Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. The lesson here for new CIOs, in Higher Ed or elsewhere, is to know your audience and know them well.

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. Digital transformation requires new strengths.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Content Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. Today, CIOs and CEOs of large companies are faced with an overwhelming demand for digital transformation and a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice.

Agility 8

Agility Content CIO Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Over the last two years, we have been engaged in primary research with The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly known as the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global in an attempt to paint a picture of how the role of the CIO and the IT department is changing. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 9

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

To begin to answer these questions, we conducted some qualitative research, using in-depth interviews with about two dozen CIOs and senior IT managers whose organizations have evaluated or adopted cloud computing services. Agility is also a plus. How can managers generate competitive advantage from their cloud investments?

Competitive Advantage 14

Competitive Advantage Development CIO Survey 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Kim Stevenson , Intel''s CIO, summarizes the challenge well: "[IT functions have] gone through ERP, they''ve gone through BYO and they''ve gone through cloud, and they think they''ve done it all. It requires new modes of operation. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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?” The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. The Future of Operations.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. How well does the company use these tools for innovation, decision making, business-process design, and operations not just internally but also in its eco-system? Perhaps this is the time, at last, that the “I” in CIO gets the attention and focus it deserves.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

Marketing 9

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

How do we reduce the performance drag of top-heavy management structures, replace "manager-management" with a more agile self- or peer-management, and create a vibrant social system in the process? It's a big-ticket shift that is already yielding big impact — from employee engagement to increased agility to real performance gains.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer. the IT function).

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

CIO 9

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Companies deploying IoT successfully in industrial sectors such as manufacturing, oil and gas, mining, and transportation are seeking multiple agile partners with open IP architectures to co-create solutions. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. Software companies have developed an alternative approach (“Agile” and “ Scrum ”) that uses rapid cycle testing of product features to see what customers like. Decision making Operations'

Software 9

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 9