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6 ways you’re failing at change management

CIO Business Intelligence

Its up to IT leaders to ensure the changes their digital initiatives bring to business workflows are absorbed and acted upon by the users impacted by them. Too often, however, change management is treated as an afterthought, observes Munir Hafez, senior vice president and CIO at consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion.

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Top 11 change management certifications to boost your IT career

CIO Business Intelligence

Whenever an organization implements a new process, updates an existing process, deploys new technology, or fine-tunes services, its leaders must be mindful that even a simple change to a single process can start a domino effect, introducing issues in a range of other processes that must also be addressed. AIM Change Management Certification.

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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. Of course, live employees remain available to help customers as needed. I had to learn a lot in a short amount of time.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO Business Intelligence

“Often, technical leaders don’t devote sufficient time to communication, change management, and stakeholder management,” he observes. Hafez adds that most modernization projects typically fail due to a lack of a realistic expectations, defined requirements, and ineffective change management.

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CIOs must become chief IT evangelists

CIO Business Intelligence

After all, change management is a vital component of digital transformation success. Evangelizing for that change — from the very beginning — can make all the difference. Of course, the “customer” audience that a CIO must sell digital initiatives to varies. Why be an evangelist? 1 for CIOs to do the selling.

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What is root cause analysis? A proactive approach to change management

CIO Business Intelligence

While RCA is a part of other frameworks and methodologies, there are training programs and courses designed to focus on helping people better understand how to perform the analysis.

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IT leaders’ top 9 takeaways from 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

The disparity in adoption levels revealed a very real change management curve that required enhanced support and coaching to help teams integrate these solutions, Downing explains. What we all need to do is make sure our teams are prepared, even though were not close to figuring out how much any job will change, he says.

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