Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Assign a leader to this organization and establish a leadership team to support that person. Filippo Passerini ’s leadership as President of P&G’s Global Business Services and CIO has been recognized as best-in-class in the industry.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 267

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Leaders like Ellyn Shook, the chief leadership and human resources officer at Accenture, actually carry around “dumb phones,” which don’t have any apps and can’t send or receive email. Leadership as service. They’re much less likely to get blindsided by the changes around them.

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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Take over responsibility and leadership. Tags: Human resources Managing people Managing yourself. Too often I hear even HR people saying, "HR is too important to be left to HR."

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CIO Human Resources Talent Management Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. Senior executive roles are increasingly interdependent, so it's less and less viable to remain a focused specialist.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Take over responsibility and leadership. Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"?

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

In a traditional business, there is little connectivity or co-creation, so the enterprise value is equal to the “mass” of the company — its human resources, financial assets, intellectual property, and physical goods. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Executive directors are usually selected for their leadership qualities; they often have experience with generalized management or leadership experience rather than narrow expertise or technical acumen. Why should knowledge of IT be an exception? The truth is that many industries today employ outdated technology.

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Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. If you want to stake out a leadership position in big data for your company — and I would encourage you to do so — you don't really have an alternative to joining the data scientist recruiting scrum.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CIO Consultative Resources 8