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Digital Media and the Future of Your Leadership – Video

Modern Servant Leader

Whether or not you realize leverage this opportunity, there are major influencers who will. As the Chief Information Officer for the organization, it’s my unfortunate responsibility to support his behaviors. They’re influencing our communities. Having difficulties viewing the video? Click here. But still, one-way.

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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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Is Your C-Suite Working As A Team?

Lead Change Blog

This is a great example of where the chief marketing officer needs to work closely with the chief information officer and possibly the Customer Services Manager so that the front, middle and back office systems all converge to deliver a seamless customer experience.

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Marketing’s New Digital Role Is Shortchanging IT

Harvard Business Review

When combined with powerful analytics, digital data allow marketers to segment their audience and create propensity models that can predict how and when to influence customers to buy. These skills are now reaching beyond data analysis to encompass information architecture, application development, and technology project management.

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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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11 Ways Big Companies Undermine Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Something very real is happening here: as it becomes cheaper and easier for startups to upend existing businesses with new offerings, big companies are realizing that they can’t continue to rely on their time-worn methods for cultivating and developing new products, and lumbering into new markets.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

In doing so, these more traditional companies are not only increasing their competitiveness but also making make themselves more attractive to a new generation of IT workers, their chief information officers say. They can also develop faster and more innovative ways to move their businesses forward.