Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. That’s the bane of the existence of the CIO.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. Only a quarter of executives felt their CIO was performing above his or her peers.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

As evidence of marketing’s central role, just look at which department in your firm is commanding the fastest-growing share of the technology budget and attracting the lion’s share of data analysts and data scientists. CIOs and CMOs must meet in the middle. Information & technology Marketing'

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. It requires new modes of operation. There is no time for complacency.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

However, when we ask CIOs how their "enabling" is going, they consistently respond that sometimes it goes well; sometimes not so much. At a recent CIO roundtable, one CIO said that the demand for IT in his company is infinite. And other CIOs nodded in agreement. These are finite resources.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

They''re using these tool and technologies to add value to existing processes or, indeed, to create new "just-in-time" processes (and programs) that the C-suite and other senior managers had never envisioned. observed that technology had fundamentally changed how America''s special operations command managed its special forces warriors.

Media 8

Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. Most importantly, the training can help leaders be much more effective in overseeing chief information officers (CIOs), and chief information-security officers (CISOs).

Training 9

Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Most African corporations, especially in the private sector, are only now in a position to think deeply about information technology (IT). The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy. Intriguingly, the African IT manager has very little influence over the enterprise as a whole. What do we have here then?

CIO 15

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? But security?

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Much as war is too important to be left to the generals, the business of network effects is too valuable to be entrusted to the CMOs and CIOs. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These should be rolling strategies that are flexible enough to consider the dynamics of the industries you will operate in. It''s no small task, but you can move your company into the cloud if you approach things with a new mind and put aside the technologies of the past. The CIO In Crisis: What You Told Us.

Directory 8

Directory Company IAM CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

How do they adopt an intelligent-store strategy that incorporates associates, shoppers, changing technology, new consumer behaviors, and the store itself? Our shopper in aisle three would need the store's Wi-Fi network and IT ecosystem to support the technology on his or her mobile device. But many retailers seem a bit overwhelmed.

Retail 15

Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

P&G''s CIO Filippo Passerini calls it "getting beyond the what to the why and the how." If decision-makers have to spend too much time with the data figuring out what has happened in an important area of operations, they may never get to why it happened, or how to address the issue. Income Data in Less Than a Minute.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

While a vanilla version of a software application can be okay (and many corporations use standard versions of major vendors’ ERP software), any choice should be a business decision made by business managers for operational and strategic reasons. Operating this way today is a big no-no in the corporate world.

Execution 8

Execution Hotels Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company.

CIO 8

CIO Information Technology Enterprise Architecture Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

As the drive toward increased digitization continues, enterprises have to get a handle on this total digitization — and corporate CIOs have to step up to the challenge. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. The timetable for implementing these projects is often months, not years.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Infrastructures are under assault technically, functionally, and financially.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. This approach lets organizations aggregate best-of-breed technologies to develop cost-effective solutions that advance their goals. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. technology firms.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

What do you do as CIO when people in your company start using a free cloud service that’s better than the similar service you deployed for them at great expense? Some 90% of companies’ cloud activity is attributable to individual employees and small teams, rather than corporations’ business-technology groups.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Policies Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8