The importance of a good Chief of Staff, and how to see around corners to be one mckinsey.com/capabilities/s…

Everyone has a superpower - and sometimes our confidence is the most powerful of all. Take a look at how you could make it work for you, in a balanced fashion. mckinsey.com/featured-insig…

Check out these 8 things to have in mind before initiating change. One thing I have personally observed many times is that if the basics are not working, then it isn't practical to begin talking about future transformation. cio.com/article/124934…

Is your CIO becoming an "Orchestrator-in-Chief"? Modern CIOs are increasingly an enterprise wide clearing house for information and opportunity, based on strong relationships with the whole C-suite. cio.com/article/124989…

This article calls out culture as the biggest barrier to differentiated innovation - and also the biggest accelerator when you get it right. mckinsey.com/capabilities/s…

"Measure business outcomes, not lines of code" - regardless of your type of business, the purpose of a technology organization is always to drive business outcomes. cio.com/article/125577…

Intelligent solutions, tech debt and cyber security are key CIO and CTO priorities going into 2024 - another complex balance year ahead of us. cio.com/article/126743…

This McKinsey article names "Outcompeting with technology" as a top 2024 CEO priority. What has been talked about for the last couple of years is increasingly real: Technology strategy is part and parcel of business strategy and development. mckinsey.com/capabilities/s…

What is the definition of having a strategy? Check out these five questions to ask yourself and your team.... maybe the strategy is not as clear to everyone as it could be? Let alone how to act on it? Doing strategy well is complicated more often than not. linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-h…

Have you experienced "team in name only"? Good teaming is so important to success! Out of the gate, how do you make sure that you have an actual team in the first place? And if you do not - not yet - how do you fix it? strategy-business.com/article/Teamin…

What does your data fabric strategy look like, and does it avoid the 8 mistakes listed in this article? Too often have In the emerging age of AI, how we ensure that we train our AI models on high quality cohesive data should be a paramount priority. cio.com/article/129350…

Interesting view on in MedTech. I agree, strongly, that fusing software and hardware is going to drive innovation. What should be added to the list in the article, is the emergence of ambient healthcare solutions as a foundational care component. mckinsey.com/industries/lif…

Having a robust IT foundation, getting the basics right, still matters in an age of AI and smart devices. This holds both externally and internally, bad stability experiences are simply debilitating. cio.com/article/130733…

Always make sure that your culture message is authentic. It is much worse to (with the best of intentions) describe a culture that is not quite reality - at least not yet - than it is to be honest and talk about things being work in progress. pwc.com/gx/en/issues/w…

AI is powerful, with a lot of value potential.... and AI solutions can be expensive to build and operate. Understanding the ROI is key to success in an increasingly AI powered environment. computerworld.com/article/371334…

AI will definitely change our world over the next 5 to 10 years. Not by replacing humans, but rather by augmenting what each of us can do, by accelerating our learning curves, and by providing us with an environment that is both smart and caring. mckinsey.com/capabilities/p…

The reasons for a M&A transaction have been crisply outlined, the value proposition is clear, what could possibly go wrong? Even with the best diligence, the work is far from done once the transaction closed - now begins the transition, which takes longer. mckinsey.com/capabilities/m…

What really constitutes authority in today's modern business environment? In my experience, authority is no longer about decision rights, rather it is much more about gravitas. What is the 'weight' with which you are being heard? cio.com/article/236414…

Interesting study of internal talent mobility practices. In my experience, especially the "coercive promotion" practice is damaging - giving someone a promotion while not actually expanding/changing what they do. sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-yo…

This article raises an interesting question: Is hybrid cloud the answer to hosting hybrid large language model (aka your Generative AI estate, enriched by your own data and prompts)? cio.com/article/210461…