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What Sports Have Taught Me as an IT Leader

What Sports Have Taught Me as an IT Leader
What can a 10 km race teach a leader about motivating a team? Why can playing football with clients make difficult conversations easier? And how do you know when persistence is no longer the right strategy? In a Global CIO international open talk, seven professionals from IT, business and leadership consulting shared personal experiences from sport and the lessons they apply at work. Their stories explore how leaders build trust, respond to setbacks, support their teams and decide when to keep going or let go.

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Anar Askarbekovna Zaripova
Anar AskarbekovnaZaripova
Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor
Kyrgyz National University named after J. Balasagyn
Customer Kyrgyz National University named after J. Balasagyn
IT provider Oscar & Sons Group
Manoj Srivastava
ManojSrivastava
Chief Information Officer
Easy Trip Planners Limited
Customer Easy Trip Planners Limited
IT provider EaseMyTrip
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Art of the future and the digital amnesia syndrome. How technology affects culture

The Global CIO platform hosted an unusual discussion titled “Creativity + technology = art of the future” which tackled the issues of IT in the cultural and social areas. For the first time, we decided to discover how and how much modern technologies are transforming art. Below you can find a video recording of our conversation along with the speakers’ most memorable quotes.

A modern IT leader is a visionary and a strategist

The company Kolesa.kz is engaged in the construction of classified products in large volumes, being the only company providing such services in Kazakhstan.

Halyk Bank: how to attract and retain IT specialists

JSC "Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan" ("Halyk Bank") is the largest universal commercial bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, successfully working for the benefit of its customers for more than 97 years.  Anton Musin, Chief Managing Director for IT and Innovation, told about what tools and methods Halyk Bank uses for this and which of them works best.

How to harness IT project costs

The Data-driven approach, with decisions made based on array analysis, is becoming a priority in managing a business and its individual functions. Companies collect large amounts of information from hundreds of sources to use it for their digital services and analytics systems development. This process runs along with the endless growth of an IT infrastructure that can store data and ensure its quick processing. Due to possible hardware shortages and higher prices, IT costs may go up significantly. 

HeadHunter is about love
The new hero of the "Top 100 IT Leaders" project is HeadHunter (hh.ru) IT Director Gennady Beregovsky.

HeadHunter (hh.ru) is the largest online recruiting platform in Russia, with over 450,000 companies as its clients. The goal of HeadHunter is to help companies find employees and people find jobs, and to make sure that the process of finding employees and jobs is fast and brings only positive impressions to both parties.
Global CIO встреча в Ташкенте, Узбекистан, 2024
В июне 2024 года профессиональное IT-сообщество Global CIO провело ежегодную встречу с IT-лидерами из Узбекистана. Целью мероприятия был обмен передовым опытом, передовой практикой и знакомство с IT-лидерами из стран Центральной Азии. Основная часть встречи была посвящена выступлениям спикеров ведущих компаний Узбекистана, которые поделились своим опытом цифровой трансформации.
Обзор подходов и процессов в управлении ИТ-проектами

Артем Каливанов, CIO Beeline Узбекистан, обсудил управление ИТ-проектами с точки зрения определения проекта, моделей управления, таких как Waterfall и Agile методологии, и важность Lean в управлении процессами. Он выделил ключевые процессы, такие как организационная структура, мониторинг прогресса и адаптация к неопределенностям проекта.

Three Approaches to Developing an IT Strategy: What's Right for Your Company?

More and more companies are getting involved in the development of IT strategies and digital transformation strategies. This process accelerated after in 2021 the Ministry of Digital Transformation in a directive order demanded from large state-owned companies the development of digital heating.

 Contest Project of the Year
The international annual contest, Project of the Year, was established by the professional IT community Global CIO. Its mission is to discover, consolidate, and promote the best IT practices implemented by CIOs in different countries
The Project of the Year contest provides a great opportunity for CIOs to share their experiences and gain recognition from colleagues worldwide
Digital Twins: emergence of a new product.

With a growing number of digital twins and virtual tests, the demand for manufacturers’ data on the state and quality of the products supplied will also be increasing.

The hidden facets of digital twins: why is virtual testing different from physical?

When using digital twins, industrial companies are facing a problem that has been little talked about in public discussions and the media. Between virtual testing with digital twins and physical object testing, quite significant discrepancies, as much as 30-40%, are often found. Why is that? Andrey Labutin, head of the JSC V.A. Degtyarev Plant’s IT department, will talk about one of the possible reasons in his series of publications.

Talent in the AI Era: What CIOs Need to Change in Teams, Training, and Workforce Design

AI has turned talent strategy into an execution issue, not just a hiring one. The challenge now is not filling vacancies but redesigning how teams are managed, trained, and scaled. Organisations need to adapt to a new generation of employees, accelerate capability building, make AI literacy part of everyday readiness, and use AI to reduce repetitive work without losing control of delivery.

Vadim Ulanov, Ferrero Russia: “In Agile, mistakes are part of the process”

Until recently, the Agile concept was only used by the most advanced IT companies. However, Agile software development has proven so effective that it is being adopted by companies from a wide variety of industries. Why has Agile gained such popularity? Can this methodology be applied to any company, or are there limitations? Find out more in our new issue of “10 Questions to an Expert”.

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