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The Weekly Digest - July 30, 2021
TLC in Digital Transformation, IT-Business Alignment, and Leading from Anywhere | Your TNCR Weekly Digest
Weekly Digest | July 30, 2021
TRENDING
TLC in Digital Transformation
In this article, CIO Keith Bethel dives into the CIO’s role of taking business strategies to the next level. Incorporating lean concepts and effective change management is vital in digital transformation, and Bethel provides a step-by-step guide on how to ensure a smooth implementation of digital solutions. Read More...
TECH TIME TRAVEL
Two Weeks to Two Minutes
July 27, 1866 - The first transatlantic telegraph cable was successfully put into service for public use. This cable ran all the way from Heart's Content in Newfoundland, Canada, to Valentia Island, Ireland. This amazing feat cut down communication time between Europe and the Americas considerably - allowing both a message and a response in the same day. Prior to this, communications between the continents took place only via ship. Now, however, they could transmit eight words a minute - 80 times faster than the first cable attempt which had failed in 1858 due to the deterioration of the cable's insulation. What used to take over two weeks, now happened within minutes.And to think after all that - we're using email to send this out within seconds!Read More: First transatlantic telegraph cable completed, How Perseverance Laid the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
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LEADERSHIP
How CIOs Can Speed up the Hiring Process
With a tight labor market creating a high demand for technology positions, optimizing hiring processes through more efficient practices is key to lock in top talent. In this article, TNCR Contributing Writer Brian Carlson provides tactics for CIOs to communicate to their managers to ensure top employees are not lost to competition. Read More...
BUSINESS
Why We Should NOT Talk About IT-Business Alignment
In this article for The National CIO Review, Contributing CIO Harsha Bellur explores the IT-Business Alignment debate. Harsha shares ideas on growing business value with technology. Now is the time for IT to influence and contribute to the business strategy. Read More...
CIO BOOKSTORE
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
Structured around the life cycle of working on a team, Burkus tackles the key inflection points and challenges that remote managers face, from taking the team remotely and adding new members to communicating effectively and quickly, managing performance, keeping the team engaged, and even helping them strike the right balance between work and life. Leading from Anywhere provides everything you’ll need to survive and thrive as the leader of a remote team—something all leaders will need to consider themselves from now on. Read More...
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