N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Importance of CIO Leadership in the Modern Business Landscape In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, digital leadership has emerged as a critical factor for success. One of the critical responsibilities of a CIO is to align the digital strategy with the overall goals and objectives of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

For the past four years, Accenture has conducted an annual survey of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) to understand the state of their collaboration. And 83 percent of CIOs say that they need to align and interact with Marketing. This is a 16-point jump over 2012.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, a survey just conducted by Accenture Interactive (see The CMO-CIO Disconnect ) points to a downright unhealthy relationship in many C-Suites which can do nothing but damage to firms. To begin to mend the CMO-CIO relationship, it''s important to understand the source of each side''s frustrations.

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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. As chief information officer of my family, I had purchased two used 333 MHz iMac G3s with 160MB of RAM in Bondi blue for my children to play games on.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. CIOs and CMOs must meet in the middle.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. There is one area where more training would pay off: for CEOs and other senior managers — the people who are least likely to take training or take it seriously.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I came to understand the reason for a phenomenon I had been aware of for years: Medical-center CIOs who are MDs tend to be much better at stating unpleasant truths about IT systems than nonmedical CIOs. CIOs need to engage with the CEO's informal influencers to gain insights into the visibility of this topic in the C-suite.

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