CEO Insider

MAY 6, 2022

An important part of designing your investment and retirement strategy is deciding exactly what your wealth goals are. You’ll want to determine how you plan to spend the money that you save or earn through investing later in life. Some individuals may seek to set higher wealth goals as they will want to continue to […].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Why is that some companies have great heads of strategy who make an outstanding contribution to their companies while others don’t? To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the leaders I interviewed for the new edition was Avon’s Chief Information Officer, Donagh Herlihy.  The advice from successful executive leaders is pick up looking left, right and diagonally as you lead and let go of primarily looking up and down as you lead.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

We led the fight against terrorism, redesigned the higher education system in the country, formulated a five-year strategic plan for “Digital Tunisia,” created a “country chief information officer” role that reports directly to the Prime Minister. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

Clearly then the C-suite needs to adapt from being independent C-level functional experts working in silos to become a team that work in harmony together to direct the overall strategy of the organisation. So where do you start to get the C-suite working as a team?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As technology expands the way that marketing is understood, led, and practiced, there are exciting new opportunities for Chief Marketing Officers and Chief Information Officers to drive growth by collaborating and transforming their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These leaders will have to navigate myriad converging and disruptive technologies, align new initiatives to both business value and technology feasibility, and identify strategies to leverage existing investments to fund innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

But in pursuing new strategies like open innovation, hackathons, corporate venture capital investing, or the “lean startup” methodology, the hulking mass of corporate culture and structure can get in the way. One of the typical flaws I’ve seen in innovation programs is starting without a clear view of strategy: What is it supposed to do?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. Move Beyond Enterprise IT to an API Strategy. IT management Information & technology Strategy' Their organizations face disruption from both traditional and non-traditional competitors, and constant change. It''s C-Suite Problem.

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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

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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. The Amazon strategy I described above has not happened — yet.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Many organizations have recognized the dangers of siloed data and have started to form a committee to coordinate an information governance strategy. This committee can offer guidance on available solutions for protecting employee privacy while staying in line with corporate objectives.

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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. To begin with, they find themselves more and more often acting as a referee.

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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. There are plenty of coaches and consultants who will gladly hire on as a CIO's personal psychic, but becoming a true believer is a dangerous strategy.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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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. Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference.

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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. In that time, weve tracked dramatic changes in attitudes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Traditionally, marketers were focused mostly on creative and brand strategies, but now they are tasked with turning Big Data into relevant customer experiences via multiple channels and throughout the new decision lifecycle. But why is it that two leaders focused on the same ultimate goal cannot make better progress in working together?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

One of the protocols that's used for teaching medical students how to break bad news goes by the (perhaps unfortunate) acronym SPIKES ( setting up the interview; assessing the patient's perception ; obtaining the patient's invitation ; giving knowledge ; addressing the patient's emotions ; and establishing a treatment strategy ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Examples of great from/to statements include: From an individual contributor who adds value through technical expertise and closely follows others’ directions, to a people leader who creates a clear strategy and delivers results through a small team. If your goal is to be great at early-stage pharma R&D, it’s the same process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Make sure you also show how that the need aligns with corporate goals and strategies,” Sheen says. They knew they needed to do it,” but they weren’t sure why or what tangible effect a new marketing strategy might have. Just because you see an opportunity doesn’t mean that the business will want to pursue it.”.

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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.”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When they identify the desired business result(s) first, they can then identify the tasks necessary to achieve them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

However, there is still a lack of clarity about how different data-oriented roles (chief information officer, chief data officer, chief digital officer, chief analytics officer, etc.) relate to each other. The rise of AI is only exacerbating this trend.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Rajiv Banker and colleagues at Temple University''s Fox School of Business found that organizations with cost leadership strategies and CIOs who report to the CFO have higher performance than peers with CIOs who report to the CEO.

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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. The reality has been the opposite.

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