Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

Sure, real friendships may emerge overtime, but if Bill starts avoiding your calls after you’ve quit your big CIO job, don’t let it undermine your confidence. Recognize that, for many of the people you encounter when you’re in a power seat, buttering you up is their job… pure and simple.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Some CEOs Still Disregard Social Media (CIO Insight). According to a Zeno Group study — as reported by Dennis McCafferty at CIO Insight — some CEOs don’t really give a damn about social media. Louis Cardinals in 2006 and 2011, when the team won the World Series. Sadly, many will be demolished. SAY IT AIN'T SO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million records).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

As a consequence, CIOs work on go-to-market strategies as well as on acquiring and retaining new customers. Just recently, InfoWorld magazine pointed out that CIOs have split into two groups: those who are driving value and those who are still trapped inside the data center.

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CIO Information Technology Forrester Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. In recent years, incumbents have fought back. Big-box retailers, like Best Buy, now have large, fast growing e-commerce businesses.

Technology 14

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Ina Drew was in the bank's High Five in the proxy statement, with more than $15 million in total comp in 2010 and 2011 (cash, bonus, stock awards).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

According to former CIO John Leggate : "People always had a good reason for meetings. As we discuss in our next HBR article (coming in July 2011), collaborative leadership is a poorly understood yet crucial new leadership skill. You're sharing best practices. You're having good conversations with like-minded people.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts. My father worked at IBM for 35 years.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

In 2011, GE embarked upon an ambitious attempt to digitally transform its product and service offerings. A charismatic CIO or Chief Digital Officer may make it even harder to be level-headed in those heady times. Yagi Studios/Getty Images.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 10, 2012

Life as a Healthcare CIO : Servant Leadership. Information Week : Healthcare CIOs Should Become Servant Leaders. Southwest Airlines 2011 Results Reflect Benefits of Servant Leadership. Zambia Saturday Post Online : Michael Has What is Most Needed in a Leader. ” U.S. Mark Sanborn Interview – Up, Down, or Sideways.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. The CIO of HP Inc., running out of ink), and it enticed many customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

These reports — one from a company task force and a second from a review committee of the board — were overshadowed by two items announced the same day: the related news that the bank board had slashed CEO Jamie Dimon's annual compensation in half — from $23 million in 2011 to $11.5

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

It languished for months until 7/11/2011, during the company''s birthday celebration, when franchise managers started sharing merchandizing practices. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Technology investments work the same way. The managers haven''t stopped talking to each other. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. The grand vision at the heart of his last project is now being unveiled as Apple finalizes construction on Apple Park.

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