Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. Generate Room for Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Variations of this Big Data story line are being played out in executive offices around the world, with CMOs and CIOs in the thick of it. CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. The relationship, however, has often been a fractious one.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation requires a new approach to strategy. A key tenet of digital transformation is the understanding that digital strategy no longer plays a supporting role for business strategy. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Digital transformation requires new strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Kim Stevenson , Intel''s CIO, summarizes the challenge well: "[IT functions have] gone through ERP, they''ve gone through BYO and they''ve gone through cloud, and they think they''ve done it all. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. There is no time for complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

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 issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. My father worked at IBM for 35 years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

How do we reduce the performance drag of top-heavy management structures, replace "manager-management" with a more agile self- or peer-management, and create a vibrant social system in the process? It's a big-ticket shift that is already yielding big impact — from employee engagement to increased agility to real performance gains.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. As with American Airlines, each competitive advantage with IT is temporary. Competitors copy or suppliers commoditize to erase these advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leadership risk: Psychology has found that "for most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150", and IT leaders are no exception. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. IT often fails to step up to its leadership role, identifying instead with "aligned with the business."

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