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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

Chair, Executive Search, N2growth. The primary reason stated was because of the continued fall-out from the 2013 massive data breach. Rather it indicates a true technologist in the form of a Chief Technology or Chief Information Officer. By Patricia Lenkov. And massive it was!

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Marketers, Let Your Egos Go

Harvard Business Review

You could practically hear the Chief Marketing Officer''s bodies hitting the floor in March of last year when the research firm Gartner reported that by 2017, a Chief Marketing Office will be spending more on IT than the Chief Information Officer.

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Is Anyone Really Responsible for Your Company's Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. To find out, I like to ask questions. So I knock on their doors and put the same question to them.