10 ways to kill your IT culture [Video]

From micromanaging to lacking a pragmatic vision that inspires change, IT leaders can inadvertently impact their ability to foster an IT culture primed to deliver business results.

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Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Without a strong IT culture, inspiring IT teams to extend beyond their “run the business” responsibilities into areas requiring collaboration between business colleagues, data scientists, and partners is challenging.

Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them. In the study by Dale Carnegie, 73% of leaders felt their culture was very good or better concerning others being accountable, compared to 48% of team members. Additionally, 84% of leaders believed their organizations had strong teamwork compared to 60% of team members.

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