CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […]. Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming.

Magazine 52

Magazine Marketing Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

For example, EnableSoft’s automation tool can be deployed easily to operational staff in order to execute processes like entering customer information, creating accounts, processing multi-layered transactions, and even web scraping market data used to boost performance. Knowledge workers are businesses’ source of innovations.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

No company ever dazzled the world by lackadaisically going after a market. So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly?

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

CEO Insider

AUGUST 19, 2022

That’s because the strategic orchestration of technologies described in this book—conversational AI, hyperautomation, and intelligent automation—will do a lot more […]. I don’t want to scare you, but the status quo is a death sentence.

Magazine 119

Magazine Technology System Strategy 119

CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

There is nothing like escaping the winter of Melbourne, Australia, for the warmth and relaxation of Bali. The beaches, the rice terraces, the mountains, the beautifully kind people, the food, the vibe – there are so many reasons to make Bali your next holiday destination. But, what if you want more than a holiday? As […].

Magazine 111

Magazine Chief Information Officer Information Technology Human Resources 111

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

No company ever dazzled the world by lackadaisically going after a market. So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

As multinational corporations pursue opportunities in emerging markets, they're bound to stumble if they overlook the developed economies, and vice versa. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Globalization 13

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. When you are gone, will analytics be first in the hearts and minds of your CEO, your CMO and your board of directors?

Magazine 52

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 52

CEO Insider

JUNE 8, 2022

While moderating somewhat due to rising interest rates and other factors, the real-estate housing sector continues to generate record sales — particularly in certain pockets throughout the country, including cities in Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and California.

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Brand Magazine Chief Information Officer 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Other senior executives have left as well.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG). DIG is responsible for emerging technology, collaboration methods and technology (e.g.,

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

I believe, though, that it is at the enterprise level that mobile could truly become a game changer for Africa , enabling the building of massive fortunes, and perhaps even the much anticipated recycling of innovation from Africa to the West. It is consumers that have made Africa the fastest growing mobile market in the world.

CIO 15

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Better insight from customers can drive serious growth in your company, at least according to a recent study by IBM of over 1700 CEOs. But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. Put Business Needs First, Infrastructure Second. For example Dr.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

As new conditions and capabilities relentlessly change how business is done, marketing – that is, the internal function responsible for shaping demand for a company’s offerings—is being challenged to reexamine its own workings. We conclude that CEOs appoint CMOs when they recognize the centrality of these to strategy formulation.

Power 8

Power PR Marketing Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. They drive innovation and speed up time to market.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. Years ago, one group, often marketing, decided it needed analytics support and so that group hired some analytics professionals. Information & technology Leadership'

Company 8

Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

As one CEO said to us: "I just want to forget about IT and concentrate on my core business.". Of course, this response would be fine if the challenge were merely to deploy technology (on time and to budget) and ensure it continues to function properly for as long as required. IT management Information & technology'

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The company’s market value has more than halved to an 11-year low as it acknowledged overstating profits by hundreds of millions of dollars. More than any other retailer of scale, Tesco had committed to customer research, analytics, and loyalty as its marketing and operational edge. Tesco’s chairman has resigned in disgrace.

Retail 8

Retail Loyalty Supply Chain Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. Key findings from our research: Almost half of CEOs feel IT should be a commodity service purchased as needed.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But the larger emergent conference theme was that sports quants and analysts—as well as coaches and general managers—were becoming more creative, innovative and aggressive in identifying not only what player combinations and match-ups were more effective but what were the “special ingredients” and “secret sauces” that went into that success.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

While Facebook is still working diligently on mobile applications, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to hint that the acquisition places the company on the cutting edge for the next pervasive platform: virtual reality. Virtual reality is not a disruption to the computing market, instead it stands poised to disrupt content consumption.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Others gain new responsibilities in strategy, M&A integration, or innovation. Still others move on to business roles including CEO.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. As a start-up founder, my biggest competitors in the talent market are no longer the local family conglomerates. Rocket operates some of the largest e-commerce platforms in emerging markets.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As the system ended, the most urgent imperative for CEO Anand Mahindra was to shake the entire company out of its complacency. CEO Mike Kneeland changed the incentive system for branch managers. IBM’s Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO) process provides cover for experimental business units targeting embryonic markets.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. Innovation Tech industry Technology'

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. All the parts of the organization have to come together and build a common language to discuss their markets and their enterprise. CEOs sense the problem perhaps more than CIOs do.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

After all, what company on earth enjoyed greater access to more insights more quickly from more people searching for more information? Then–Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appalled : "Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst." (The Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? What a pity. More >>.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

Just before he stepped down as CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs tried to buy DropBox for Apple. Now what is true is that DropBox has been the innovative start-up in this area. In response to Google's entry came a nervous post from SugarSync welcoming the new entrant, claiming "this is further confirmation that we're in a hot market."

Price 12

Price Document Bottom-up Cooper 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

And in CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson’s new book, The Talent Equation , written with Lorin Hitt of the Wharton School and Prasanna Tambe of NYU’s Stern School, additional research shows that these more educated employees are delivering results, as measured by costs subtracted from total sales, and divided by number of employees.

Education 9

Education Trends Proposal Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. It is not about you.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

And then there''s politics: every politician wants to champion the "innovation" and growth aspects of the Internet, and there''s little to gain from highlighting what a dangerous place it really can be. A major national effort to educate the public and market a new "culture of security" for Internet behavior.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. A CEO can make hundreds of millions for running a once-thriving company into the ground because he (or she) can earn his mega-bonus faster than you can stop him from earning it. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

GDP 15

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Almost by definition, they don’t have first-hand experience with a disruptive shift in their market when they encounter it. Gledhill is Group Executive and Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank, a leading Asian bank with more than $300 billion of assets and a market capitalization of about $35.

Banking 8

Banking Technology Learning-by-Doing Download 8