Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Senior executives struggle with burnout just like everyone else, and technology has made this issue more prevalent than ever. Leaders like Ellyn Shook, the chief leadership and human resources officer at Accenture, actually carry around “dumb phones,” which don’t have any apps and can’t send or receive email.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

In today’s high-velocity environment, Scott Klososky believes you need to understand how to guide your organization in the implementation and usage of technology—in short, how your organization “does” technology. [As The Velocity Manifesto details key actions you must take to gain an advantage in the digital age.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. The Great Recession forced these firms’ leaders to recognize technology’s role in driving value. As a consequence, CIOs work on go-to-market strategies as well as on acquiring and retaining new customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Before starting any new data analysis initiative, ask: Is the goal to help improve business performance?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Executives have begun to understand that to build a great business, companies need a larger goal, one that transcends the traditional bottom line. How technology is changing the way we work. I recall attending a conference for our European partners where we invited the CIO of a large industrial giant to give a keynote speech.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

If not, there are three things you should do to make sure that your salespeople understand and implement your strategy as you intended it, and that their actions are in line with your goals, not just the target they want to make. Make sure your salespeople pursue the right leads. When strategy shifts, make sure that sales shifts with it.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

But no one was sure what to cut and what to keep because the goals had not been clearly enough defined. 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. Call it a shotgun marriage, but it’s one that CMOs and CIOs both need to make work?especially

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The reality is that the landscape is littered with failed technology deployments. I recently spoke with the leadership team of a top Silicon Valley technology firm that had installed an internal enterprise collaboration platform for its employee engagement and collaboration efforts. Insight Center. The Future of Collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

A true coach will represent and promote a salesperson's solution to his colleagues and, even better, to senior executive leadership. For example, let's assume the CIO who is making the $350,000 purchase of storage technology is your coach and he is a guide. When this person becomes your coach, you will enjoy a unique advantage.

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