Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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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). Below are four suggestions for building this power partnership in your company. Find Common Ground. Put Business Needs First, Infrastructure Second.

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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 [.] Good content will rise above the noise.

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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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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. Insight Center.

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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. While not as old and not yet as mature as cloud systems, it warrants a closer look.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Senior executives struggle with burnout just like everyone else, and technology has made this issue more prevalent than ever. 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). Andy Molinsky.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Those failures can mean a lot of things — over-budget, data integrity issues, technology limitations, and so forth. PM Images/Getty Images. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports.

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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. Standards reduce not only the amount of technology but also the risk associated with bringing new and legacy technologies together.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company. company. .”

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Recent research conducted by IBM among global boardroom and C-suite executives in 28 countries found that better cybersecurity is among their top technology priorities. But with CMOs and CIOs working together, this could just be the beginning. Online security and customer intimacy go hand in hand. Insight Center.

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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. This is giving rise to a schizophrenic IT organization.

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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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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. It helps students see that Kodak did not understand or invest in the digital technologies that were to sweep away its business, a failure usually attributed to incumbent executive myopia.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

More than ever, customer experiences are based on a foundation of technology and delivered to a digitally-savvy population. 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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. As CIOs pitch new IT projects and their teams undertake delivery, cost and effort estimates can vary wildly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

A powerful science-fiction movie changed my life 43 years ago. The system, which is not connected to the internet, will meet this challenge by integrating data and analytics from multiple models of each problem in parallel to rapidly develop a set of possible solutions before selecting the best one — and answer in English.

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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. In 1920-21 farmers were hard hit by deflation.

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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. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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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. that has both organizational and technological components. This question also cannot be delegated to the CIO. It is based on four questions.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Dr. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Yet, although the power of analytics is common currency, it’s spoken of far more often than it’s practiced. The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

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. But that doesn't make moving forward any easier.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. The CIO of HP Inc.,

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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' That split is increasingly irrelevant.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Bogsnes and his team focused on two powerful levers: abolishing the traditional budget in favor of a more dynamic and distributed process, and scrapping the annual calendar for a more continuous and variable approach to setting time-horizons for a particular business or project. Growing People: The Heart of the Organizational Transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

But no one yet is successfully leveraging consumer data and relationships across the digital-physical divide at scale, despite early experimentation with technology such as beacons. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. ” Data. Brands can then enhance their core data set.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

The marketing head of an ambitious technology firm recently shared with me a vexing problem: Apple was one of their customers. Just because a salesman says he needs a reference from Boeing to close a deal doesn''t mean that he really does, or that some lesser known brand might not furnish a more powerful proof point. Use LinkedIn.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The good news is that you can harness the power of platforms and network effects without turning yourself completely inside out. But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Sponsored by DXC Technology. The business press tends to focus on “pure-play” platforms like Facebook, eBay, and PayPal.

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