N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Policy & controls development with implementation. Network systems security.

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ReImagine Work

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was attending a weeklong deep-dive professional development session on my own. I didn’t want to be that person — the one who… Click here to read the rest of this article in my column at CIO Online. There’s no substitute for firsthand experience, like this one. The hotel where I was staying was imposing.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to developing government as a platform, nations have generally taken slightly unique approaches. In the Netherlands, a number of key portals have been developed by central government agencies, such as Overheid.nl and Ondernemersplein.nl , with these portals designed to help signpost citizens to the correct resources.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 29, 2013

John Mattone is known among leaders of Fortune 500 companies as a cutting-edge thinker in the areas of leadership and talent management. Bob''s blog entries AgFirst Farm Credit Bank Albert Einstein AMACOM Babson College Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville CEO Magazine CIO magazine CLO Magazine Columbia University Fast Company FedEx Inc.

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ReImagine Work

JANUARY 13, 2017

I was attending a weeklong deep-dive professional development session on my own. I asked for a manager. The manager began to explain what I was paying for. A version of this post originally ran on the CIO online site on December 15, 2016. I was a young professional on one of my first big business trips.

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Hotels CIO Workshop Project 100

ReImagine Work

MARCH 2, 2017

When I was an HR manager employees would talk in my office at performance appraisal time and ask me how to interpret this feedback from their bosses. You’ll notice they are balanced to get feedback on both strengths and development needs. At this phase of my career, what do you consider is important to develop?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

According to Korn Ferry unpublished data, there has been a 74% increase in the number of CIOs serving on Fortune 100 boards in the past two years. Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. ” How should boards incorporate a CIO director?

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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I had my master’s in HR and was acting as HR manager at an R&D lab, with over 500 constituents. Those in charge expected me to push more employment-related tasks to employees and managers. In R&D, organization members developed things to turn into products, presumably so our company could sell them and make more money.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

What a sad commentary on the state of equity markets, since it’s the best way for an investor to manage the risk surrounding their investment. I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc. Hint: it’s not about the money. . of their portfolio companies.

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ReImagine Work

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

I’ve talked to hundreds if not thousands of employees as a friend, a fellow employee or an HR manager, and now as a solo coach and trainer. The Society for Human Resources Management says there’s a 50% to 75% turnover cost for salaried employees. More are seeking help with their own development. Image credit: Pixabay/stux.

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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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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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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For instance, Singapore is regularly at the top of the Smart City Index , and a common feature of those at the top of these rankings is that they were also able to effectively manage the pandemic via smart technologies. A smarter normal. “The coronavirus pandemic will not stop the smart transformation of cities. Intelligent cities.

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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. We are in the midst of a computing renaissance, when all CIOs will need to raise their game and master this same set of practices.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The enterprise architecture should manage changes in the architecture, but input by other employees should be appreciated. This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. And example of a mode 2 process is employee skills management. Additionally, mode 2 requires agility.

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Enterprise Architecture Process Decentralization Agility 50

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 CIOs should avoid relying on just one source, no matter how well respected, and widen the range of events they attend.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

CIOs who do great things in leading IT soon gain extra responsibilities. By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

For the past four years, Accenture has conducted an annual survey of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) to understand the state of their collaboration. And 83 percent of CIOs say that they need to align and interact with Marketing. In that time, weve tracked dramatic changes in attitudes.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

The long-time CIO of Google, Ben Fried, indicated that the way in which that company has maintained its entrepreneurial spirit despite growing into a behemoth has been its ability to attract and retain people who are comfortable with and even drive change, even if it means cannibalizing what has worked in the past.

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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. It requires that IT staff — and our customers — are continuously learning.

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, a survey just conducted by Accenture Interactive (see The CMO-CIO Disconnect ) points to a downright unhealthy relationship in many C-Suites which can do nothing but damage to firms. To begin to mend the CMO-CIO relationship, it''s important to understand the source of each side''s frustrations.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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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). A recent study (also from IBM) indicates that more than 70% of CMOs feel they are underprepared to manage the explosion of data and "lack true insight.".

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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

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Along with the transition, the college had implemented an enterprise resource management system to automate many processes that had previously been done on paper, spreadsheets, or staff members’ tools of choice. They would be far more likely to give up redundant processes if they developed the new processes themselves.

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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. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Run more experiments.

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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. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

How can managers generate competitive advantage from their cloud investments? To begin to answer these questions, we conducted some qualitative research, using in-depth interviews with about two dozen CIOs and senior IT managers whose organizations have evaluated or adopted cloud computing services.

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Competitive Advantage Development CIO Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When we talk about “learning to love your job” or “managing yourself,” it’s often in the context of junior or midlevel roles. 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).

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Innovation is always infectious.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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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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