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

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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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

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

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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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

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

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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Agility Development Organization Software 8

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 16

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

Haim is certainly a tragic figure and there’s something to be said for what happens when success and power come before you know how to handle it. One of the things you often hear famous people talk about is the number of new “friends” they seem to cultivate once they increase their star power. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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CIO Godin Blog Crisis Management 44

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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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. PM Images/Getty Images. The numbers ranged from 18% to 69%. The result?

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CRM Project Succession CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

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Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

On the same call, Dimon himself announced that the global supervisor of the London office and head of the firm's retired Chief Investment Office (CIO), Ina Drew , would voluntarily give up the "equivalent to the maximum clawback amount." Drew earned $15.5 million in 2011, including $7.5 in severance according to this year's Proxy Statement.

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CIO Risk Management Policies Reputation 12

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.

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Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

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.

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CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 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.

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CIO Maturity Learning-by-Doing Industry 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

With an equally powerful advocacy value proposition. This can be a powerful win-win that provides customers with verification, a learning tool, and a basis for building best practices, while providing a case study or success story for you. It's great career development for them.". If any are not, correct the problems swiftly.

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Reference CIO PR Learning-by-Doing 13

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

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Our own research has further looked at the problem.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 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.

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CIO Outsourcing Cost Center Film 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

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Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

This shift blurs the lines of control as supply chain, customer relationship management, and other data systems become subordinate sources for information critical to marketing success. These skills are now reaching beyond data analysis to encompass information architecture, application development, and technology project management.

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Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

It embodies the long tail realities of major business and technology decisions, resulting in an IT department struggling to manage multiple costly and incompatible infrastructures. CIOs need to provide infrastructure at a lower cost and with more agile capability. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

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CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

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. The tech staff at companies like Google, Facebook and LinkedIn use agile, iterative development techniques to deliver improvements fast. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

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CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. What if our approach to leadership was to evolve into Drucker''s vision of "socially accountable and culturally embedded" management? It is a social function.

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CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

A powerful science-fiction movie changed my life 43 years ago. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. At the same time, CIOs should be planning for the introduction of Watson-based technologies. Will a TV game show next week change some kid's life in the same way?

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CIO System Project Call Center 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

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Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

The investment, both in dollars and management commitment, can be large. CIOs stress the need to entirely remake data architecture and applications. Outside vendors hawk the power of black-box models to crunch through unstructured data in search of cause and effect relationships. The answer, simply put, is to develop a plan.

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Planning Strategic Planning CIO Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

I call this phenomenon “executive brownout” and the details of El-Erian’s departure (not to mention more recent reporting on the conduct of his co-CIO Bill Gross, who has also since resigned) only confirmed my opinion that he was very likely suffering from it. Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is a huge divergence from the traditional norm for chief roles, but the CE is a necessary position of power to ensure that a company innovates. The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions. But how do you hire for the role?

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In our survey of 30 Brazil country managers in October, 20 reported increased revenue growth, despite the country’s dysfunctional, scandal-ridden politics. Europe’s migrant crisis illustrates how events in developing countries create ripple effects that ultimately affect global business.

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Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

For example, let's assume the CIO who is making the $350,000 purchase of storage technology is your coach and he is a guide. This reason may range from the simple fact that they like you, to the complicated nature of politics, where your solution helps them gain power, prestige, or authority. You're guaranteed to win!

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CIO Politics Committee Information 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. When we asked the managers what a better proportion might be, their answers were: 75% on day-to-day operations. Sustaining Innovation.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 11

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 Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

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. One managing partner credited the outreach with producing a 750k deal.

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Venture Capitalist How To CIO Bottom-up 16

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. A charismatic CIO or Chief Digital Officer may make it even harder to be level-headed in those heady times.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

As a product designer, I cut my teeth on enterprise software at Trilogy in Austin; we developed configuration tools for Ford and Nissan, pricing solutions for the insurance vertical, and supply-chain and selling management software for a host of different companies. Design Product development IT'

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Software Supply Chain B2C Education 8