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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts. has grown stealthier and more sinister.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

IT-based management-control systems, starting with finance and human resources and including distributed-innovation systems, are critical to ensure the policies and governance guidelines are effectively implemented in geographically dispersed locations. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs). The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Instead of thinking about driving value from the perspective of IT, or HR, finance, sales, or operations, leadership teams will think about a problem they want to solve or a process they want to change, and then align the full breadth of services (IT, HR, operations) needed to accomplish it. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Charlie Hill , Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Design, told us, “To deliver fundamentally different and better user experiences, designers want to take a step back and observe users actually doing their jobs. With this approach, cross-functional teams quickly develop prototypes to bounce off of customers.