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

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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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.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

During the initial implementation, the department staff had been trained in how to enter transactions into the new system, but no work had been done to help them transition away from their old processes and tools. 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

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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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

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. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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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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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. Avoiding the Schizophrenic IT Organization.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. ” There are several strategies that can be used to develop IoT talent. Then go beyond that.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

As Roger Chen, director of performance excellence, and Lisa Cannata, director of learning and organizational development, told me, it's vital to iron out the people and process issues before introducing the technology. If there are, people will develop a sense of ownership and many will become ambassadors of change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

But remember, every hour spent developing an opportunity that’s outside your sweet spot is a non-strategic use of time, energy, and resources. Instead of calling on IT managers or purchasing staff to buy equipment, they’ll need to start talking with senior managers all the way up to the CIO. It’s a balancing act.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The executives reporting to the CEO have doubled in the past three decades, mostly an increase in functional specialists like CIOs and CMOs, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration [ PDF ]. Those practices were developed at other companies pursuing different strategies. The same should be true in sales.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. 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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

First, CIOs and technical leaders too often take a limited “tech-implementation” view and measure success on deployment metrics like live sites or licenses. Budget for the communication, training and organizational development required to succeed. Engage your HR and Organizational Development people early.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. Any hint of move from that world could threaten the livelihood of a trained and certified software professional. Yet, although the power of analytics is common currency, it’s spoken of far more often than it’s practiced.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

What if training and development programs unleashed human potential rather than packed people full of curricula, models, and competencies? That's the question Todd Pierce asked himself after years of experimenting with the full menu of leadership development models in his capacity as CIO of biotech giant Genentech.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Opportunities to develop new friendships and interdisciplinary collaboration. I recently caught up with Keith Jennings, the current CIO, to see if some of the longer-term initiatives had achieved the intended results. A chance to use their skills and expertise to make a positive contribution.

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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 CIO of HP Inc., running out of ink), and it enticed many customers.

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