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DECEMBER 7, 2010

A simple cost/benefit or risk/reward analysis should indicate whether your effort will be of value to you, and even if it is not of value to you, it may be to others. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

There is a marked dissonance between CIOs and the C-suite — a fact that we uncovered in new research conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global. We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. RIM is just the latest company to learn this lesson.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

So here it goes: I challenge you to do a two-year, full-time stint in government leadership, and to do it before your 70th birthday. What I discovered, much to my shock, was that at least in this one case, a governor wanted to make hiring decisions based not on politics, but on leadership talent. Those benefits far outweigh the costs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Ford invested heavily in digital initiatives only to see its stock price lag due to cost and quality issues elsewhere in the company. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Innovate more effectively? Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Customer expectations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., In this earlier mode, the IT organization was opaque, inside its silo, taking orders, and controlling costs and risks. And IT will need to continuously reduce its spending on "keeping the lights on" to free up resources and mindshare for innovation and problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. But I would suggest that there is something more fundamental happening behind the numbers; something lurking in the very nature of digital marketing and what it asks of leadership and what it means for accountability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

If the answers are inconsistent, or don''t reflect leadership''s intended positioning strategy, that can indicate one of two issues. Determine what these clients value most (speed, cost, etc.) For example, take an IT security firm targeting the CEOs, CIOs, and general counsels of small healthcare providers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

It is all well and good — and true — to say that the role and mandate of the CIO are expanding. But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. focus and vision. focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. Recent disclosure of digital spying abroad is expected to cost U.S. We’d be asking U.S. trillion this year. billion in 2014 to $4.82

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

And the New York Times lists “weak leadership” at Medicare as another complicating factor. These and other similar trends led columnist/economist Paul Krugman to predict improvements in healthcare spending , in part due to the Affordable Care Act: “The news on health costs is, in short, remarkably good,” he wrote.

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