Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Today, however, the vast proliferation of software and hardware components in our business environment have made patch management a complex, time- and resource- consuming necessity, critical to the cybersecurity of a business’s network. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? and security penetration. An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 99

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

But it should be the CIO''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. The time is ripe for CIOs to take a page from the CFOs'' playbook to ensure both accountability and responsibility for information creation.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Enterprise IT as we have known it is rapidly becoming obsolete, and the traditional role of the CIO is increasingly irrelevant. Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. Of course, not all CIOs will embrace their new role.

CIO 8

CIO Innovation Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO. Most companies have a distinct culture.

CFO 8

CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources. So, for instance, if you want a top finance job it's not enough to be the best CFO in the U.S.; you have to be the best CFO in the world. You have to be constantly learning.

Execution 15

Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Create an IT environment based on the "shopper architecture." Research has linked high associate attrition with a poor technology environment. Doing this right will allow the CFO to keep the store as an asset on the balance sheet, not a liability — a move shareholders would surely reward. Big difference.

Retail 15

Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

I call this phenomenon “executive brownout” and the details of El-Erian’s departure (not to mention more recent reporting on the conduct of his co-CIO Bill Gross, who has also since resigned) only confirmed my opinion that he was very likely suffering from it. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8