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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. The Rise of the CIO.

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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

Harvard Business Review

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. IT management'

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The IT Conversation We Should Be Having

Harvard Business Review

Over the last two years, we have been engaged in primary research with The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly known as the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global in an attempt to paint a picture of how the role of the CIO and the IT department is changing. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

In January 2013 they created “ IBM iFundIT ,” a program in which volunteers decide where to spend seed money using an intranet site for proposing ideas, commenting, volunteering, and funding. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.