Leadership
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Which CTO personas have you seen in your business?
CTO’s role vary in scope depending on the industry and organization size. In a typical Gartner personification, we see the CTO’s role in primary industry businesses in four personas: · Digital Business Leader — Accountable for the digital business technology strategy and building and architecting the required digital platforms. · Continue reading
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What you see is all there is or shall I say what you show is all there is?
Let me start with a beautiful scenario from Innovator’s Dilemma (slightly adapted version)In the same week, two respected employees, one from marketing, the other from engineering, run two very different ideas for new products past their common manager two levels above them in the organization. The marketer comes first, with an idea for a higher-capacity, Continue reading
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Leadership in context
Warren Buffett once said:“When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.” While this is true in the context of wider market and competitive forces beyond management control, I find this equally true in the context of Continue reading
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Managing Uncertainty:
Many may assume that top executives have access to all the necessary data and operate with certainty. However, the reality is quite the opposite: as one climbs the career ladder, the level of uncertainty increases. Effectively managing uncertainty is one of the most essential skills for executive success. Continue reading
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Does an organization need to have a Chief Innovation Officer role?
You might see innovation as a top corporate objective but when it comes to executive responsibility nobody seems to have a clear responsibility for innovation. You might argue that everyone in the organization is responsible for innovation and that very thought leads to mediocre outcomes with innovation. You may not necessarily have a Chief Innovation Continue reading
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How smart leaders and organizations deal with disruptive change?
The very processes and values that constitute an organization’s capabilities in one context, define its disabilities in another context. organizations have capabilities that exist independently of the people who work within them. An organization’s capabilities in the form of: Processes and values are not flexible. Process and values that were fit for dealing with a Continue reading
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AI trends for CTOs, CIOs and IT leaders for 2025
Rate of change for AI is going to accelerate further in 2025. As CIOs, CTOs and IT Leaders prepare for the future, many of them are overwhelmed by the incredible speed of technology innovations, specifically in AI. Top strategic technology AI trends that technology leaders will need to focus on in 2025. Let’s explore each Continue reading
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Power of listening
Sometimes the best way to communicate is to say nothing at all. Continue reading
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Leader’s role in innovation
Leader doesn’t need be an innovator. To innovate, leader’s role is to: Continue reading
Thinking Space 