Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Be strategic and operational. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. A far better strategy is to take the people that they have and develop them into blended executives.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem? The Rise of the CIO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

There is a marked dissonance between CIOs and the C-suite — a fact that we uncovered in new research conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global. We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 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.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others.

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Technology CIO Content Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. It was beset by destabilizing changes to leadership, a lack of appropriate capability, poor coordination, over-complexity, underdeveloped plans in continual flux, and poor budgeting.

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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 26, 2013

Kim Stevenson , Intel''s CIO, summarizes the challenge well: "[IT functions have] gone through ERP, they''ve gone through BYO and they''ve gone through cloud, and they think they''ve done it all. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. It requires new modes of operation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology Younger generations will not operate like the current generation of leaders ….If

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. Information-oriented business models are incorporated in many digital companies right from their inception but are more difficult to develop and scale in large, established companies. Measuring and developing employees’ information capabilities. Transforming legacy IT.

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Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Yet with each wave, the criticality of IT to basic operations and delivery of service to customers continues to escalate.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. Outside cybersecurity experts can help develop the plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. At the oil giant BP a few years back, efforts to promote collaboration across the many operating business were so successful that employees over-collaborated. Under-collaboration.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

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. Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team).

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. Likewise, I know numerous chief HR officers who have done tours in business, operations, HR, and elsewhere. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

They call it a "WeOrg" — and their story offers up a playbook for any organization looking to inject more freedom and self-regulation into its operations. What if training and development programs unleashed human potential rather than packed people full of curricula, models, and competencies? Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. The cross-organizational nature of integrating data means that unless you are working with the support of executive leadership, and leaders across business and IT, you will be frustrated.

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Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. They did not spend as much time thinking about local events that have implications for their emerging market operations. They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field.

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