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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. Private conversations are accommodated by small conference rooms or a walk about the parking lot. Job requirement determines the size. I Think Not.

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Today's CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer

Harvard Business Review

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. Transformation Drivers.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. Comstock is out.

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Case Study: Should You Adjust Your Business Model for a Major Customer?

Harvard Business Review

The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings.

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Back at Calidad de Vida's corporate offices that afternoon, Gloria asked Daniel Hernandez, her CFO, and Diana Correa, her deputy director, to join her in the company's lone conference room, a windowless space made cheerful by photos of smiling elderly people on the walls and the same bright green chairs found in the centers.