Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. Currently, she is working as an online marketeer and is predominantly occupied with link building and web development. Balance between Centralization and Decentralization. In 2019 she will start her Master’s program in Digital Business.

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Enterprise Architecture Process Decentralization Agility 50

Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As Software engineers, developers, and programmers must be viewed as the artists of this generation. * * *.

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ReImagine Work

JULY 7, 2016

True professionals know how to avoid that, in sometimes counter-intuitive ways. Try one of these approaches and see how it improves your productivity and performance. You’ll have to decide how to make use of them to your benefit in your unique work culture. See my column, Navigating the Workplace , at CIO online here.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

During the initial implementation, the department staff had been trained in how to enter transactions into the new system, but no work had been done to help them transition away from their old processes and tools. They would be far more likely to give up redundant processes if they developed the new processes themselves.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This edition features insights on the softer aspects of leading others and why they are so important and on how streams are changing the way we lead and learn. The key however is to know, how to earn these things. A focus on culture, development, and leadership can pay off in more ways than one can imagine.

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Cooperperson

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In a previous article, “IT Communication in the Workplace,” I discussed the importance of developing communication skills of tech professionals to better connect with co-workers and customers. I recently came across a blog article which perfectly illustrates the point that communication skills in IT staff need to be developed.

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Skills CIO Information Technology Survey 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time. Most CIOs don't like being cast in the role of corporate psychic, but there's nothing they can do about it. So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. Better still, they should do this while overseas.

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CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. In working with these successful CIOs over the years, I have found that they all share a common set of practices, philosophies and approaches.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

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 Rise of the CIO. CEOs don''t think CIOs understanding the business , and how to apply IT in new ways to benefit the business. 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

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. The lesson here for new CIOs, in Higher Ed or elsewhere, is to know your audience and know them well.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

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. Victorio M.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. Variations of this Big Data story line are being played out in executive offices around the world, with CMOs and CIOs in the thick of it. To do that, both executives will need to change how they work?

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. IT leaders should acknowledge that they need to develop a way of sensing directional shifts early, so that they''re not caught flat-footed by the next thing that will disrupt the foundations of their business or their infrastructure. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). One of the key challenges CMOs face is figuring out how to partner with other internal functions. Put Business Needs First, Infrastructure Second.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. The CIO was unhappy about data integrity issues that arose from the integration of more than 20 discreet databases. PM Images/Getty Images. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports.

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CRM Project Succession CIO 12

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. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. Blogs can clearly be accretive, and will continue to add brand equity to those companies and individuals who grasp the value of social media and understand how to incorporate blogging into their social media efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There's a lesson in this for CIOs who are trying to make their budgets stretch ever further in these austere times. Development of small, low-cost, low-risk projects involving archived datasets can sometimes have a disproportionately high impact on the business — and on the CIO's reputation.

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CIO How To Policies Document 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. Digital disruption is rewriting job descriptions too, especially for the CIO. Internal departments and employees were once seen as the CIO’s customers. Developing an ecosystem of partners. Mastering big data.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Content Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Here’s how to master them. Instead, deliver the formal evaluation first, focusing on personal growth and development. One of the software developers on his team (we’ll call him Chad) wasn’t hitting his targets. “As Talk early and often. When you sit down with an employee to talk about salary, there shouldn’t be any surprises.

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CIO How To Case Study B2B 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I came to understand the reason for a phenomenon I had been aware of for years: Medical-center CIOs who are MDs tend to be much better at stating unpleasant truths about IT systems than nonmedical CIOs. CIOs need to engage with the CEO's informal influencers to gain insights into the visibility of this topic in the C-suite.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

And it was hard to figure out how to use electricity: Should you focus on building electric lights? Recently, with the evolution of IT and the internet, we saw the rise of CIOs to help companies organize their information. Indeed, many S&P 500 companies wish they had developed their internet strategy earlier.

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CIO Maturity Learning-by-Doing Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

"The most important thing you can bring to a dialogue with me is knowing my problems," says Patty Morrison , CIO of Cardinal Health. If you want to develop a customer as a reference, know everything you can about them. Often your most dynamic customer references are eager for personal and professional development.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Over the last two years, we have been engaged in primary research with The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly known as the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global in an attempt to paint a picture of how the role of the CIO and the IT department is changing. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). “I’ve been the beneficiary of a lot of great leaders’ taking a personal interest in my professional development,” he says.

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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

We consistently heard that the CIO was autocratic and intimidating, and that his people were afraid to talk openly about mistakes. Knowing that this was an important issue for project success, we met with the CIO alone and, with some trepidation, gave him this feedback — direct and to the point. Is that true?”

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CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

At Sloan Valve , CIO Tom Coleman told us that they only launch a few major programs each year because that allows them to staff and integrate these initiatives with much higher quality. You need to develop organizational structures and controls that are appropriate for both sustaining and disruptive innovations. Track fewer measures.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both. At Cisco, we prepare candidates for top slots by using executive assessments to identify strengths and development areas and by giving individuals strategic assignments to fill experience voids and provide greater exposure opportunities.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

However, when we ask CIOs how their "enabling" is going, they consistently respond that sometimes it goes well; sometimes not so much. At a recent CIO roundtable, one CIO said that the demand for IT in his company is infinite. And other CIOs nodded in agreement. IT Cannot Be Only the CIO''s Responsibility.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

That puts your strategy in the hands of inexperienced company strategists who are focused, often solely, on how to reach a quota. But remember, every hour spent developing an opportunity that’s outside your sweet spot is a non-strategic use of time, energy, and resources. McKinsey & Co. Are you comfortable with that?

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Strategy Execution How To CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

That's what's going to arrest people's attention and make them willing to develop a closer relationship with you. Your mileage may vary, but in this case: One CIO called back immediately, and a week later initiated a dialog about the consulting firm's services. What kind of homework? Research the person! The results were telling.

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Venture Capitalist How To CIO Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In particular, CIOs tell us that data scientists, security experts, and enterprise architects are hard to find. How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. Learning when and how to use Talent-as-a-Service requires practice as well as guidance from those experienced with the crowdsourcing platforms.

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Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn.

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CIO Chief Financial Officer White Paper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Helping my smaller vendors grow and get established is in my interest," notes Patty Morrison , CIO of Cardinal Health — and the kind of dynamic customer advocate ideal for any technology firm. "So It's great career development for them.". So I'm willing to do what I can to help you grow your customer base.

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Reference CIO PR Learning-by-Doing 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. Executives allowed their technology team to acquire a lot of products, but no one understood what the advanced tools were supposed to accomplish or how to use them.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. Today, CIOs and CEOs of large companies are faced with an overwhelming demand for digital transformation and a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice.

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