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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? 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. As an alternative, CIOs can indulge in some low-risk reverse mentoring.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

All of this means that CIOs and centralized IT department staff no longer 'own' company data the way they did in the past; giving rise to new concerns about data integrity and security in a more distributed and anarchic company structure.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

A presentation developed for a conference does not produce much value until it is actually presented, an event which may occur weeks or months after the document is completed. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Value realization is displaced in time from the act that initiated the value. IT management'

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