Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Make no mistake: this problem is only getting worse.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 77

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Divya Silbermann – Human resources leader at technology startups, including Facebook and Eventbrite. Entrepreneurs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

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. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Technology is intimidating, particularly to non-Millennials.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

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.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

The following personal brand statement examples come from a variety of people across numerous industries and professions. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance."

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Imagine combining the brilliant technological advances of today with timeless people skills, and consider the potential of future generations. After working for twenty years in the sales and marketing industries, she founded her consulting business, Protocol Consultants International , in 1992. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Consultative Skills CFO Competitive Advantage 56

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. Redefining the CFO role. After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. It’s a core part of the CFO’s work: Last year Oka personally met with 145 investors and his IR team collectively met with more than 500.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. We are in the midst of a digital business transformation in all industries. IT management Information & technology Strategy' Organizational DNA.

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CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Some recent CEO appointments in these industries include Yahoo!’s

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. Go to LinkedIn and do a search for people currently employed by your enterprise," says social compliance strategist and financial industry veteran Mike Langford. without any compliance process or technology in place.". The risks and penalties are real.

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Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The research, involving over 5,000 B2B purchase participants across 12 industries, uncovered three mistakes that undermine firms’ content marketing. Consider Xerox Technology Business, a division that provides enterprise printing capabilities to various industries, including schools. What does a better approach look like?

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B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

“What’s good for General Motors is good for America” has been derided endlessly as a joke of a slogan from the military-industrial complex – but this time I sincerely mean it. She is a clearly a team player with the support of her peers, such as CFO Dan Ammann, promoted to president working with Barra.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets.

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

She changed industries from private equity investing to technology; she changed geographies by moving from New York to San Francisco; and she changed functions from M&A and investing to HR. “I was surprised by how much I personally enjoyed running the HR function versus taking on a CFO role,” said Reses.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. It can: Save Taxes.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And as a former CFO I also understand the preoccupation with numbers, but during my time as a CEO it has become clearer to me than ever, that numbers don't tell the whole story. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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CFO Software Engineering CEO 12

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. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. IT isn''t somebody else''s job, it''s ultimately theirs.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Nance Dicciani, to head our European operations in 1999 (first in the senior ranks in our industry to hold such a senior position); a Venezuelan (Rueben Salazar) and Korean (YiHyon Paik) to head our operations in Japan; an African-American (Charles Hill) as CFO of our subsidiary in Japan; and the list goes on and on.

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Team Diversity CFO TSR 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Fortune It was perhaps this summer''s most chilling business story: the suicide of Zurich Insurance Group CFO Pierre Wauthier, who left a note condemning the company''s chair, Josef Ackermann. Internet Tech industry' Unanswered Questions Tragedy in Switzerland: What Drove Two Top Executives to Suicide?

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Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

The technology world has some harrowing examples that no innovation-based industry should ever forget. That these were unwise deals may seem obvious today, but the trick is to see that at the time of purchase and not succumb to blind enthusiasm for new waves of technology. If it's the latter, you might want to reconsider.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like. It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market. We are shifting our center of gravity.”

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wilson was an industry outsider (he had previously worked as a management consultant and the head of corporate planning at an airline), whom Stemberg described as a “provocateur” and an “in-your-face kind of guy.” So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Perhaps your manager had your job title a few years or months back, or your new CFO recently transitioned into the role from heading the accounting department. About the Author: Rania Stewart is a Senior Product Manager with Peoplefluent , an industry-leading provider of talent management software.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In research spanning 20 years, we closely examined 36 companies in eight industries to find out why companies are struggling. Insurance, a very analytics-intensive industry, saw nearly half of CAOs changing roles over an 18-month period.). This is about more than technology. But poor ROI is only part of the story.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". We''re not a technology firm." "We Finally, the CSO must be given authority over people, processes, and technologies. A question that could tell you a lot about the company''s potential under this leader.

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CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry. The retail industry is getting “reinvented,” as we describe in our new book Matchmakers. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In fact, only eight percent of companies’ CEOs believe that their business model will remain economically viable if their industry continues to digitize at its current course and speed. People are welcoming technology investments, and people want to do great work that has a purpose. And this is the digital work crisis.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Every CEO, CMO, CFO, and business unit leader should ask themselves these questions: If I decided to launch a hedge fund based solely on the data our business generates, what kind of financial opportunities immediately suggest themselves? Does our data suggest exciting investment options in adjacent or complementary industries?

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15