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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. It is the CIO who is the one person in the organization to best understand how it operates, since every transaction passed through his or her systems. IT management'

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. Meanwhile, the organization’s mission aspirations grew bolder.