Increasing the RPMs of reinvention

9 projects top of mind for IT leaders today

CIOs today are looking to drive a new wave of transformation armed with artificial intelligence, generative AI, and now AI agents, too.

“If I had to name the top projects CIOs are driving today, it’s clear the agenda is shaped by one word: reinvention,” says Tejas Patel, leader of tech strategy and advisory for APAC at professional services firm Accenture.

The great IT disconnect: Vendor visions of the future vs. IT’s task at hand

The future is built one task at a time. Ideally, each task, while supremely relevant to the problem at hand, is consistent with a multistep trek to a shared and explicitly articulated end state. In uncertain times, many IT tasks-at-hand are not solidly connected to future end points.

At WestJet, McKesson, and KeySpan, CIO Cheryl Smith, author of The Day Before IT Transformation, ensured every system put into production and every piece of code deployed was architected to last and be consistent with a future seven years hence.

The 7 unwritten rules of leading through crisis

Virtually all enterprises have some form of crisis management plan in place. Yet simply creating a crisis management program isn’t enough. What’s often more important are the unwritten rules that help ensure the program is executed effectively when crisis hits.

Whether you’re facing a data breach, a production outage, or a cloud misconfiguration gone wrong, how you manage a crisis can make or break the trust in your team and your technology, says Trevor Young, chief product officer at cybersecurity technology and services provider Security Compass. “I’ve seen how critical crisis management is across all domains — especially as systems become more complex and threats more dynamic.”

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