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The Building Blocks of Successful Corporate IT

Harvard Business Review

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. Market leaders and fast followers seek transformational change; cautious adopters and laggards dip their toe into incremental change. If they work for a product company, it may be looking to services revenue for growth. Organizational DNA.

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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 The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”