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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time. Most CIOs don't like being cast in the role of corporate psychic, but there's nothing they can do about it. So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. Better still, they should do this while overseas.

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A WUP Upside the Head 1.8

Steve Farber

You’re going to pay him a thousand bucks to take your advice?” That would be a whole company of CIOs. I jotted down the words Carry, Scan, Eavesdrop, Ponder, Talk, and Try Something New , and then wrote, everyone a CIO? I turned to Cam, a vision of millions of CIOs swimming in my head, and asked what he thought of all this.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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To Blog or Not to Blog?

N2Growth Blog

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Your advice is helpful. Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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IT Can’t Be Slower than the Rest of the Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM IBM

Harvard Business Review

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. I interviewed the leaders of many fabled Scrum companies, agile certification firms, and some Big 4 consultants, but the advice we got was all product-focused.

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The 4 Things It Takes to Succeed in the Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Dr. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. Customer expectations.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” The advice boils down to building better strategic foresight and creating more agile management and operations. My father worked at IBM for 35 years. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.