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.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

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CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Recent research conducted by IBM among global boardroom and C-suite executives in 28 countries found that better cybersecurity is among their top technology priorities. But with CMOs and CIOs working together, this could just be the beginning. Online security and customer intimacy go hand in hand.

Marketing 8

Marketing Customer Intimacy CIO Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It’s no wonder, then, that more than 90% of B2B sellers have turned to content marketing to help regain access to buyers in the early stages of the purchase process. The research, involving over 5,000 B2B purchase participants across 12 industries, uncovered three mistakes that undermine firms’ content marketing.

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B2B Content Marketing Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology. Companies can execute major process improvements to reduce risk and allow organizational learning by breaking projects down into a series of small, reversible experiments.

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Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

It wasn’t long ago and, yet, in technology terms, it’s almost an eternity — ride- or hotel-sharing companies didn’t exist yet and the first generation of social media platforms were just hitting the mainstream. Consumer technology and its potential went largely ignored in the enterprise. A young U.S.

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CIO Survey Strategic Planning Technology 9

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. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

The world was globalizing, corporations expanding, and spreadsheets and paper would no longer suffice. But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository.

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Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 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.

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Agility Content CIO Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. Only a quarter of executives felt their CIO was performing above his or her peers.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

However, when we ask CIOs how their "enabling" is going, they consistently respond that sometimes it goes well; sometimes not so much. At a recent CIO roundtable, one CIO said that the demand for IT in his company is infinite. And other CIOs nodded in agreement. These are finite resources.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Content marketing is a start, but articles and posts on social media don’t go deep enough. It’s time to flip the corporate university inside out, blending marketing with learning to create relationships beyond the transaction. In contrast, IBM’s program helped CIOs be better business leaders.

CIO 8

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

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

It is consumers that have made Africa the fastest growing mobile market in the world. But so far they've concentrated their marketing power at consumers, and invested in selling mainly broadband-related products to the corporate sector. The market is completely open. The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy.

CIO 14

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Digital technologies enable companies to better engage with their customers and offer superior experiences at affordable costs. Dr. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. The Global Digital Economy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. The stakes are high, with International Data Corporation estimating that global business investments in D&A will surpass $200 billion a year by 2020. Increase market share? reduced instances of teams playing four games in five days by 26%.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

A global consulting firm I work with has an explicit strategy to target Fortune 1000 companies, yet less than 15% of their business comes from those companies. Many companies in my experience have a similar disconnect between their intended market or customer type and their actual client base.

Strategy 8

Strategy Execution How To CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. But more than anything else, younger consumers like their technology. Where do they shop?

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

But I'm most fascinated by how Timeline plugs in to Facebook Connect to create a new class of empowered consumers who are willing to share their personal data with marketers in exchange for convenience, a personalized experience, and value. All sounds straightforward, right?

Management 9

Management CIO Reputation Class 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Some of the displays are quite cool — I particularly like, for example, the "heatmap" showing where P&G''s products stand in their respective markets. P&G''s CIO Filippo Passerini calls it "getting beyond the what to the why and the how." Consumer goods Decision making Information & technology'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

The marketing head of an ambitious technology firm recently shared with me a vexing problem: Apple was one of their customers. As Michael Stephenson , a key leader in global customer programs at Oracle puts it, his firm has various business units that focus on specific industries. But it is not insoluble. Use LinkedIn.

Brand 8

Brand Stephenson PR Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

So she asked her CIO if he could test that software out. The CIO said that he could, but that he'd want sign-off from the corporate counsel first. They asked their CIO to set up a "key word/key phrase" filter to identify and track the language they didn't like. The CIO acquiesced. And legal said, "absolutely not.".

CIO 11

CIO Compliance Ethics Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

A global telecoms company recently decided to do what many companies are doing: figure out how to turn big data into big profits. 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. — and identify opportunities. and how they work together.

CIO 8

CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

It is all well and good — and true — to say that the role and mandate of the CIO are expanding. But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. CIOs especially need: an integrative mind.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 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 impact on the company''s IT organization has been significant. It has never before rolled out something at this speed.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. Software-based encryption stands at the heart of e-commerce and other online transactions, nationally and globally.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise. Intensity and immediacy of impact.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8