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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. Getting back to Target, major kudos to the board for having excellent operational experience. There is also international expertise and diversity both in terms of gender and ethnicity.

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The Ballooning Executive Team

Harvard Business Review

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. Balance your inner cabinet.

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A System for Speaking IT Truths to CEOs

Harvard Business Review

Believe me, this skill comes in handy in the chief information officer's line of work: CIOs often have to tell CEOs that the large portfolios of legacy applications driving corporate operations are bound to fail sooner or later and need to be replaced. 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. .