Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Change management isn’t just about training – it’s about shifting mindsets, dealing with resistance, and maintaining productivity during the transition. Based on years of seeing both successes and failures, my practical advice is to make compliance and governance central to your AI strategy from day one.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2023

A common but critical challenge I hear from CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs every day is that they have a difficult time helping the C-suite understand that IT is the very architecture for the future of business, not a cost center. How do you convince decision-makers to collaborate on linking IT strategy with business strategy?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2023

A clear vision for executing a real-time AI strategy is a critical step to align executives and line-of-business leaders on how real-time AI will increase business value for the organization. How is data, process, and model drift managed for reliability? Artificial Intelligence, IT Leadership, Machine Learning

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Ajith Chandrasekharan serves as the Director of Enterprise Architecture at Keurig Dr Pepper focused on developing and maintaining the enterprise architecture roadmap and plays a crucial role in aligning the IT strategy to the business objectives. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Any enterprise data management strategy has to begin with addressing the 800-pound gorilla in the corner: the “innovation gap” that exists between IT and business teams. Most organizations (81%) don’t have an enterprise data strategy that enables them to fully capitalize on their data assets, according to Accenture.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 2, 2017

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of changes, and the purpose of change. Change Management is no longer just a few business initiatives, but an ongoing digital capability which enables the strategy implementation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

“Increasingly in our technology-driven world and business landscape, it makes sense to have a leader who’s a technologist by trade.” While CIOs have stepped up and delivered digital strategies for business transformation, using those successes as a platform to move into a CEO position could throw a curveball.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Today, 70% of Johar’s time is spent on managing business operations, and the little time remaining, he says, is dedicated to driving business transformation and growth initiatives. With AI augmentation, that balance will shift away from back-end management to innovation and forward-focused projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

became CIO in 2020, he and his leadership team defined a new digital strategy and IT operating model to bring the full force of digital technologies to the company’s customers and employees. I recently spoke with Bishop to learn his perspective on IT’s role in business transformation. When Irvin Bishop, Jr.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Change Management : This is huge, and most organizations get it wrong. Core Leadership Qualities That Remain Essential Despite all the AI hype, some leadership fundamentals haven’t changed. It’s not just about what AI can do but what it should do. Don’t make that mistake.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 3, 2015

Organizational change management has a strong role in business transformation, benefits realization, and strategy execution. But what are the key success factors in managing change successfully and where should Change Management be positioned in the organization?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. A good digital transformation strategy is one that delivers incremental value within a comprehensive and formal framework,” Shah explains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

The job is so large that Allianz Technology CTO Gülay Stelzmüllner, then CIO, hired Karcher in October 2022 to develop the company’s ESG reporting strategy because she didn’t have enough time to strategize for it herself, given her ongoing CIO duties. Business goals matter, financials matter, and employee engagement matters,” she says.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 28, 2020

Statistically, about 70% of change initiatives fail, rather, they fail to meet stakeholders’ expectations. Forward-looking organizations should have a set of changing steering instruments, systems, and structures in place prior to implementation in order to improve change management success rate.

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Future of CIO

MAY 6, 2014

However, on a global scale, approximately 70% of the business or IT transformation have failed to meet business expectations, how to make such a transformation effort more systematically. Business transformation needs to be carried out within the company's system and apply design principle accordingly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2023

You’ve got to have leaders who can articulate the digital vision, be that ‘tech whisperer’ to explain to senior executives your journey into the future, and then you need to be able to properly manage the change management initiative — or all your great strategies won’t deliver their promised value. It’s a logical path.

