Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

Budgeting 10

Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

Engineering 8

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

Engineering 8

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. They're savvy about mobility, broadband internet, smartphone apps, and the value of a good CIO. In the early 1990s, Kodak's IT function was focused on systems and internal services.

CIO 9

CIO Outsourcing Cost Center Film 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

I believe, though, that it is at the enterprise level that mobile could truly become a game changer for Africa , enabling the building of massive fortunes, and perhaps even the much anticipated recycling of innovation from Africa to the West. The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy. That is where the results are already visible.

CIO 15

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8