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IT Has Finally Cracked the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives. With the cloud, business units can take responsibility for their own technology.

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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. Further, the pace of technological change and the demands to do more with the data grow exponentially and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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How Cybersecurity Teams Can Convince the C-Suite of Their Value

Harvard Business Review

If your security team is not yet part of the product development process, start building a partnership with those teams now so that you can approach senior management as part of a business-critical initiative. Offer to send a security representative to participate in the ideation and design process with product teams.

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Charlie Ackerman on Winning A World in Flux

HR Digest

Bosch firmly believes that research is not an end in itself – a never-ending race to develop new technologies – but rather something that makes a tangible contribution to improving the quality of people’s lives. The goal of this group is to bring awareness, resources, and support to those impacted by a disability.

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Why Marketing Needs Closer Ties to IT

Harvard Business Review

As marketing continues to shift and improve, we’ve come to rely on IT to provide expertise on current technology and, perhaps more importantly, to provide a road map that shows where technology will lead, where integration is critical, and how to make the best use of increasingly sophisticated tools.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

The retail giant's powerful buyers, or merchants, now have a sustainability goal in their performance targets and reviews. For example, the laptop PC buyer set a goal that, by Christmas, all of the laptops Walmart sells would come pre-installed with advanced energy-saving settings.