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

Harvard Business Review

Information governance is not IT''s job. 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.

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Using Data to Strengthen Your Connections to Customers

Harvard Business Review

Using that lens, one major European grocer axed half of its sales reports because they didn’t provide actionable information. Managers loved receiving a weekly list of the 10 best-selling products — but it turned out that no one was making decisions based on it.

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