CEO Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a sales manager or company owner, embracing the remote selling trend is imperative. According to an October 2022 Zippia study, 26% of U.S. employees work remotely, and remote jobs make up 15% of all work opportunities. It also mentions that sales are one of the top industries for remote workers. While doing so, there […].

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Senior executives are closely involved in crafting the “story” of the organization — the message that goes out to the world — and they spend a good portion of their time outside the company, talking with stakeholders and observing the organization’s impact firsthand. It was much broader than that. Dan Pontefract.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? They refer me to the chief information security officer, but she works for the CIO, who doesn''t much like to hear what''s wrong with the system he built. Try the experiment in your company.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Generating Top-Line Growth. Participating in Strategy Formulation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. Here we accept the fact that much expertise is required, and only some people in a company have it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The job of the senior executive is much more complicated today than it was a decade or two ago — and that trend will continue, especially if you hope to play on a global stage (which is a nearly universal condition these days for many companies). Companies are increasingly global. Here are five reasons.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

The only way it can happen: marketing, IT, operations, and human resources functions must collaborate in unprecedented ways. But the insights won''t be useful unless companies change core business processes and employee behavior. Clicking on these pages shows a company that is educating customers, not hawking products.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The success of platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, and Netflix has led to envy bordering on despair for their competitors. Companies are right to be worried. Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. So what’s a legacy company to do?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. Here we accept the fact that much expertise is required, and only some people in a company have it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In particular, CIOs tell us that data scientists, security experts, and enterprise architects are hard to find. To win the talent war, companies need to change. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? The Business Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Platform.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Of course, this leaves too many companies vulnerable to technology-fueled disruption. To ensure that corporate governance includes sufficient oversight of technology, I propose companies follow the following principles: Hire a techie to your board. But this dearth of technology experts is one of the easiest problems to fix.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. Data scientists are definitely in short supply at the moment; ask any company that's trying to hire them. We're never satisfied with how the company is being run. You need them.

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