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Future of CIO

MARCH 23, 2018

Digital ecosystem has become more complex and dynamic, Change Management also turns to be more complex, and there is no magic formula to follow. That’s perhaps part of reasons why the failure rate of Change Management is so stubbornly high. Most people are quite willing to put the effort into change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

So for technology leaders who want to be key players in their companies’ transformations, the first step, he says, is to pivot from focusing on bits and bytes to debits and credits, starting with the finances of the IT organization itself. The most successful CIOs are those who spend time and energy on financial management,” he says. “It

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Forrester IT

APRIL 30, 2018

It is such a pleasure to be back at Forrester, especially now when our firm is actively embracing and helping you, our customers, leverage new technologies to innovate and differentiate your business.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 29, 2016

Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency, effectiveness to agility and maturity. Besides the "Big WHYs" about the change we discussed earlier, here are three big WHAT about Change Management. #1

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 10, 2016

Change Management is no longer just a one-time project, but an ongoing, multi-faceted digital capability. Digital is all about changes, and change is multi-faceted with increasing speed and velocity. So how to manage change effectively? Assure the goals to achieve changes are well communicated.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 17, 2020

Organizational change management has a strong role in business transformation, benefits realization, and strategy execution. It’s important to first understand how much change capability (people, process, and technology) is really required for the effort you are kicking off.

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Future of CIO

MAY 8, 2017

Even change itself changes, and digital ecosystem has become more complex and dynamic. Change Management also turns to be more complex, that’s perhaps part of reasons why the failure rate of Change Management is so stubbornly high - around two-thirds of Change Management efforts fail to achieve the expected value.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 14, 2016

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of changes, and the purpose of change. CIOs as change agents: What’re your logical steps in Change Management scenario? People are always at the center of change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

A consultant leading a business transformation initiative should collaborate closely with the client’s leadership team to develop a shared vision, roadmap, and implementation plan, Sonty says. A consultant should be open to adapting quickly to changing priorities, deadlines, and scope, and be willing to pivot as needed.

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Future of CIO

JULY 17, 2018

Change cannot be just another thing that needs to be accomplished. It has to be woven into communication, process, and action of the organization, to navigate through the “5W+1H” Change Management framework. WHY do you need to CHANGE? The strong support for continuous improvement is an essential strategy.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2015

With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of business. Change is a volatile subject, just like change itself. Everything changes continuously by following the laws of evolution, and the rate of change is accelerated.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 5, 2019

There are positive changes and negative changes; there are incremental changes and disruptive changes, etc. Here are varying perspectives about Change Management. If the organizational change management intends to change employees’ behavior through some mandatory rules, often change is not sustainable.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2019

A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change life cycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum. Thus, in forward-looking organizations, IT has become synonymous with the change department.

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Future of CIO

JUNE 5, 2017

Modern IT has to make a paradigm shift, continue to move up its maturity from a reactive helpdesk, back-office function into a proactive business partner and innovation engine. As every successful change program or the business transformation should follow the 'Golden Circle' starting with the WHY?

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Future of CIO

JULY 2, 2018

A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum. How to spot your change champions and cultivate the culture of learning and innovating?

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 6, 2014

Business strategy has to drive transformation. There are too many organizations with transformation programs that are not driven by strategy. So they end up being silo transformations with no systems thinking applied. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 13, 2019

As their firms become more advanced in their digital journeys — embracing new technology and evolving their business models — the skills and talent they need to execute on that become […]. Digital leaders tell us that they often struggle to find the right people with the right skills, and competition for elite talent is fierce.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And in Business, it’s the “burning platform.” It’s the idea that people’s behavior is changing and competitors are taking the leap while you stay “safe” on a crumbling cliff. In Academia we called it “publish or perish.” In Marketing we called it #StayRelevant.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 8, 2013

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. This is another reminder that change management is hard.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

And when performed strategically in succession as Mahon has done at Werner, such quick wins can lead to much larger business transformation over time — with less big-bang disruption and change management thanks to measurable proof of enhancement along the way. Digital Transformation

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

What Our Clients Tell Us All The Time. Our organization has gone to great lengths to become Agile, and we are well on our journey, but there is friction between our org and those within the company who have not yet transitioned to Agile practices.” Agile teams feel bogged down and relevant […].

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