Online Webinar – Recorded July 21 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Strategic thinking and critical analysis are valuable business acumen skills that have never been more important than they are now.

Providing focused and actionable insights is paramount to effective and efficient leadership, expanding digital dexterity, and supporting desired business outcomes.

This becomes essential as CIOs assume their roles in leading strategy execution across all parts of the organization. CIOs who understand that the ability to focus on strategic thinking and critical analysis can be made in different ways, times, and in various places across the organization adds dimension to the CIOs’ ability to add focused strategic value.

In this executive leadership webinar, Kevin Smith (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst will demonstrate how to adapt CIO strategies to deliver the maximum value to your expanding range of stakeholders.

You’ll understand how these “dimensions” of strategy development can help you recognize what you contribute, and how to tailor approaches accordingly to deliver the most value possible to a growing list of stakeholders.

Discussion Topics:

• Gain insight into the evolving discipline of strategy
• Identify the difference between strategic thinking tools and methods
• Understand the roles CIOs play in designing strategies with various groups

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CIOs, Strengthen Your Strategic Leadership Impact

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Live Webinar February 13th, 2023 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the top of the list of hot topics in Project Management.

Project Management has been evolving for decades and project managers must continue to adapt to the changes.

The current focus on Artificial Intelligence as a factor in project management has created a need for project managers to determine how AI will affect their role during project planning and implementation.

This presentation will review how AI is being used to enhance the role of the project manager and how it can increase the probability of completing a project successfully.

Topics covered in this webinar, include:

• How AI can expedite and simplify typical data-driven and labor-intensive project manager tasks.
• How AI can enhance the creativity of the project team when resolving issues or developing alternative solutions to a problem.
• How AI can assist in the risk assessment process includes identifying threats and opportunities.
• Provide insight into the “Human” side of AI and the concerns that are generated by its use.

Presenter: Frank P. Saladis PMP (LinkedIn profile) is a respected author, keynote speaker, and senior consultant for the International Institute for Learning Inc. (IIL).  Frank is also the originator of International Project Management Day, a day of recognition for project managers held during November each year.

Frank is the author of numerous highly regarded Books within the Project Management community and a popular series of articles entitled “Positive Leadership in Project Management”  He was awarded the 2006 Linn Stuckenbruck Person of the Year Award by PMI®. He is a past president of the PMI® New York City Chapter and was the Chair of the PMI Education and Training Specific Interest Group (EdSIG) through 2008.

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The AI Savvy Project Manager

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Online Webinar – Recorded August 3rd 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Many organizations struggle to manage and optimize their cloud environment in a way that is both effective and scalable.

IT leaders must understand the foundation of cloud governance and operations, manage cloud-related incidents on a daily basis, and enable application teams to use cloud services effectively.

n this webinar Ken Rothenberger (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director, Advisory will guide IT leaders through a framework for more effectively managing cloud environments. This framework is similar to how a managed service provider operates, and it focuses on “productizing” automation, engineering and operations capabilities to more effectively deliver cloud operations.

Discussion Topics:

• More effectively deliver cloud operations
• Understand software platforms, managed services, and consulting services
• Explore the Gartner framework for managing cloud environments

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Make Your Organization’s Cloud Environment More Effective & Scalable

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Online Webinar – Recorded Story July 26th 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Every leader across the organization must be able to tell a clear, impactful story to achieve success. Still, you and your intended audience can significantly change how that story is told.

Join a panel of Gartner experts; Maria Boulden (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP, Executive Partner, Dennis Gannon (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP, Advisory, & Steve Miranda (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Executive Partner;  all former departmental leaders in their respective fields, including Sales, HR, Finance, and IT – share their experiences and insights on crafting unique stories that generated success for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

This is a must-watch program for any leader in the organization.

Discussion Topics:

• Find out how a leader’s role shapes the story they need to tell other leaders
• Unfold the right mix of emotion and data to craft an impactful story
• Get examples of how your peer leaders use storytelling to achieve their desired outcomes

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Impactful Storytelling: How To Tell Your Unique CXO Story

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 13, 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The main barriers for enterprises’ digital ambitions most often come from other business areas, not from IT. Enterprise culture ranks highest on the list of barriers to technology-related changes, according to the 2022 Gartner Technology-related Change and Fatigue Survey.

Yet, CIOs often feel powerless to help change their enterprise’s culture. This webinar will provide a step-by-step process for CIOs to lead enterprise culture change.

Find out how following a culture-twin framework will help CIOs to align the enterprise culture change to key business outcomes and shift the organization’s mindset.

Discussion Topics:

• Identify the main levers CIOs can use to change culture in the enterprise
• Engage your C-suite peers in changing the culture of the entire enterprise
• Understand how the culture-twin methodology works

Join Daniel Sanchez Reina (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Senior Director Analyst in this culture change session.

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Break the Barrier: How CIOs Can Lead Enterprise-wide Culture Change

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 20 2023
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Many CIOs struggle to successfully communicate the business value of their IT programs to business leaders. Communicating IT’s value requires a focus on business outcomes delivered and not IT systems managed, or work done.

To maximize the impact of business value messaging, CIOs should leverage seven rules which justify IT operating budgets, secure business funding in new projects, and show more strategic alignment to business priorities and objectives.

Join Robert Naegle (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst who  will explore seven rules that will help CIOs build a more compelling and impactful narrative to communicate the business value of IT.

Discussion Topics:

• Understand how to create a more compelling value of IT narrative
• Focus your value message to the people and things that matter
• Discover areas that hold back most IT value narratives

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The 7 Rules For CIOs To Effectively Demonstrate The Business Value Of IT

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