ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I liked helping them get past that so they could feel confident and productive. In R&D, organization members developed things to turn into products, presumably so our company could sell them and make more money. I didn’t like creating more work for them that was not related to developing the next new thing.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Resources CIO Chemicals 100

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The late Clayton Christensen famously highlighted that consumers are not buying our product as much as they are hiring it to complete a particular job. 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.

Innovation 91

Innovation Technology Operations CIO 91

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

Chief Information Officer 280

Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 280

ReImagine Work

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

That’s still a lot of money wasted on turnover, plummeting productivity, etc. ’ I know you have employees who aren’t delivering, or who are disrupting productivity. More are seeking help with their own development. We’re now hearing employee disengagement is at 60% to 70%, as compared to a solid 70% a few years ago.

CIO 100

CIO Performance Review Cost Career 100

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc. That being said, they also need to be actively engaged in catalyzing high impact sales, marketing, and business development activities with strategic and tactical partners outside the portfolio. of their portfolio companies.

Influence 291

Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 291

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

“The stakeholders promoting smart-city development will benefit from the crisis and use their experience from the temporary shutdown to accelerate digital transformation in their cities,” he writes. Indeed, the University of Dortmund’s Klaus Kunzmann argues that the pandemic has been a boon for the smart city movement.

GDP 134

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 134

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.

Company 100

Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 100

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. Mode 1 is related to non-distinctive IT: products and services are not directly influenced by it. In mode 2, IT is part of products and services and serves as a competitive weapon. Balance between Centralization and Decentralization.

Enterprise Architecture 50

Enterprise Architecture Process Decentralization Agility 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. The Rise of the CIO.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Left brainers are critical to accomplishing the engineering, finance, production and operational work that’s required to make meaningful change happen. Discover and develop “meaningfully unique” innovation. Add define and discover phases before the classic develop and deliver phases. His new book, Driving Eureka!

Innovation 57

Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

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.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Variations of this Big Data story line are being played out in executive offices around the world, with CMOs and CIOs in the thick of it. CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. IT leaders should acknowledge that they need to develop a way of sensing directional shifts early, so that they''re not caught flat-footed by the next thing that will disrupt the foundations of their business or their infrastructure. Scenarios and Innovation.

Scenario Planning 8

Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

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. Maximize engineering productivity. Run more experiments.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

Big Data involves not just the structured data (customer name and details, products purchased, how much was spent and when, etc.) Big Data is Not Just More Data : That’s because the nature of the data we can now collect has changed.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

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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Blog Content Media Brand 298

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. What’s more, that percentage generally goes down the lower the price of a product.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. While some banks and insurers were known for their service or products, most have long focused on operating as efficiently as possible. Developing an ecosystem of partners.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Content Customer Intimacy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer. That''s a huge shift.

CTO 8

CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

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. Imagine learning product design from Apple.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Financial Officer White Paper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I was impressed by the way he was treated there — like a human being, not a product in a factory — and by the staff's approach to delivering bad news. I was so taken with it that I've adapted it for my exec ed classes to help CIOs learn how to speak difficult truths more easily and effectively. What actions were taken?

System 15

System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

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.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. Today, CIOs and CEOs of large companies are faced with an overwhelming demand for digital transformation and a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice.

Agility 8

Agility Content CIO Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

“People in the Valley take a different approach to things,” Ralph Loura, the CIO of Clorox, told us. In many ways, the interviews we did with the CIOs of Google Inc., CIOs network with Valley technology leaders and venture capitalists in search of creative solutions to traditional IT problems. Facebook Inc.,

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

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

JULY 24, 2012

Helping my smaller vendors grow and get established is in my interest," notes Patty Morrison , CIO of Cardinal Health — and the kind of dynamic customer advocate ideal for any technology firm. "So It's great career development for them.". So I'm willing to do what I can to help you grow your customer base.

Reference 12

Reference CIO PR Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when we at CEB ask CIOs who in IT is responsible for understanding and responding to these needs, we get an uncomfortable silence. For years, CIOs have sought a "seat at the table" by building strong links with senior business leaders. Developing Employee-Focused Interface Roles. Adapting Product Marketing for IT.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing Project Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Digital experiences come in many guises: mobile apps, web sites, how-to videos on YouTube, LCD screens on products (think of exercise machines that track calories burned). 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.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 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. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

There are, however, some basic steps that hospital CIOs can take to reduce their risk and protect patients, devices, networks, and data: Assess device cybersecurity during procurement. In 2014 the International Organization for Standardization developed guidelines for the disclosure of potential vulnerabilities in products.

System 8

System CIO Health Care Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. The digital era also demands that consumers and organizations be secure.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 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 9

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

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. One of Watson's biggest hurdles will be the ambiguity of natural language.

CIO 14

CIO System Project Call Center 14