The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

Bedding in innovation. The latest example of digital governance in the country is the Digital Testbed Framework , which allows innovators from around the world to test out their ideas from within the digital government setting. ” Encouraging change. . ” Encouraging change. ” Growing interest.

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Innovation Technology CIO Benchmarking 111

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

CIOs CXO Talk Culture Enterasys Extreme Networks Innovation Leadership Networking Strategy Vala Afshar Value' So many incredible thanks to Vala Afshar for a great Huffington Post piece about my guest appearance last Friday, November 8th , for CXO Talk ! Here''s Vala''s view of our episode.

CIO 98

CIO Innovation Strategy Leadership 98

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Out Think: How Innovative Leaders Drive Exceptional Outcomes G. Shawn Hunter The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership […].

Wiseman 75

Wiseman CIO McKinsey Blog 75

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2016

CIOs become Aggregators of Business Capabilities : What does the CIO do, when there’s no Big IT to manage? Once more, these data storytellers, can organize and present their findings in compelling ways that serve to engage and inspire, raising them to the level of business strategists.

CIO 154

CIO Power Storytelling Technology 154

Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2012

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2012 that you might have missed: Engines of Innovation by @wallybock. SonyaShelton: SAP's CIO: You're Putting Your Executive Career at Risk if You're Not Social - Forbes. Two Words of Wisdom that will Change Your Life by @RonEdmondson. Do you make these body language mistakes ? Help us grow!

CIO 271

CIO Magazine Engineering Stress 271

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 17, 2013

Ray Attiyah is an entrepreneur, innovator, and author as well as founder & CIO of Definity Partners (a training, process and leadership improvement firm who works primarily with mid-sized manufacturing companies).

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CIO Wilde Drucker Entrepreneur 95

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

The study suggests that densely populated cities have a number of benefits, whether in terms of more innovation, higher productivity levels, better access to private and public services, and even a greater preservation of green spaces.

GDP 139

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 139

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Enterprise IT as we have known it is rapidly becoming obsolete, and the traditional role of the CIO is increasingly irrelevant. Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. Of course, not all CIOs will embrace their new role.

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc. The bottom line is this; I view one of the primary obligations of venture capital and private equity firms to be to drive collaboration and innovation across their portfolio companies. of their portfolio companies.

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Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 295

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time. Most CIOs don't like being cast in the role of corporate psychic, but there's nothing they can do about it. So CIOs should avoid relying on just one source, no matter how well respected, and widen the range of events they attend.

CIO 15

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage? Such propositions come from innovation.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Stay secure and boost innovation. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. Herewith, three items that should have a permanent place on any CIO''s "breaking the paradox" checklist.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

CIOs who do great things in leading IT soon gain extra responsibilities. By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

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. I want to spend more of my time on continuous improvement and innovation. My view is that the CIO facing three dilemmas.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Just look at what most do: They appoint a CIO and give him or her a budget and a mandate to get on with it! So what can a CIO be held responsible for? This raises the fundamental question as to whether a CIO can really be held accountable for something that will only emerge when their colleagues step up to the plate.

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

There is a marked dissonance between CIOs and the C-suite — a fact that we uncovered in new research conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global. We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. This will allow us to most effectively allocate resources to the most strategic and innovation-focused initiatives.

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

The long-time CIO of Google, Ben Fried, indicated that the way in which that company has maintained its entrepreneurial spirit despite growing into a behemoth has been its ability to attract and retain people who are comfortable with and even drive change, even if it means cannibalizing what has worked in the past.

Company 100

Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, a survey just conducted by Accenture Interactive (see The CMO-CIO Disconnect ) points to a downright unhealthy relationship in many C-Suites which can do nothing but damage to firms. To begin to mend the CMO-CIO relationship, it''s important to understand the source of each side''s frustrations.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

CIO 8

CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. The first mode concerns security and accuracy, whereas the second mode concerns innovation, which is less structured. To apply and appropriate balance between centralization and decentralization, the information pyramid can be implemented.

Enterprise Architecture 50

Enterprise Architecture Process Decentralization Agility 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

That's "exactly opposite of what the vast majority of executives today would do," writes Jeffrey Phillips in the blog Innovate on Purpose. We are simply too busy to innovate, and what's worse, we seem to enjoy the busyness over the contemplation necessary for innovation. Users Want Mobile Apps, Not Mobile Websites (CIO Insight).

Innovation 22

Innovation Forrester CIO Self-aware 22

Steve Farber

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That would be a whole company of CIOs. I jotted down the words Carry, Scan, Eavesdrop, Ponder, Talk, and Try Something New , and then wrote, everyone a CIO? I turned to Cam, a vision of millions of CIOs swimming in my head, and asked what he thought of all this. Can you imagine that, Farberoni?”. What could happen?

CIO 60

CIO Hamel Airlines Fashion 60

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

All of this means that CIOs and centralized IT department staff no longer 'own' company data the way they did in the past; giving rise to new concerns about data integrity and security in a more distributed and anarchic company structure. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make. About the Author.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

I wrote recently about how successful Lego have been at harnessing the innovative thoughts of their customers to revive their fortunes in recent years. If you flip things around however you can begin to appreciate how social media can be used as a collaboration tool.

CIO 76

CIO Media Participative Consensus 76

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

Budgeting 13

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Most CIOs will tell you that they have no shortage of ideas to invest in — the hard part is whittling down to the right ones. Push that a bit further and what most CIOs say is that those ideas are in the form of project requests from business partners. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. IT management'

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Innovation. Jon Williams. Mitch Cohen. Norman Reiss. Paul Gillin. Black History Month. Collaboration. Communication. Conference. Customer Service. Driving Results. Leadercast. Leadership. Management. Motivation. Productivity. Project Management.

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Servant Leader Leadership Microfinance Discount 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2013

That's "exactly opposite of what the vast majority of executives today would do," writes Jeffrey Phillips in the blog Innovate on Purpose. We are simply too busy to innovate, and what's worse, we seem to enjoy the busyness over the contemplation necessary for innovation. Users Want Mobile Apps, Not Mobile Websites (CIO Insight).

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester CIO Self-aware 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.] I Think Not.

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Blog Content Media Brand 305

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2020

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Content 10

Content CIO Finance Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Many IT leaders are now at the forefront of business model enablement, organizational architecture, management practice, and innovation. But stepping into the role of strategic visionary and business driver requires CIOs to have a dramatic new conversation with their C-suite colleagues. Innovation webinar' Video Platform.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Back in 2007, only 40% of CIOs were involved in strategic planning; now they’re regarded as some of the most integral members of the C-Suite. These are worthy goals, of course, but it also means there’s less priority being placed on innovating and implementing the latest technologies into their products.

CIO 11

CIO Survey Strategic Planning Technology 11