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Do you trust the data & reports from the big analysts?

Strategy & Architecture

Yes

Sometimes

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Are you happy in your current role?

People & Leadership Talent Management & Performance

Yes

Unsure

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Which browser do you use at work?

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Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge

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What are organizations using for annual employee performance evaluations and tracking leadership development progress?

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How much of your organizations budget goes towards new technology?

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3-5%

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Is your role at your organization expanding to include new responsibilities?

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Data Analytics

Operations

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What do you do with unsolicited vendor gifts?

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Keep it

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In the future, over 50% of any organization's workforce will be remote at any given time.

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How useful is your LinkedIn feed to you as a professional?

Productivity Tools

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Which tech company would you be most proud to work at?

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Google

Amazon

Tesla

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What does equity mean in the context of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Culture & Values Team & Organizational Design

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

Equality simply means that everybody's treated the same, but not everybody is equal. As for equity, the example I've been given before is a scenario in which three people of different heights are all trying to look ...read more

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Would you make a purchasing decision based on what a cloud company's commitments are to ESG areas?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Smart Cities & Sustainability Strategy & Architecture

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

We're starting to see a bit of an uptick in ESG metrics from companies, because people are getting more cognizant about it. At this point, I haven't made a buying decision from a product perspective based on ESG commitments, ...read more

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What specific things can leaders do to advance ESG goals?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Smart Cities & Sustainability Strategy & Architecture

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

When talking about diversity and inclusion, one of the things I told my boss was that if you want a more diverse pipeline at the bottom of the funnel, you have to diversify the top of the funnel. If you're still recruiting ...read more

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Why do you need to use metrics to track diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives?

Governance, Risk & Compliance KPIs, Metrics & Reporting Portfolio, Program & Project Management

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

Diversity issues are such a mirror to what we're struggling with in terms of environmental and sustainability concerns, in many different ways — generically speaking, measures are critical. But what do we do for DEI when ...read more

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Everything my company runs on is cloud-based — what can we do to address environmental sustainability?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Smart Cities & Sustainability Cloud

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

I've challenged myself and the team to think about things from an environmental standpoint, because we all know ESG is coming to the forefront of standards for operating a company. Being a cloud-focused company, our actual ...read more

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Should we think about environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals in terms of equity, sustainability and safety?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Smart Cities & Sustainability Culture & Values

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

I hadn't put ESG in that framework of equity, sustainability and safety before; I'm not sure I've thought it all through yet, but I like it superficially. We're still a small outfit, although we've doubled ...read more

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What is your organization’s strategy for improving sustainability?

Smart Cities & Sustainability Governance, Risk & Compliance IT Strategy & Roadmap

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

I run an organization called Infrastructure Masons (iMasons), which is a professional association of builders of the digital age. We have people in almost every country, who run some of the biggest portfolios in the world, ...read more

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How can we improve the environmental sustainability of data centers?

Data Center Design Data Center Strategy Smart Cities & Sustainability

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

We have to apply software-defined principles to data centers; from there, we’ll be able to eke out incredible efficiencies. Right now we're not getting the utilization we should as a result of historic behaviors and policies ...read more

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What future developments are you seeing for ESG?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Innovation Smart Cities & Sustainability

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

Things move when there's demand and money, so the investment community has shifted. The big private equity or venture capital investment firms are shifting into either primary investment in ESG-related technology or only ...read more

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How are ESG or sustainability metrics evolving?

KPIs, Metrics & Reporting Governance, Risk & Compliance Smart Cities & Sustainability

Dean NelsonCEO at Cato Digital in Manufacturing2 years ago

My CEO sees a lot of opportunity for us on the ESG side, so we've been looking into different things. In a sense, we write compliance reports so that companies can get customers. ESG is interesting in that context because, ...read more

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