Category: Company Culture
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Modernizing How to Make Smarter Technology and AI Investments
Organizations need to reevaluate their technology and AI investment processes to avoid slow consensus or impulsive procurement. CIOs should focus on outcomes over features, ensuring alignment with business goals and security. Streamlining evaluation and procurement phases will aid effective technology selections, supporting agile testing and integration for transformative results.
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How My Breakthrough Course Will Empower Digital Transformation Leaders in the AI Era
Digital transformation is now more crucial than ever in the AI era, shifting from a project mindset to an ongoing strategy for organizations. The introduction of AI enhances the need for continuous evolution in business operations, with leadership programs focusing on integrating AI, facilitating culture change, and tracking meaningful outcomes.
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How to Kill Floundering Experiments and Drive an AI Learning Culture
The low success rate of AI and ML experiments, typically around 30%, often reflects a narrow focus on production deployment. Effective experimentation prioritizes an AI learning culture, value demonstration, and agile delivery methods. Best practices include setting clear success criteria, regular reviews, centralized documentation, and rewarding knowledge sharing to foster an agile AI learning culture.
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Predictions on Culture, Gen AI, and Innovation That I Hope Are Wrong
Isaac Sacolick highlights concerns about DEI practices, hybrid work’s potential decline, AI overinvestment, and underinvestment in employee leadership development and training. He stresses the importance of leadership development for organizational success, warning against possible setbacks if companies fail to prioritize these areas.
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From Burnout to Breakthrough: Three Timely Strategies for CIOs and Digital Trailblazers
Isaac Sacolick reflects on his experiences and shares valuable lessons from his book, Digital Trailblazer. Highlighting the significance of addressing burnout in IT, promoting diverse teams for innovation, and fostering a positive team culture, Isaac emphasizes the need for compassionate leadership heading into 2025.
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The Power of Drive: A New Chapter for Agility, Innovation, and Transformation
Isaac Sacolick reflects on nearly 20 years of blogging, announcing the launch of a revamped blog called Drive, emphasizing its core theme of leadership in digital transformation. Focusing on agility, innovation, and transformation competencies, the blog aims to help leaders navigate change.
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7 Ways Amazing Digital Trailblazers Can Market Their Team’s Success
7 ideas for Digital Trailblazers on marketing their team’s successes and reinforcing change management programs.
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3 Ways Helpful CIOs and CHROs Can Drive Experimental Cultures
CIO and CHRO have a pivotal role in accelerating digital transformation regarding change management, generative AI, security, and quality.
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Grateful Digital Trailblazers Reflect on Innovation and Lifelong Learning
Celebrating Thanksgiving, Digital Trailblazers reflect on the essential: family, team, partners, lifelong learning, and innovation.
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Celebrating My 1,000th Article: 3 Time Tested Lessons for Digital Transformation Leaders
Isaac Sacolick, in his 1,000th article, shares three time-tested lessons for digital transformation leaders: change management, learning, gratitude.
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Joe Puglisi on Digital Transformation Leaders: Calm Teachers and Helpful Simplifiers
Joe Puglisi chats with Isaac Sacolick on his top attributes of Digital Trailblazers and digital transformation leaders.
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Emerging Digital Trailblazers: 15 Ways to Hire and Train for Entry Level High Potentials
Leaders attending the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers share what it takes to hire and develop entry level high potentials into Digital Trailblazers.