Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The findings are sobering: almost half of CEOs view their CIOs as out of step with the business and about the same percentage think IT should be a commodity service, purchased as needed. As Leni Kaufman noted: "I think often people come into a conference room, they come into a meeting, and then they talk IT. Don''t talk IT.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Which do you respond to first?

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

More humbly, incompatible communications networks and a less-than-proactive IT department drove a company''s supply chain and procurement teams to use LinkedIns, private Tweets and cut-and-paste Sharepoints to quickly coordinate go-to-market product changes with key vendors. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

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Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Around the world, P&G managers are conferring in such rooms, with embedded analysts from P&G''s Information and Decision Solutions group aiding their deliberations with Spotfire-enabled visuals. P&G''s CIO Filippo Passerini calls it "getting beyond the what to the why and the how." See below.)

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Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If they don’t like a company’s product, or an experience they had, the whole world will know about it. Making this connection can be more challenging for big established companies, whose primary success is built on products and value propositions from an earlier time. They already account for a third of the U.S.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. Second, data confers insight and advantage. As you progress in using data in operational and strategic applications, organizational changes will be inevitable.

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Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

This perspective created the industrial economy lens through which most managers perceive their operations. Microsoft provides productivity tools that create presentations quickly and efficiently. Serendipity Economy outcomes can''t be assigned a value associated with their means of production. Consider the slide deck.

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8