Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As Younger generations will not operate like the current generation of leaders ….If

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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. Information & technology Marketing'

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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. Creating greater value requires a multi-pronged approach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? This is a management failure, not a technological problem. But security?

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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. Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Educate employees and upper management. Educating upper management is a different task for information technology executives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. One of the newest additions to the C-Suite is the Chief Data Officer. 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.

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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. In that time, weve tracked dramatic changes in attitudes.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2013

Forty-five percent of marketing executives say they would prefer to enable marketing employees to operate data and content without IT intervention. For their part, IT executives believe marketers make promises they can''t keep and do not provide them with adequate information on business requirements. Develop trust by trusting.

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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.” Technical and technology skills. Change-management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. 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

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I would say overall, we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Here are six ways to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management. Rather than try to educate the CEO about technology, focus on the portfolio of risks associated with the legacy system.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Digital transformation—or the way of thinking about this change—refers to the use of technology to improve the reach and performances of enterprises. million citizens but is larger in landmass than Switzerland; as a result, many towns do not have a nearby government office. They are signs of profound change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. This group saw that new mobile apps for patients (which measure and manage health outcomes) could yield clinical and financial benefits. Is that “big data”?

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