Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Months of investigation by a cyber consulting firm finally determined the source of the vulnerability to Azotrope’s network: a combination printer/fax machine in their testing and QA area that engineers regularly used to fax lunch orders to a local Chinese restaurant. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 99

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. Also, the concept of digital business ecosystems has drawn more academic business , economics , process , scientific , mathematic , systems theory , and engineering attention than any other business idea.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

True, we can point to the fact that airplanes are massively engineered for reliability, but let’s look beyond the machinery. Assign a leader to this organization and establish a leadership team to support that person. The industry directly employs more than 11 million people with varying capabilities around the world. finance, I.T.,

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 272

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys.

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

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

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Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 281

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology.

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CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Much as war is too important to be left to the generals, the business of network effects is too valuable to be entrusted to the CMOs and CIOs. Network effects are the not-so-secret sauce profitably flavoring Amazon’s recommendation engines and Apple’s App Store. Information & technology Leadership Social media'

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The more CEOs speak with system engineers and technical teams, the more comfortable they will be asking questions about the organization’s security.

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Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. According to former CIO John Leggate : "People always had a good reason for meetings. Massive failures abound in the business world. You're sharing best practices.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Leadership teams must recognize that being successful will take courage, because once they embark on the journey, the insights from data analytics will often point to the need for decisions that could require a course correction.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Dr. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. Imagine that you’re on a tight schedule driving an 18 wheeler and your engine light comes on when you’re 100 miles from the nearest service station. Organizational leadership. What to do?

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

I’m 100% in favor of kindness and compassion in leadership. When those requests didn’t come through, he talked with Bryan’s boss, the company’s CIO. “I We lost four senior engineers and two managers in a three-month timeframe.” If this sounds like your boss, your career may be at risk. What the Experts Say.

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Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Consider how Nest is networking its thermostats, smoke alarms, and cameras to create home security solutions, or how Caterpillar and GE are each networking their equipment and engines to save millions in maintenance costs. Everyone on the leadership team has a role to play in making this pivot.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage. We’d be asking U.S. trillion this year. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.).

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8