N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Digital leadership is not limited to technology-driven companies; businesses across industries recognize the need for influential digital leaders to stay competitive in the market. One of the critical responsibilities of a CIO is to align the digital strategy with the overall goals and objectives of the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository. Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur. Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur. Surely there is truth to both sides'' complaints.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

[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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. 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).

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