Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The Velocity Manifesto details key actions you must take to gain an advantage in the digital age.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. If they work for a product company, it may be looking to services revenue for growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Don Draper, the lead character on the show Mad Men , has an acutely profound skill in being able to turn a brand insight into an emotion that can bring you to tears. It''s hard to argue that any computer or technology can create that kind of emotional connection or weave that kind of story. Let''s take a step back.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). And new technology can integrate these disparate sources of customer-related information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Nearly half (49 percent) of CIOs say marketing pulls in technologies without consideration for IT standards. On the IT side, the teams are being asked to manipulate vast reams of data to analyze every product, customer, or transaction and to adopt new technologies for mobile, social media, etc. Change the skill mixes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increase workforce productivity by optimizing the skill set of your workforce while shifting routine work away. Managing Population Health for Value With Technology and Data. Close those gaps, keep them as healthy as possible,” says John Kravitz, its chief information officer. Same with diabetes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

He said that without changes in incentives, as well as a change in the structure of the C-suite, broad-based roles like Chief Information Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers are hampered in their effectiveness. Technology' Big Data’s Biggest Challenge?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. He picked people who he knew had the skills to do the job and particularly looked for experienced leaders who had an outside perspective without connections to the old regime. How could I refuse? Destroy silos.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I was curious about the doctors' and nurses' skill at speaking about difficult matters, and in response to my questions the staff introduced me to the small but growing literature on palliative care. The bad news usually isn't one-dimensional; if a technology is out of date, the processes being used by the workforce are probably outdated too.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Make sure the critical skills don’t already exist in-house. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Chief "Integration" Officer: Bringing together internal and external data and systems. Chief "Intelligence" Officer: Fostering business intelligence and getting the right data to the right people.

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