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

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. Instead, organizations need cross-silo incentives and initiatives to support behaviors that leverage the skills of the new executive. 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

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

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. The persona of the next-generation CIO is evolving from Chief Infrastructure Officer through Chief Integration Officer and Chief Intelligence Officer to Chief Innovation Officer. Reporting structure.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I was curious about the doctors' and nurses' skill at speaking about difficult matters, and in response to my questions the staff introduced me to the small but growing literature on palliative care. I was so taken with it that I've adapted it for my exec ed classes to help CIOs learn how to speak difficult truths more easily and effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Change the skill mixes. Upgrading their skills will help both departments make better decisions about technology and understand its impact on business outcomes. Conflict IT management Online marketing' Make sure the marketing department becomes more tech savvy and the IT department better understands marketing.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

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

APRIL 25, 2013

Don Draper, the lead character on the show Mad Men , has an acutely profound skill in being able to turn a brand insight into an emotion that can bring you to tears. What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ? Let''s take a step back.

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Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

He picked people who he knew had the skills to do the job and particularly looked for experienced leaders who had an outside perspective without connections to the old regime. Like any good leader should, he gathered the best people for the job from far and wide, bringing back countrymen from the U.S., Destroy silos.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. focus and vision.

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