Why CIOs Should Report Directly To The CEO
When companies elevate the role, they reap significant benefits. Here are five critical ways it makes a difference.
When companies elevate the role, they reap significant benefits. Here are five critical ways it makes a difference.
The key lesson for CEOs and boards is that companies must be open and transparent with stakeholders about motivations and be willing to maintain updates to the project charter.
The technology offers significant business advantages, but also poses potentially serious compliance risks.
CEOs must adopt a holistic view of cybersecurity that integrates robust data layer controls. Consider the following strategic steps to reduce cyber risk—ultimately to mitigate financial risk.
Business leaders have lamented the loss of innovative spark that comes from in-person collaboration—but they don’t want to mandate return to the office. There might be a third option.
An ‘imagination gap’ may determine who wins and loses when it comes to implementing AI. Here’s what CEOs can do to succeed.
Innovative companies engage in tangible practices to foster experimentation — none of which require significant commitments of time or money.
Before diving headlong into this transformational but nascent technology, leaders should pause and ask themselves some fundamental questions.
How CEOs and their leaders can best prepare their organizations and their people for an AI-first world.
With cybersecurity talent scarce, companies should consider the unprecedented number of AI-displaced candidates who will soon be entering the job market with skills that can be trained to work in the field.
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Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
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Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
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10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
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General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.