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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

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Technology CIO Maturity Information 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

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as new technologies take hold. The LEF is DXC Technology’s commercial think tank.

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Technology Organization Incubator Content 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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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

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. It requires new modes of operation. There is no time for complacency.

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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.

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CIO ROI Agility Information 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.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But investing in an internal communications strategy that leverages mobile app technology can play an integral role in reaching employees, connecting strategy with operations and helping companies thrive, according to new research by Staffbase. Reach and relevance have become the greatest weaknesses of internal communications.

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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. Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

The world was globalizing, corporations expanding, and spreadsheets and paper would no longer suffice. As evidence of marketing’s central role, just look at which department in your firm is commanding the fastest-growing share of the technology budget and attracting the lion’s share of data analysts and data scientists.

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Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 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

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. 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

JULY 4, 2012

Most African corporations, especially in the private sector, are only now in a position to think deeply about information technology (IT). The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy. Intriguingly, the African IT manager has very little influence over the enterprise as a whole. What do we have here then?

CIO 14

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation.

Metrics 8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. But more than anything else, younger consumers like their technology. Connecting with a new generation of consumers won’t be easy or quick for these established companies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

They call it a "WeOrg" — and their story offers up a playbook for any organization looking to inject more freedom and self-regulation into its operations. How do you manage a vast, complex, globally-distributed organization to maximize coordination and independence, predictable high performance and game-changing innovation?

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Second, they must shore up their security policies, from both a technological and governance perspective. Even the World Economic Forum has recognized the need to rethink global standards of personal data and identity management, and recently published a report entitled " Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class.".

Management 9

Management CIO Reputation Class 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

P&G''s CIO Filippo Passerini calls it "getting beyond the what to the why and the how." If decision-makers have to spend too much time with the data figuring out what has happened in an important area of operations, they may never get to why it happened, or how to address the issue. Income Data in Less Than a Minute.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 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 timetable for implementing these projects is often months, not years. This is giving rise to a schizophrenic IT organization.

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Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

As the drive toward increased digitization continues, enterprises have to get a handle on this total digitization — and corporate CIOs have to step up to the challenge. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT.

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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

Sponsored by DXC Technology. This approach lets organizations aggregate best-of-breed technologies to develop cost-effective solutions that advance their goals. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. How the best companies get up to speed.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

According to data from Global Workplace Analytics, the number of remote employees in the United States has gone up by 79.7 Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team.

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Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8