Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

Technology 16

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 16

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.  However, The Conference Board does much more than just report on leading economic indicators.

Conference 133

Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Almost any enterprise you can think of, no matter the industry or sector, is trying (or being pressured by competitors) to use new technology to harness the vast new oceans of data being generated by smartphones, sensors, digital cameras, GPS devices, and myriad other sources of information originating from customers and markets.

Technology 10

Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it.

CEO 10

CEO CIO Technology CFO 10

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

 Equally diverse are the faculty members who weigh in on these issues, which has included CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, leaders of small non-profits, entrepreneurial junkies, the occasional student, and everything in between.

Company 140

Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

  One unique feature of their knowledge resource center that I particularly like is that in addition to publishing great primary research, they also compile secondary market data and research and organize it into convenient and easy to read tables and graphs that make following government data and macroeconomic trends a breeze. 

Resources 100

Resources Consultative White Paper Human Resources 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Have you ever pondered what you''d ask the CEO if you were made chairman of the board for 10 minutes and could pose one question? Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. While you''re firing him, inform the CEO that data security is the number one critical need for U.S.

CEO 10

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Still skeptical?

Media 66

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 66

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? If they'd been able to pay the same amount for different packaging on the open market, what would the outcome have been? Free access to salespeople, manufacturing capacity and marketing dollars all can inhibit the generation of sustainable business models.

Innovation 16

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 15

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

The CEO and CFO responded with, "A failure to hit ROI and NPV targets." The head of R&D remembered it as a failure to properly market the innovation. The Chief Marketing Officer recalled that sales and distribution did not achieve planned market presence. If an innovation initiative failed, ask why.

NPV 18

NPV ROI CFO Consensus 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CEO, grinning, agreed with her. Don Farrall/Getty Images.

CFO 8

CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

Guidelines 62

Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

CIO 10

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Here, I think, are five important reasons that companies fail at business model innovation: CEOs don't really want a new business model. The most obvious reason companies fail at business model innovation is because CEOs and their senior leadership teams don't want to explore new business models. Product is king. Nothing else matters.

Business Model 16

Business Model Innovation Company ROI 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 14

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. CEO Ginni Rometty is leading the company into new areas, betting big on its Watson software and cloud computing. How technology is changing the way we work.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This means there are too many ways that an attacker can take advantage of any part of the technology infrastructure in most companies to breach them or create harm. The market has validated this value proposition: AWS reported this year that their revenue grew 42% to $4.1B Instead, practical security is about tradeoffs and ROI.

ROI 11

ROI Long-term Banking System 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Marketing 101 principles still apply.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

An executive friend in an organization and industry riven by digital disruption and declining margins confided over lunch how dramatically her new CEO had impressed everyone at a recent executive offsite. ” Responsive CEOs are wonderful. . ” Responsive CEOs are wonderful. How technology is changing the way we work.

Compliance 8

Compliance B2B Report ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

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. Today, CIOs and CEOs of large companies are faced with an overwhelming demand for digital transformation and a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice.

Agility 8

Agility Content CIO Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

They simply cannot answer it because it's way too early to know what the ROI will be. They will try hard to extrapolate numbers from market trends and past experience, rather than thinking about customers, good ideas, and new paradigms. This question scares innovation team and forces them to tell lies. Are you meeting your milestones?"

Innovation 18

Innovation Committee Market Segmentation ROI 18

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

Media 407

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

Media 57

Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 57

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

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 14

Education Trends Proposal Cost 14

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP followed Jim, or at least attempted to…While Bill has a successful track record in business going all the way back to his years as an entrepreneurial teenager, his presentation was horrid (sorry Bill). Up next was Calos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Bureaucracy is the technology of control. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices. Yes, work still needs to be done to better align CEO compensation with long-term value creation, but that work is already well underway. He was right.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Bureaucracy is the technology of control. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices. Yes, work still needs to be done to better align CEO compensation with long-term value creation, but that work is already well underway. He was right.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Then–Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appalled : "Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst." (The Conversely, figuring out how to maximize ROI on terabytes and gigabytes can't help but force leadership to reevaluate how orders of magnitude more data should make their business more valuable. What a pity. More >>.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

It''s a sight to behold, with 11,000 agency folk, clients and technology companies from every corner of the earth coming together in one place. But, while the industry is partying, all on the client''s dime, the world around us is radically changing as digital technology evolves the way we all communicate. What''s the future of Cannes?

Advertising 11

Advertising Creativity Industry Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. 85% of your closest contacts are fellow marketers), it’s time to think consciously about how to diversify. But it occurred to him that his entire professional network consisted of people from that company.

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Marketers market themselves, directors research deals, the executive talent team doesn’t recruit — that is very much “organism think.” ” They also measure the value of this activity, and expect to see a real ROI. Not just the strategy team, not just the CEO, but everyone. Open the doors.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bottom-up Organization ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough. How do you define design?

Organization 8

Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Or have you become so immune to risk that you avoid the steps that you clearly need to make because it will negatively affect your ROI?

Positioning 78

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Technology / Offering (Make different). Corporate Culture. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. What are you tolerating?

Positioning 60

Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 60