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With the threat landscape rapidly evolving, leaders have to be “really innovative and creative” about how to protect data, said our panelists during a recent webinar. Increasingly, that means looking at outside resources to fill technology and talent needs.
Having served in provider roles, as a consultant, and now as a vendor executive, Drex DeFord, Executive Healthcare Strategist with CrowdStrike, has just about seen it all. As such, it’s not surprising he’s picked up some best practices along the way. Among them are how important governance is to ensure the IT department is working on the right things, how to handle reduced budgets, and the benefits of allowing everyone on the team to work at the top of their license. In this Partner Perspective interview with healthsystemCIO Founder and Editor-in-Chief Anthony Guerra, DeFord offers some keys to handling these issues and many others.
With many organizations still operating in remote or hybrid environments, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to facilitate collaboration and ensure teams stay connected to the overall mission, said our panelists. “We want to develop that rapport that you can’t get remotely.”
Creating a culture in which individuals feel empowered to raise their hands – and leaders are willing to admit when a strategy isn’t working – is one of the keys to successful adaptive risk management, according to our panelists.
The most effective way to measure your organization’s ransomware readiness isn’t by passing the red team test, but rather, by failing it, said CISOs Dan Bowden and Erik Decker during a recent panel discussion.
An organization can spend all the money on all the right tools, and it still might not be recognized as Most Wired, says Drex DeFord, who talks about the revamped process. “It’s not about buying things; it’s about doing things well.”
Whether you’re a social butterfly or a social media “fly on the wall,” there are many ways to join the conversation at HIMSS, says Drex DeFord, one of 20 Social Media Ambassadors who will be on hand at the show.
When it comes to going lean, the best strategy is a sneak attack, say Drex DeFord and Wes Wright, who believe one of the biggest mistakes leaders make in implementing process improvement methodologies is trying to do too much, too soon. If anyone would know the ins and outs of going lean, it’s DeFord, a […]
I’ve never really subscribed to a formal mentoring philosophy. Mentoring has just happened for me. To me. Usually without a lot of structure and with zero fanfare. I’m sure this means I lack style, and further signals my unwillingness to go along with the mentoring “norm”. It might also signal my unwillingness to put the […]
Thu 19 Jul 16:45 via Twitter for Blackberry @marxists (CIO, Texas Health Resources) writes — Humility is the X factor for superior leadership. #ahasummit #yam Thu 19 Jul 16:46 via Twitter for iPhone @drexdeford (VP/CIO, Steward Health Care) writes — Collins: The x-factor of good leadership is humility, and will to hire people smarter than […]
