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Unlocking Digital Leadership: CIO Executive Search

N2Growth Blog

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. Additionally, digital leaders must be versatile, persuasive communicators.

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Leaders Need to Work the Diagonals

Next Level Blog

One of the leaders I interviewed for the new edition was Avon’s Chief Information Officer, Donagh Herlihy.    A lot of it is just when you bump into people and you know them, even though there are two levels of separation from you… Having a kind of richer data set in terms of informal feedback is very, very helpful.

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How Senior Executives Stay Passionate About Their Work

Harvard Business Review

When we talk about “learning to love your job” or “managing yourself,” it’s often in the context of junior or midlevel roles. 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).

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

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Just Adding a Chief Data Officer Isn’t Enough

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve decided to move ahead, then the next step is to effectively build that role into the rest of the top management team. Alignment with specific business goals is important to all senior executives, of course, but it’s especially true for those who may be in service roles to the business units of the organization.

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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology

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Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT

Harvard Business Review

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. What form that partnership might (or could) take isn’t clear.