N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and innovation, the role of digital leaders has become paramount. The Role of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) in Driving Digital Transformation The role of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) in driving digital transformation is crucial in today’s fast-paced business landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). “They cared about how I was developing and growing in my career but also as a manager, leader, and communicator.”

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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

With data analytics as the driver and automation as the goal, marketing departments are scrambling to pull in skills that would have lived purely in IT and in the quant labs of financial service firms. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation. What form that partnership might (or could) take isn’t clear.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

But why is it that two leaders focused on the same ultimate goal cannot make better progress in working together? The CMO must design and drive a customer experience that is consistently first-rate, at every touch point within the company — a goal that lays more emphasis on the role of IT and the need to reach a deeper understanding.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As the goal of the data lab is to create value by analyzing data, we initially focused on the departments that generate the most data. To sustain motivation and enthusiasm, we priotitized projects that could be subdivided into smaller but more easily achieved goals. But how would we define “most promising”?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. They developed the policies and technologies needed to query large databases across institutions, thereby attracting national and international audiences. Is that “big data”?

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