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What percentage of your organization's teams have adopted Agile practices?

People & Leadership DevOps Business Relationships+1 more

100%

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50%

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How often does your organization test its disaster recovery plan?

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A CISO would be most effective if they reported directly into...?

People & Leadership Engineering Governance, Risk & Compliance+16 more

Board

CEO

CIO

CTO

What CISO?

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Which approach would you be most open to if a sales rep was to engage you for the first time?

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What's hindering attracting talent at your organization?

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Salary and benefits

Lack of advancement opportunities

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Do you agree with this prediction? Through 2023, 50% of IT leaders will struggle to move their AI projects past proof of concept to a production level of maturity.

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Who do you feel should pay for career development training courses?

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Your workplace should pay and allow company time to train.

Your workplace should pay but you train on your own time.

Employee should pay and train on their own time.

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SaaS compliance audits today are sufficiently thorough.

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Does your enterprise have an internal talent marketplace?

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Why should IT and digital leaders be trained in environmental sustainability?

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturing9 months ago

ES awareness is important as it allows an organization to comply with industry standards and environmental requirements. By being proactive, the likelihood of legal problems and possible financial fines for non-compliance ...read more

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Why is environmental sustainability important for IT leaders and digital experts driving digital transformation?

Process Management

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturing8 months ago

For IT leaders and digital experts driving digital transformation, environmental sustainability is vital for several key reasons:

Ethical Imperative: The IT industry contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, with ...read more

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If you were to educate IT leaders to be more environmentally sustainable in digital transformation efforts, how would you approach it?

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When using Gartner MQ, what do most people tend to overlook?

Applications & Platforms

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

1) That the quadrant chart itself is probably the least interesting part of the report (vs the market overview and context sessions, which tell the story of what's going on in that market).
2) That a vendor isn't ...read more

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Please share good practices and learnings from SAP Global Trade Services implementation. Considering the complexity of trade compliance domain with many country-specific variations, what are potential pitfalls?

Applications & Platforms Enterprise Applications Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

nail down requirements at a very detailed level up front. Be careful from deviating from the requirements when it comes to limiting scope creep.

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When a leader finds themselves constrained by superiors and unable to exercise independence in decision-making, what strategies can they employ to address this challenge?

Personal Development Culture & Values

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

My personal experience.

I usually get the feedback and go back with data driven analysis providing details to cross leaders to understand the context and make decision basis data and and not gut feeling.

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What are the top 3 necessary skills required for a successful enterprise IT leader?

Enterprise & IT Service Management (ITSM)Strategy & Architecture Applications & Platforms+1 more

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

1. Communication
2. Emotional intelligence
3. Humane leadership

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Which generative AI prompt do you mostly commonly use?

AI & Machine Learning Generative AI

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

rewrite in 5 ways

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Share your best advice/learning in creating win-win situations with vendors/service providers?

Relationship Management Partnerships

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

Always have at least three vendors in your pocket, who can do the same job/service for you. Use each of them as a sanity check to make sure you are getting competitive pricing and features/services. If the one you're ...read more

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In one word, will you describe the impact you expect GenAI to have on your industry in the next 5 years?

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Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

Hedonic

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What advice would you give to someone who is interested in a career in technology?

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

I would tell that person to be curious, open-minded and to learn about the business sector operations. Successful IT workers know their business, its objectives and its challenges. A language or a framework is not the ...read more

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Has your organization removed college degree requirements from any job openings in IT? If so, has that increased the applicant pool? If not, is it something being considered?

Talent Sourcing & Hiring Training & Certification

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

We haven't eliminated them, but we now require either a degree or equivalent experience. While I value degrees, I don't see it as an absolute necessity. I'm more interested in the person and their problem-solving ...read more

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How do you gauge whether a jr. dev candidate is a fast learner or not?

Talent Sourcing & Hiring Talent Management & Performance Software Development

Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

Ask the candidate to solve a problem that is practically irrelevant.

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What's your take on the idea of having a Chief AI Officer as part of the leadership team?

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Rajiv RenganathanIT Director, Supply Chain in Manufacturinga year ago

It will be a good start for the organization to start experimenting knowing well it will take a couple of interations before a working model is discovered.

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