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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

How would your CFO or CIO handle this? A senior global business and technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in IT, finance, operations management, and change leadership, he lives in Mason, Ohio. An excerpt is below. His new book is Tech Debt 2.0™:

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Why Can't a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Harvard Business Review

But it should be the CIO''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. The time is ripe for CIOs to take a page from the CFOs'' playbook to ensure both accountability and responsibility for information creation.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. Communication will be key to this partnership because the CEO is the person who can help finance your future experiments. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO. The candidate is someone with a passion for taking calculated risks.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Instead of thinking about driving value from the perspective of IT, or HR, finance, sales, or operations, leadership teams will think about a problem they want to solve or a process they want to change, and then align the full breadth of services (IT, HR, operations) needed to accomplish it. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer.