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The senior vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group, has spent years executing a technology roadmap to modernize the insurance company. It consistently requires a lot of changemanagement, including the right level of engagement and collaboration with business stakeholders.”
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They deliver Although it’s true that leading , which is about visioning, is not synonymous with managing , aka accomplishing tasks , true IT leaders are indeed “great at the business of IT,” says Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute and part of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Leadership Institute.
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