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A Kodak Moment to Reconsider the Value of IT

Harvard Business Review

The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. They're savvy about mobility, broadband internet, smartphone apps, and the value of a good CIO. In the early 1990s, Kodak's IT function was focused on systems and internal services.

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IT Has Finally Cracked the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives. As a consequence, CIOs work on go-to-market strategies as well as on acquiring and retaining new customers. To borrow a computer-science term, the denotational semantics are all wrong.

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