N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc.

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Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 291

ReImagine Work

JULY 7, 2016

Find a way to manage your FOMO. Manage work while not working. A version of this post originally ran on the CIO Online site on June 22, 2016 here. See my column, Navigating the Workplace , at CIO online here. Are they constantly checking, in meetings for instance? You can actually engage without distraction.

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Tactics Productivity Products CIO 100

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Bunkered away in R&D labs they often fall into the trap of focusing almost exclusively on the technology they’re developing rather than on the customer need it should be meeting. Unfortunately, to use the vernacular of Stephen Haeckel , many innovators adopt a make and sell approach rather than sense and respond.

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Innovation Technology Operations CIO 83

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Without modernizing practices related to these five themes and 27 sub-themes that I identify in my book, technology and digital divisions of companies are likely to become the boat anchors, holding the ship that is their enterprise back rather than being the engine and rudder, steering toward safety and opportunity and away from danger.

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Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 100

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

It may seem an obscure data management distinction, but this shift toward collecting unstructured data – which is a large part of what Big Data is all about – is sending shock waves across traditional organizations. In short, there is a lot more to doing business in the Big Data world than simply collecting and analyzing more data.

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CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. The Rise of the CIO. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

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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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings.

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Blog Content Media Brand 298

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer. That''s a huge shift.

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CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Even the internet search engine I use is not very smart — it's just a fancy look-up mechanism. At the same time, CIOs should be planning for the introduction of Watson-based technologies.

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CIO System Project Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The more CEOs speak with system engineers and technical teams, the more comfortable they will be asking questions about the organization’s security.

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Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Yet now, with Innovation Engineering – a data-driven, reliable system for creating fresh ideas and successfully turning them into reality – companies can transform innovation from a random act to a reliable science. Innovation Engineering methods and tools are designed to engage both left and right brain thinkers.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

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Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies. The essence of IoT is interconnectivity.

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Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Money is left on the table because managers are unwilling or unable to cross-sell their products and services, cross-pollinate resources to create new products, or share best practices to improve efficiency. According to former CIO John Leggate : "People always had a good reason for meetings. You're sharing best practices.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions. You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” This means managing entrepreneurs who can navigate trends and market behaviors. You persevere.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Managers in the latter category don’t give tough feedback, shy away from going to bat for their teams, and give in too easily to demands. Working for a manager who is conflict-averse can have deleterious effects on your performance and your career. All the managers I’ve talked to say they’d welcome that level of initiative,” he says.

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Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured. D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Now when you enter these questions in a search engine, River Pools web pages appear prominently. Developing customer trust requires managing interactions sensitively in an environment of increased transparency. Developing customer trust requires managing interactions sensitively in an environment of increased transparency.

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Customer Intimacy Supply Chain Market Segmentation Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. Insight Center.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8