Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., There are all kinds of new energy providers (especially in U.S.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

We do not know to what extent this approach was replicated within the bank and cannot, therefore, say whether it was applied in the CIO unit that incurred the recent trading losses. A number of executives in the Chief Investment Office (CIO), where the loss was incurred, left the bank soon after the loss had been revealed. But was it?

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings.

CIO 15

CIO Human Resources Talent Management Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is a huge divergence from the traditional norm for chief roles, but the CE is a necessary position of power to ensure that a company innovates. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company. But how do you hire for the role? Where do you look?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation.

Motivation 8

Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. PM Images/Getty Images. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports.

CRM 13

CRM Project Succession CIO 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Bob in Finance simply didn’t bring his own mainframe to work. CIOs who don’t empower their workforce become disempowered. Ralph Lora, the CIO of Clorox, riffing off the antagonistic concept of “shadow IT,” , has implemented an approach he calls “Shallow IT.” company. .”

CIO 8

CIO Information Technology Enterprise Architecture Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Unfortunately, the business outlook could change if ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to office and fulfills his pledges to cancel pension reform and budget constraints. China’s military buildup now allows it to project power across those sea lanes, challenging the freedom of navigation guaranteed by the U.S.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9