Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out. In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

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 Younger generations will not operate like the current generation of leaders ….If

Chief Information Officer 279

Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 279

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.

Incentives 8

Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 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 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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

and uncovers new customer insights; it then turns to operations to translate the insights into action.and hits a wall. The people in operations are too focused on fulfilling internal requests and service agreements to worry about customers, the ones that pay real money. Now instead at ING they say, "Here''s your team.

Marketing 8

Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 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. Marketing teams should invest time in establishing a digital vision and collaborate with IT to bring it to life.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

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. Our team knew from the start we would be working in an extremely high turbulence environment.

Politics 10

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

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. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

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.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

What resources do you have to get something fixed?" —Chief Operating Officer. What they said didn't really apply to us." —Chief Financial Officer. The complex sales process is typically a team-related sales effort that involves pre-sales product and consulting experts. C-Level Executive Access.

Chief Financial Officer 17

Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 17

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.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The first approach requires the creation of an internal consultancy to the business units, asking them to identify needs or opportunities that your team should work on, and agreeing that at a certain point, you’ll hand over projects to them once they’re ready to move past the testing phase.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 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.” Team- and relationship-building. Communication and presentation.

Skills 9

Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 9

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. The team had to be motivated. This power turned out to be a game changer.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10