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Turning Those Flabby Abs Into That Sexy Six-Pack

Marshall Goldsmith

“Don, our CEO, has been hearing some serious grumbling about Bill, our chief information officer,” she groaned. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. “Bill is 56 years old and has great experience.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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Just Using Big Data Isn’t Enough Anymore

Harvard Business Review

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012.

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CMOs and CIOs Increasingly See Eye to Eye

Harvard Business Review

For the past four years, Accenture has conducted an annual survey of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) to understand the state of their collaboration. Contrast this with 56 percent in 2012.) It was 77 percent in 2012.). This is a 16-point jump over 2012.

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Big Companies Are Embracing Analytics, But Most Still Don’t Have a Data-Driven Culture

Harvard Business Review

The actual respondents are changing somewhat from the first surveys: It has always involved a high proportion of C-level executives responsible for data, but this year chief data officers are 56% of the respondents, up from 32% last year. Only 12% of firms in the 2012 survey had even appointed a chief data officer.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 11/26/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

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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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. According to the 2012 IDC/EMC report on the digital universe (PDF) , it''s doubling every two years.

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