Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The advice from successful executive leaders is pick up looking left, right and diagonally as you lead and let go of primarily looking up and down as you lead. One of the leaders I interviewed for the new edition was Avon’s Chief Information Officer, Donagh Herlihy.  When was the last time someone asked you.

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Goleman Executive Coaching Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 163

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

There is one area where more training would pay off: for CEOs and other senior managers — the people who are least likely to take training or take it seriously. Forty percent of respondents to a BAE Systems survey of senior managers in various sectors said they lack understanding of their own company’s cybersecurity protocols.

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Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

If you’ve decided to move ahead, then the next step is to effectively build that role into the rest of the top management team. Though he was writing about Chief Marketing Officers, his advice is equally valuable here. The top management team should approach the role clarification and incentive alignment as a negotiation.

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Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. The reality has been the opposite.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time.

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