Charles Araujo

Founder

Charles Araujo is a technology analyst and internationally recognized authority on the Digital Enterprise and Leadership in the Digital Era who advises technology companies and enterprise leaders on how to navigate the transition from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era. Having spent over thirty years in the technology industry, he has been researching Digital Transformation long before it became the uber-buzzword of today, and is now focused on helping Digital Era Leaders prepare themselves and their organizations as the macro trends of the primacy of the customer and the primacy of the algorithm collide, ushering us into what he calls The New Human Age.

Former Principal Analyst with Intellyx, founder of The Institute for Digital Transformation, author of three books, and most recently the co-founder (with his wife) of The MAPS Institute, he is a sought-after keynote speaker and has been quoted or published in CIO, Time, InformationWeek, CIO Insight, NetworkWorld, Computerworld, USA Today, and Forbes.

Charlie has published the following articles on our site:

The Four Pillars: The Secret to IT Transformation

The Four Pillars: The Secret to IT Transformation

The key to transforming your IT team includes redefining leadership, bridging organizational silos, mastering the customer equation and catalyzing change ... Read More
Building a True Learning Organization

Building a True Learning Organization

Becoming a learning organization is the basis for creating a culture of service and innovation. It also helps bind your ... Read More
The Three Attitudes of a Disciplined IT Department

The Three Attitudes of a Disciplined IT Department

To be trusted, IT organizations should focus on the customer experience, communicate proactively and effectively, and choose adaptability over rigor ... Read More
The Courage of the Transparent CIO

The Courage of the Transparent CIO

CIOs need to be open and honest about IT projects. Otherwise, their customers will not be able to make informed ... Read More
You Need to be an Emotionally Aware Leader

You Need to be an Emotionally Aware Leader

As we enter a new era for IT organizations, our next generation of leaders will have to embrace the idea ... Read More
Are You Brave Enough to be an Intimate Leader?

Are You Brave Enough to be an Intimate Leader?

When you understand a customer, their business and their challenges on a deep level, you are able to identify emerging ... Read More
The Future Belongs to the Dynamic Organization

The Future Belongs to the Dynamic Organization

In dynamic organizations, IT isn't regarded as a cost center or a necessary evil. Instead, IT is part of the ... Read More
The Five Traits of the Digital Renaissance Man

The Five Traits of the Digital Renaissance Man

IT needs more leaders who possess the necessary breadth of knowledge and experience to help organizations deal with the business ... Read More
Creating the IT Organization of the Future

Creating the IT Organization of the Future

Being a Digital Renaissance Man demands that you see technology as a tool than can truly transform the world, for ... Read More