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Leaders Need to Work the Diagonals

Next Level Blog

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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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. The workshops at the 25th conference on artificial intelligence can shed light on the future of natural language systems.

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The Right Way to Present Your Business Case

Harvard Business Review

a company specializing in presentations and corporate messaging workshops. That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage.

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