IT leadership

  • Marketing Success in the Age of AI Requires a Modern Marketing Data Stack

    We’ve looked at actual adoption and usage within the Snowflake Data Cloud to explore how our customers use technology to target customers, navigate complex privacy challenges, and incorporate seismic forces like generative AI. To help marketers understand the rapidly changing world of data

  • Announcing the Thinkers50 2023 Breakthrough Idea Award Shortlist

    In his new book, Autonomous Transformation: Creating a More Human Future in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Wiley, 2023), Brian weaves strategy, management thinking, economics, systemic design, and philosophy into actionable steps for managers seeking to harness AI for the betterment of

  • The Power of Distinct Owners as Value Catalysts

    The second pillar for value creation pertains to the development of an effective software among the three boards that jointly govern owner-led firms. After all, ownership, governance and value creation are inherently dependent

  • Struggling to Build AI Teams? It’s Time to Focus on Skills

    That means that leaders will likely need to change how they think about these roles to move the needle on their AI product development. That means letting go of preconceptions around titles and searching for the right person for the

  • What Cybersecurity Gets Wrong

    This, says Jones, is often the result of “an executive team who doesn’t take cybersecurity seriously and views IT security spending as a project cost, rather than as an investment in brand protection.” In addition to the shortage

  • customer experience (CX)

    Customer experience (CX) is the sum total of customers’ perceptions and feelings resulting from interactions with a brand’s products and services. Empowered employees feel valued and motivated, leading to positive

  • steering committee

    For example, the steering committee plays a vital role in ensuring that all IT projects support and drive the organization’s business goals and objectives. Smaller organizations or those that do not rely heavily on IT might still find a steering committee helpful in guiding their IT strategy and managing their IT

  • Hype Cycle Season: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    Use The Hype Cycle to Support CEOs’ Digital Transformation Agenda In the 2023 Gartner CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey, around 85% of CEOs in supply-chain-intensive industries plan to increase investments in

  • IT organization (information technology organization)

    This includes IT administrators, engineers, managers and executives, such as the chief information officer (CIO) or chief technology officer ( CTO ), who are tasked with planning, implementing, maintaining and updating the IT

  • The Importance of Mission-Fueled Leadership in Cybersecurity

    Industry leaders have lost a fundamental part of what makes the cybersecurity sector so important: empathy and passion for doing good in the world through their work. People-focused leadership in the cybersecurity

  • Announcing the Thinkers50 2023 Strategy Award Shortlist

    Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse are the authors of The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future (MIT Press, 2023). He is the author of five books, most recently the Edison Award-

  • CFOs and IT Spending: Best Practices for Cost-Cutting

    He says the way he tends to approach this is by working with the CIO to identify the applications that are main “sources of truth” for key corporate data. Amy Lindenmeyer, CFO at Keeper Security, says the CFO and CIO