What is a chief administrative officer? A strategic executive role for operations

What is a CAO? A chief administrative officer (CAO) is a top-level executive responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of an organization and the company’s overall performance. CAOs are responsible for managing an organization’s finances as well as creating goals, policies, and procedures for the company to help it operate more efficiently and compliantly. They…

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CIO Leadership Live with Chief Digital Officer Terri Carajannis of Harrison Grierson

Harrison Grierson Chief Digital Officer Terri Carajannis on being ‘chief cheerleader’ for digital, the importance of wellbeing at work and why magic happens when you hear from everybody. Watch this episode: #id62c21a90e08c6 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important; } Careers, CIO, CIO Leadership Live Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with Chief Digital…

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4 stories all CIOs should be able to tell

Master storyteller Doug Keeley was a featured speaker at a large national sales meeting some years ago when he noticed how miserable everyone was feeling. “Morale was horrible,” he recalls. “There was a new leader taking over, and her opening keynote had bombed. Everyone thought this CEO was cold and lacking empathy.” The only way…

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4 new IT workforce realities

Every day the headlines remind us just how fragile/broken the human supply chain is. At the height of the pandemic we discovered severe shortages of truck drivers, meat packers, and emergency room nurses. As we limp through the frustratingly elongated ramp toward a post-COVID world we are experiencing significant shortages of coders, butchers, bakers, pilots,…

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Green Tech that ‘Moves the Needle’ on Climate Change

There’s still a sizable distance between sustainability sentiment and corporate action. Innovative green technology—including energy-efficient supercomputers, low-emissions datacenters, computational fluid dynamics simulations, and circular design—are helping to close that gap.  Consider the statistics. Two-thirds of executives surveyed in the Deloitte 2022 CxO Sustainability Report say they are “very concerned” about climate change, with 79% seeing the world…

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