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. Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? One area of focus: how technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality will be able help consumers visualize the end result of their home improvement projects.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

For example, the CEO of a communications company we interviewed initially hired a capable, senior individual to head strategy, but he didn’t contribute many insights beyond those that the CEO was already getting from the chief information officer.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva. IT organizations are changing in other ways, particularly at leading firms: they’re flattening and forming self-governing teams that can move from one project to another.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

.” Once a company decides to try out an insight tool, it should keep its first data project small and focused on frontline decisions, that way participating managers can be engaged and help to ensure its success. We find that small, test-and-learn data projects on 90-day cycles help to steer clear of committee consensus.

Retail 8

Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

who specializes in Lean, notes that only about 30% of Lean quality-improvement projects see results sustained beyond three years. Close those gaps, keep them as healthy as possible,” says John Kravitz, its chief information officer. Sustaining Results Achieved Through the Lean Methodology. Same with diabetes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 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

You’ve already put a great deal of work into preparing a solid business case for your project or idea. If you have someone who is interested in growth in Asia, show how your project helps the company grow in the region.” If there are “issues that other projects have had, you should have an answer for those,” says Sheen.

IPO 9

IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

While the customer intelligence group was learning about customers'' emotions, Ron van Kemenade , the new chief information officer, was learning about ING''s IT organization. We''ve moved from a project orientation to continuous delivery, applying Lean Six Sigma approaches.".

Marketing 8

Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In doing so, these more traditional companies are not only increasing their competitiveness but also making make themselves more attractive to a new generation of IT workers, their chief information officers say. Loura began to use visualization tools to show managers why other projects rose further up the queue.

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

CMOs do not believe they are getting fast enough turnaround on projects and adequate quality from the IT departments. Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

There is both a stronger feeling that big data and AI projects deliver value and a greater concern that established firms will be disrupted by startups. Virtually all of the respondents (97%) say they are investing in these types of projects. In the 2018 survey, the primary attention has moved to artificial intelligence.

Company 13

Company Survey Chief Information Officer Objective 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF had dozens of departments filled with potentially high-impact data-related projects. Although we were tempted to tackle many projects across the entire company, we realized that to create visibility within a 146,000-employee firm, we had to focus on the most promising departments and projects first.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

As part of a joint research project with Microsoft, Estonia moved the official digital record of land ownership to the cloud. A collaborative research project has launched in New Zealand to explore some of these larger questions of how governments can harness digital technologies to develop smarter, more inclusive societies.

Content 8

Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. With support at all levels, the project was funded, new support staff were hired, and the rollout ensued. As the second human sequenced in the personal genome project, I know the disease risks identified in my DNA.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8