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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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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

We often think we’re starting far ahead of where we objectively are and that we’ve arrived when we’re still hundreds of miles from our goal. There are two types of experiences that will accelerate your development — functional experiences and management experiences. Ask for insights.

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. But it should be the CIO''s job. Back to the Future.

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The Right Way to Present Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. Make sure you also show how that the need aligns with corporate goals and strategies,” Sheen says.

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How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab

Harvard Business Review

This gave ZF access to top-notch expertise in data analytics and the management of information systems. 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. The hardest part was figuring out how the lab would work.

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