Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

But there''s a catch for CIOs and other tech-minded executives: to keep creating opportunities, companies must keep changing the experience or fall behind. Each generation of technologies raises customer expectations beyond the last. Optimize marketing efforts to achieve influence at scale. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 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. These are finite resources.

CIO 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. Yet, we observed that IT projects are planned and supervised with very scant information.

Technology 8

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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.

CIO 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

Competitive Advantage 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. As Roger Chen, director of performance excellence, and Lisa Cannata, director of learning and organizational development, told me, it's vital to iron out the people and process issues before introducing the technology.

Technology 13

Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Some of the displays are quite cool — I particularly like, for example, the "heatmap" showing where P&G''s products stand in their respective markets. P&G''s CIO Filippo Passerini calls it "getting beyond the what to the why and the how." Consumer goods Decision making Information & technology'

Supply Chain 8

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

These companies spent millions to develop digital products, infrastructures, and brand accompaniments, and got tremendous media and investor attention, only to encounter significant performance challenges, and often shareholder dissent. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change. Ross, principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). DXC Technology helps companies bridge the gap in digital transformation.

Technology 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. For many industries, technology has become the transformative force.

Scenario Planning 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. The timetable for implementing these projects is often months, not years. the IT function).

Organization 8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Infrastructure and substructure support the information, processes, applications, rules, and channels that are the face of corporate IT. Infrastructure largely determines the IT organization''s structure, its budgeting, how the corporation goes to market, its legacy, and its capacity to change. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

CIO 9

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 9

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. Sponsored by DXC Technology. The essence of IoT is interconnectivity. Insight Center. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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