Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the leaders I interviewed for the new edition was Avon’s Chief Information Officer, Donagh Herlihy.    A lot of it is just when you bump into people and you know them, even though there are two levels of separation from you… Having a kind of richer data set in terms of informal feedback is very, very helpful.

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Goleman Executive Coaching Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 163

CEO Insider

JUNE 30, 2023

The acquisition minded executive is the norm in the business world. Most executives I’ve talked to are either actively seeking acquisitions or, to use their common turn of phrase, they’re “opportunistic.” In other words, if the right deal falls into their laps, they might be stirred into action.

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Company Magazine Execution Books 104

CEO Insider

MAY 26, 2023

This month I had my biannual chance to be a fly on the wall while Silicon Valley Investor Partners had a very candid, frank conversation with a group of Seed/A startups that had already raised sizable rounds during the “party” of 2021 funding.

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Magazine Chief Information Officer Company Information Technology 104

CEO Insider

APRIL 29, 2023

CEOWORLD Magazine has announced the appointment of new members to its board of directors and executive council.

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Magazine Hotels CEO Execution 133

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

This is a great example of where the chief marketing officer needs to work closely with the chief information officer and possibly the Customer Services Manager so that the front, middle and back office systems all converge to deliver a seamless customer experience.

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Chief Information Officer Team Human Capital Survey 186

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

We led the fight against terrorism, redesigned the higher education system in the country, formulated a five-year strategic plan for “Digital Tunisia,” created a “country chief information officer” role that reports directly to the Prime Minister. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

CEO Insider

JUNE 18, 2023

In recent years, cherished US institutions have revealed toxic workplace cultures characterized by racism, bullying, misogyny, homophobia or a combination of all four, that is hard to fathom. It’s easy enough to write these instances off as extreme anomalies in the corporate world.

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Career Strategy Magazine Productivity 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When we talk about “learning to love your job” or “managing yourself,” it’s often in the context of junior or midlevel roles. Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM).

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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

A sales manager of a major services corporation, for example, may want to know which employees have the strongest relationships with executives at a client prior to visiting them and who best understands the subject of the meeting. For sales and business development, this is an invaluable tool.

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Ethics Company Committee Chief Information Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Identify and stratify patients by disease severity to manage population health. Managing Population Health for Value With Technology and Data.

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Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

There is one area where more training would pay off: for CEOs and other senior managers — the people who are least likely to take training or take it seriously. Forty percent of respondents to a BAE Systems survey of senior managers in various sectors said they lack understanding of their own company’s cybersecurity protocols.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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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. Chief Operating and Finance Officers side-step this issue given the broader power-base of their positions.). Have this negotiation as part of the new Chief Data Officer on-boarding.

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Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. What form that partnership might (or could) take isn’t clear.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Executives are wrestling with managing a proliferation of devices, protecting data, securing networks, and training employees to take security seriously. Educate employees and upper management. Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. Chief "Infrastructure" Officers focus on cost reduction, and account for 65% to 70% of the overall IT budget. Most of this CIO persona's projects prioritize keeping the lights on and managing legacy environments.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. CIOs who belong to the executive management team can play the strategic role that''s key to success. As a member of executive management, a CIO can serve as both a utility and a strategic adviser to the business. Reporting structure.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. Email each leader , asking for an informal conversation in which they can help someone in their field develop.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For instance, the general counsel thinks about the issue in terms of compliance with information security regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

So who''s responsible for information security in your company? But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. Unfortunately this rarely happens.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

While the customer intelligence group was learning about customers'' emotions, Ron van Kemenade , the new chief information officer, was learning about ING''s IT organization. While Scrum has been employed primarily in software development, ING shows that it has broader management applications.

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Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

During one of my very first consulting assignments, a colleague and I interviewed direct reports of the Chief Information Officer of a chemical company about improving project execution. Remember that it’s not about you; it’s to help the client become a more effective manager.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today. IT management' The Building Blocks of Successful IT.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

As chief information officer of my family, I had purchased two used 333 MHz iMac G3s with 160MB of RAM in Bondi blue for my children to play games on. Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO.

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

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. Innovation is always infectious.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Across industries, staff such as retail category managers, sales representatives, financial advisers, and wealth managers are awash with reports and insights that comfort their companies’ top executives and by making them feel that they are leading a “customer-centric” organization. What made the difference?

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Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

For the past four years, Accenture has conducted an annual survey of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) to understand the state of their collaboration. Collaboration IT management Marketing' In that time, weve tracked dramatic changes in attitudes.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

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). It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

A change began to occur in the 1970s as functional managers slowly joined BU leaders and COOs on the top team. CFOs were the first functional chiefs to join, followed in the 1980s by Chief Strategy Officers (CSOs). The 1990s saw the appearance of Chief Information Officers, Chief Marketing Officers and others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

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.” Finally, C-level executives must be adept in receiving and synthesizing information.

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Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Conflict IT management Online marketing' Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur. If a little competitive rivalry gets them both to bring their best games to work, so be it.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

You could practically hear the Chief Marketing Officer''s bodies hitting the floor in March of last year when the research firm Gartner reported that by 2017, a Chief Marketing Office will be spending more on IT than the Chief Information Officer.

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Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies?

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