Thought Leadership | Technology Officers

Egon Zehnder's Wendi Zhang shares tips for excelling in your executive interview in the IT industry.

Drawing from experience working with boards and cybersecurity executives, explore insights to enhance your readiness to land your first board seat.

Egon Zehnder's Mayuri Patel and Gowri Rao discuss the talent needed to sell and market AI. (Note that this article may be behind a paywall and require a subscription.)

Lila Tretikov, Deputy Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Corp., shares how she empowers her teams to find solutions to society's most pressing problems.

Get practical guidance on the pivotal choice between consolidating product and technology leadership into a Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) or maintaining separate Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) roles.

Executive leadership teams are all asking one big question: How should we be handling Artificial Intelligence? To start to find the answers, the executive leadership team must understand their options in setting up a winning AI organization and their implications. In this article, we explore the pros and cons of four different constructs.

A new Egon Zehnder report, in partnership with Kearney, finds that AI's rapid growth is a contributing factor, with 73% of those surveyed feeling limited by time, people, and money.

Despite the common perception of IT as a predominantly technical function, the question arises: Can it play a crucial, strategic role in driving this transformative process?

To address critical questions related to the increasingly complex worlds of modern finance and insurance, Egon Zehnder’s Directors Development Program held a session for the participating board directors titled “Metaverse, AI, and Robotics: A Glimpse into the Future of Finance” with Harsha Kikkeri, CEO of HoloSuit.

Christoph Wollersheim, a member of the services and artificial intelligence practices group at global consulting firm Egon Zehnder, pinpoints five critical areas most organizations need to address when implementing AI: accuracy, bias, security, transparency, and societal responsibility.

Leaders assume a pivotal role in leveraging AI to unlock innovation and efficiency.

At varying stages in AI journeys, question is if a Chief AI Officer (CAIO) can steer an organization in the right direction towards true AI leadership?