LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These findings imply that getting individuals to connect and share their work, setbacks and insights can amplify the creativity produced by the team. Whether your researching the actions of individual cells, or leading a cross-functional team for a new program launch, you stand to benefit from the creative power of our old friend: meetings.

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Chief Information Officer Creativity Software Conference 104

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the VUCA world in which we now operate many businesses have become more agile, networked and team centric in order to respond to the challenges of more competition and digital disruption. So where do you start to get the C-suite working as a team? However, this is all about to change.

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Chief Information Officer Team Human Capital Survey 186

Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

What I mean by the letting go part is that you have to expand your field of vision beyond the vertical axis of just focusing on what your boss wants and what your team needs. One of the leaders I interviewed for the new edition was Avon’s Chief Information Officer, Donagh Herlihy. 

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Goleman Executive Coaching Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 163

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I would later become the first minister he hired for his government and a very close collaborator in his core team. Build a team with a fresh perspective. For the Prime Minister, it also meant that he had to empower his team to make autonomous decisions. Turbulence.

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How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

While running an operations service company for software R&D centers in Ukraine, I’ve seen enough companies fail to properly set up teams abroad at the beginning. Vendors who lacked transparency and/or couldn’t live up to contractual expectations were usually to blame.

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Offshoring Licensing How To Magazine 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Executive teams replete with functional experts (CFOs, CHROs, etc.) This model of a small, BU-leader-staffed team was the model for many decades, although some companies named a COO to act as an intermediary between the CEO and the BU leaders. CEOs have always had to address conflicts between team members.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

” You and Your Team Series. Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). Making Work More Meaningful. You’re Never Done Finding Purpose at Work. Dan Pontefract.

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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

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.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 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

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Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 281

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

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. Research shows that you can’t just add a new member to a team without renegotiating the roles and relationships. Have this negotiation as part of the new Chief Data Officer on-boarding.

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Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 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.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I would later become the first minister he hired for his government and a very close collaborator in his core team. Our team knew from the start we would be working in an extremely high turbulence environment. For the Prime Minister, it also meant that he had to empower his team to make autonomous decisions.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Typical IG committee members include the general counsel, the chief risk officer, the chief compliance officer, the chief information officer, the chief information security officer, and the chief data officer.

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Ethics Company Committee Chief Information Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For instance, the general counsel thinks about the issue in terms of compliance with information security regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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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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Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

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. He earned our trust so we were much more open with him." —Chief Information Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Seeking more influence and power, the company’s Chief Information Officer has altered his title, becoming Chief Innovation Officer. The innovation team is considered “the CEO’s thing,” disconnected from business units and their most pressing concerns.

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Innovation Company Chief Information Officer Long-term 9

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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. CIOs who belong to the executive management team can play the strategic role that''s key to success. Their organizations face disruption from both traditional and non-traditional competitors, and constant change. And if you work for a laggard, good luck!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

For their part, IT executives believe marketers make promises they can''t keep and do not provide them with adequate information on business requirements. The CIOs believe the marketing teams often do not understand — or appreciate — data integration or IT standards. Surely there is truth to both sides'' complaints.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 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.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

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. That''s a huge shift.

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CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

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.

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

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.

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Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 9

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.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

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. Now instead at ING they say, "Here''s your team. He found IT to be completely detached from anything like a real end customer.

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Marketing Six Sigma Agility Banking 8

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). The CMO now has the ability to be more hands-on with the customer information that is typically reserved for the CIO's team.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Mason decided to pitch a total rebranding — a new logo, new tagline, and new copy and photography for ads and communications — to the new executive team brought in to prep the company for an IPO. Marketing was a bit of a nebulous concept for the executive team,” he says. The price tag? An 8-fold increase in the marketing budget.

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IPO Audience Chief Information Officer Case Study 9

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. This office design isn’t found only in Silicon Valley, but it is often used there to encourage collaboration.

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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Juliana Stancampiano, author of RADICAL OUTCOMES: How To Create Extraordinary Teams That Get Tangible Results is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Oxygen. When they identify the desired business result(s) first, they can then identify the tasks necessary to achieve them. About the Author.

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CIO Guidelines Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 86

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We needed to shield the team from being flooded by business intelligence reporting projects. The team had to be motivated. We gave project teams independence in choosing how they solved the problems they took on. Of course, a team couldn’t cancel a project for arbitrary reasons.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. a trusting and trustworthy nature (to better build and nurture cross-functional teams). It is all well and good — and true — to say that the role and mandate of the CIO are expanding. focus and vision.

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