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. Continuous Development is a growing trend in the software industry.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

Today''s IT leaders have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but like the frog, they didn''t notice the boiling point approaching because the change has happened over so many decades. No longer will this position''s relevance be tied to how well he or she can oversee the development of technology.

CTO 8

CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 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.

Execution 13

Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 13

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. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. We call this view “the power to know, share, and act,” and it has three interrelated dimensions. The second dimension is the power to discover, manage, and use information for individual and group problem solving, innovation, and decision making. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

With Kodak balancing on the precipice , a classic case study on the company offers powerful lessons that still resonate 20 years after it was written. The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. Today corporations are said to be more enlightened.

CIO 9

CIO Outsourcing Cost Center Film 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. Done right, these have the power to win over skeptics, but all too often they lose momentum or offer additional lightweight technical functionality that is meaningless to business people. It's not as if IT departments aren't busy.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

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. This puts immense pressure on the organization to keep up with the competition while trying to innovate in its own right. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

When combined with powerful analytics, digital data allow marketers to segment their audience and create propensity models that can predict how and when to influence customers to buy. These skills are now reaching beyond data analysis to encompass information architecture, application development, and technology project management.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

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. Dr. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. Customer expectations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Michael Cuthrell.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation. Some champions are visionary types with deep domain focus.

Motivation 8

Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

You had to choose between AC and DC power, different voltages, different levels of reliability, pricing, and so on. 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.

CIO 10

CIO Maturity Learning-by-Doing Industry 10

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. This is giving rise to a schizophrenic IT organization.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Consider: Standards-based (rather than proprietary) technologies in mobility, Internet protocols and open API''s demand shorter application and infrastructure development cycle times. CIOs need to provide infrastructure at a lower cost and with more agile capability. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

But despite the different timescale, the challenge for real estate executives is not unlike the one facing CIOs: to make sure a new investment will not quickly become obsolete. Those collisions, as research (mine and others’) shows , increase learning, collaboration, and ultimately innovation. Innovation in structural systems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8