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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. Are these the type of people we want influencing our communities?

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Is Your C-Suite Working As A Team?

Lead Change Blog

And increasingly in business we are seeing the need for shared leadership because if an executive team does not operate as an integrated decision making unit, then they risk moving too slowly and are not able to exploit new technologies and opportunities that appear in the shifting marketplace.

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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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How CMOs Can Work with CIOs to Gain Customer Insight

Harvard Business Review

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). And new technology can integrate these disparate sources of customer-related information.

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Lessons in IT Innovation From Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Facebook Inc., Facebook Inc.,

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The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

One consultant described the search for a chief information officer in these terms: “Whereas technical expertise was previously paramount, these competencies [being sought today] are more about leadership skills than technical ones.” Technical and technology skills. Team- and relationship-building.

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A System for Speaking IT Truths to CEOs

Harvard Business Review

Believe me, this skill comes in handy in the chief information officer's line of work: CIOs often have to tell CEOs that the large portfolios of legacy applications driving corporate operations are bound to fail sooner or later and need to be replaced. Understand the CEO's perceptions. Enlist a business ally. Stick to the facts.

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