Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

For instance, the person who was once the best at analytics may no longer hold that position if a Chief Data Officer is brought in. When incentives are focused on rewarding silo behavior and performance — as so many incentives are — it is a struggle to take advantage of a boundary-spanning executive position.

Incentives 8

Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Luke Skywalker, a salesperson for XYZ Technologies, is attending a trade show and happens to be in the elevator with Norman Bates, chief information officer at Wonderful Telecommunications. Fallback position : Every customer conversation is actually a verbal negotiation. The problems are identified in brackets.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Outsourcing Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today. CTOs must embrace the role of Chief Transformation Officer.

CTO 8

CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. Unfortunately, there''s a trend afoot to have CIOs report to the CFO , which relegates the position to a purely cost-centric, tactical role. Their organizations face disruption from both traditional and non-traditional competitors, and constant change.

CIO 8

CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

Some provoked positive feelings, but some also prompted frustration, anger, and stress. Verhaaf said they realized that "to create more positive reactions and build trust with our customers, we really need the help of IT in changing our products and processes.".

Marketing 8

Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. Members should be encouraged to go to nontraditional conferences, listen to webcasts, and develop position papers. Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time.

CIO 14

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Front-line workers are in a better position to recognize problems than executive leadership, and HROs welcome their input on how to improve. Close those gaps, keep them as healthy as possible,” says John Kravitz, its chief information officer. A reluctance to simplify. Sensitivity to operations. Same with diabetes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 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.

Execution 8

Execution Team Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

During one of my very first consulting assignments, a colleague and I interviewed direct reports of the Chief Information Officer of a chemical company about improving project execution. We consistently heard that the CIO was autocratic and intimidating, and that his people were afraid to talk openly about mistakes.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

How can you start each day being positive and ready to lead under these circumstances? We were faced with the threat of being taken hostage; hostile mobs quite often waited for us outside our ministries; at times, we couldn’t go home; our own staff went on strike, and on and on.

Politics 10

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

. “We’re working on the problems that haven’t arrived yet,” says executive director Kyle Nel, who reports to the company’s chief information officer.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Information governance is not IT''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. The explosive growth of information is accelerating. But it should be the CIO''s job.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Does a bar graph, table, or pie chart more effectively present your position? That analysis not only showed those with the most compelling brands and integrated marketing support had impressive revenues, but also the most positive performances on Wall Street, a helpful fact given the company’s IPO aspirations.

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Alignment with strategic positioning will be key to success. It is all well and good — and true — to say that the role and mandate of the CIO are expanding.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. For medically minded readers, it was estrogen-positive, progesterone-positive, and HER2-negative.) Is that “big data”? Precision medicine.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8