to transform as well. How do you move from an on-prem focused team with an SAP-heavy infrastructure to a business-focused team with a microservices architecture? Max Chan, who became CIO after six years with the company, says that mission statements,…
Culture is the hardest thing to change in a global enterprise, especially when it isn’t unified. Barings CIO Andrew Lennon tackled this task when he agreed to band together five disparate IT organizations with a goal to create higher value through self-service capabilities. “We needed a cultural overhaul within IT,” says Lennon, who accepted the…
Coaches train athletes to develop a short memory for mistakes so that they can move on to the next play and succeed. Similarly, business leaders are frequently advised to fail fast, and move on. In both cases, the idea is to refocus and start again, all while under ongoing, tremendous pressure — yet still produce…
While collaboration tools are pervasive in the enterprise, practices for smartly managing the flow of information created by and in them is not. As a result, these tools often lead to overload and burnout.
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Windows Server 2008 has reached end of life, which typically means upgrading to a newer version. But CIOs have options beyond updating to a more recent iteration of Windows server, including staying put or migrating to the cloud. If you still have workloads running on Windows Server 2008, you’re not alone. As recently as July…
Enterprises looking for a way to modernize legacy AS/400 workloads now have a new option: Move them onto Google Cloud Platform. Google won’t host your old AS/400 for you, but it is renting time on IBM Power Systems servers, the AS/400’s architectural successors. Its announcement follows a similar one from Microsoft in September. [ Stay…
With digital transformation challenging businesses worldwide, a growing number of companies are placing their future into the hands of an enterprise architect, someone who can take disruption and turn it into a competitive advantage. With a CIO’s guidance, the enterprise architect can develop a systems architecture and technology evolution plan that will support and advance…
It’s the start of a new year, a new decade even. Pivotal moments in time like these call for new resolutions; an analysis of what’s brought us to where we are and the envisioning of where we’d like to go and how we plan to get there. In that spirit, we kicked off this new…
What qualities make a good executive? Poise, thoughtfulness, decisiveness, empathy and rapport, to name a few. But there’s a certain something that sets top-notch executives apart that can be hard to define — that intangible quality that inspires people to follow their lead: their executive presence, or EP. But what, exactly, is executive presence? Here…
Earlier this year, I made a passing comment on LinkedIn that I had “finally figured out what it means to be a leader, not just a manager.” Afterwards, people followed up asking, “How do you become a leader and what made you realize this and adjust?” Honestly, the answer is that I had a buckling…