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. And 83 percent of CIOs say that they need to align and interact with Marketing. (It It was 77 percent in 2012.).

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

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. Though he was writing about Chief Marketing Officers, his advice is equally valuable here.

Incentives 8

Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur. Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur. Surely there is truth to both sides'' complaints.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. 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? But security?

Company 8

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The person’s capabilities should fit the challenges facing the organization at the time. In some cases, it pays to tailor the job to the candidate’s unique capabilities.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Skunkworks often need to be protected from the business units, so that they have the freedom and resources that their ideas need to get out into the market.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

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. Balance your inner cabinet.

Execution 8

Execution Team Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

But their impact on sales has been underwhelming, primarily because they ignore the needs of one key constituent: the frontline employee working to make the best possible marketing decisions day by day. Measuring Marketing Insights. Some just give up entirely and look for a different role. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

Retail 8

Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

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.”

Skills 9

Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 9

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. Success stories of Big-Data-enabled innovation remain relatively few at this stage.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

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.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10