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Unlocking Digital Leadership: CIO Executive Search

N2Growth Blog

A competent digital leader can bring about improved operational efficiency, enhanced customer experiences, and a culture of innovation, laying the foundation for net new businesses or products within the organization.

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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

Rather it indicates a true technologist in the form of a Chief Technology or Chief Information Officer. Someone who understands enterprise technology systems and has managed decisions relating to them. Getting back to Target, major kudos to the board for having excellent operational experience.

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The Ballooning Executive Team

Harvard Business Review

A change began to occur in the 1970s as functional managers slowly joined BU leaders and COOs on the top team. CFOs were the first functional chiefs to join, followed in the 1980s by Chief Strategy Officers (CSOs). The 1990s saw the appearance of Chief Information Officers, Chief Marketing Officers and others.

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A System for Speaking IT Truths to CEOs

Harvard Business Review

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. CEOs don't want to hear that. Enlist a business ally.

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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. Success stories of Big-Data-enabled innovation remain relatively few at this stage.

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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

As diverse forces such as social media, climate change, urban migration, and sprawl continue to upend the status quo, employing every tool and service available to help societies respond to disruption is critical. million citizens but is larger in landmass than Switzerland; as a result, many towns do not have a nearby government office.