In 2020, readers unsurprisingly gravitated toward content focused on navigating disruption, uncertainty, and change. The most popular articles of the year tackled themes such as working remotely, confronting bias, and building individual, team, and organizational resilience.
The following are 12 of the most widely read articles we published this past year. We hope they continue to inspire you as you lead your team in 2021.
For many senior executives, data presents a conundrum. Naturally, they want their data programs to succeed. Indeed, they’d like to help in some way, and even provide leadership, but beyond providing funding, they’re not sure how.
Over the past four years, many of the United States’ geopolitical alliances have been remade with bewildering speed. It’s no surprise that many of those changes created an uproar — some of these relationships dated back a century or more and seemed sacrosanct, until they weren’t.
As we approach these final days of 2020, a year that has tested our society like few others in recent memory, it’s safe to say that many people are looking forward to putting this year behind them. However, 2020 has also shed light on so many systemic issues facing individuals and companies across the globe that we would be remiss if we didn’t reflect on the lessons that we can take into the future.
As we come to the end of a crazy 2020, many of us are suffering from COVID-19 exhaustion. But as two vaccines begin their rollouts, we’ve also begun to visualize what post-pandemic life might be like. Most would agree that the new normal that begins to take shape in 2021 won’t be the old one.
By Farid Bichareh , CTO, AASA, Inc. (Excerpted from IIC Tech Brief Digital Transformation in Manufacturing: Key Insights & Future Trends ) The global pandemic is shaping a different world. In this new world, despite the short-term decrease in demand, in the medium-to-long run, the COVID-19 digital transformation impact seems to be extremely positive
One of the key attributes of the lean startup approach popularized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries is the development and refinement of a minimum viable product (MVP) that engages customer and investor attention without large product development expenditures.
If you were to ask any major CEO about good management practices today, data-driven decision-making would invariably come up. Companies have more data than ever, but many executives say their data analytics initiatives do not provide actionable insights and produce disappointing results overall. 1 In practice, making decisions with data often comes down to finding a purpose for the data at hand.
For companies that struggle with data transformations, underthinking organizational change is often a bigger problem than technology issues. A company can have powerful tools and meaningful data at its disposal, but without the proper education and processes to put that data in the hands of the right people and provide business context, extracting value can prove difficult.
The increasing attention being paid to artificial intelligence raises important questions about its integration with humanity, according to David De Cremer, author of the book ‘Leadership by Algorithm.’
Kasey Panetta, Senior Content Marketing Manager at Gartner, sits down with Mary Mesaglio , Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, to discuss the seven traits of these highly successful digital leaders and why it’s so important that they be curious about new things, understand the difference between creativity and innovation, and never consider digital to be the outcome.
Digital leaders are clear on where they need to be exponentially better and where they can copy, since that’s not the reason people buy from the organization.
IT professionals are gaining more opportunities to move up the corporate ladder. Here are 10 C-level IT titles that we know of right now, along with salary averages for those roles.
The Gartner CEO Survey found that the crisis has led 65% of CEOs to focus more on accelerating digital business transformation.
“Scale up the digital mainstream, but don’t push experimental extremes,” said Raskino.
In an era of constant change, companies’ data and analytics capabilities must rapidly adapt to ensure that the business survives, never mind competes. Organizations seek
