Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage? Such propositions come from innovation.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Stay secure and boost innovation. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. Herewith, three items that should have a permanent place on any CIO''s "breaking the paradox" checklist.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The findings are sobering: almost half of CEOs view their CIOs as out of step with the business and about the same percentage think IT should be a commodity service, purchased as needed. I want to spend more of my time on continuous improvement and innovation. My view is that the CIO facing three dilemmas.

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CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Just look at what most do: They appoint a CIO and give him or her a budget and a mandate to get on with it! So what can a CIO be held responsible for? This raises the fundamental question as to whether a CIO can really be held accountable for something that will only emerge when their colleagues step up to the plate.

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CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. This will allow us to most effectively allocate resources to the most strategic and innovation-focused initiatives.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

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. Victorio M.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). One of the key challenges CMOs face is figuring out how to partner with other internal functions. Put Business Needs First, Infrastructure Second.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 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. How to get there is the next topic. --.

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CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Why Meetings Suck (Costs) & How to Reveal It. Innovation. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. Will You Like the View from Your Deathbed? America’s Struggle With Vacation and Paid Time Off. Speedboat or Sailboat Leadership: Which Do You Practice? Jon Williams. Mitch Cohen.

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Servant Leader Leadership Microfinance Discount 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Most CIOs will tell you that they have no shortage of ideas to invest in — the hard part is whittling down to the right ones. Push that a bit further and what most CIOs say is that those ideas are in the form of project requests from business partners. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Blogs can clearly be accretive, and will continue to add brand equity to those companies and individuals who grasp the value of social media and understand how to incorporate blogging into their social media efforts. 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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer. That''s a huge shift.

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CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. What’s not understood is how to do it. That’s not the purpose of Innovation Engineering.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. These workers bring different values on how to work, where to work, what to work on, when to work, and even why they work. Many CIOs are of course already well aware of all this.

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CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Over the last two years, we have been engaged in primary research with The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly known as the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global in an attempt to paint a picture of how the role of the CIO and the IT department is changing. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In particular, CIOs tell us that data scientists, security experts, and enterprise architects are hard to find. How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. Learning when and how to use Talent-as-a-Service requires practice as well as guidance from those experienced with the crowdsourcing platforms. ”

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Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). “They cared about how I was developing and growing in my career but also as a manager, leader, and communicator.” ”

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Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

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. Generating Top-Line Growth. Improving Operational Efficiency.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be. Case studies on companies that have failed to invest in IT innovations, and the resulting business impacts--usually disastrous--abound. Such changes aren't easy.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Digital experiences come in many guises: mobile apps, web sites, how-to videos on YouTube, LCD screens on products (think of exercise machines that track calories burned). But there''s a catch for CIOs and other tech-minded executives: to keep creating opportunities, companies must keep changing the experience or fall behind.

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CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Innovate more effectively? Executives allowed their technology team to acquire a lot of products, but no one understood what the advanced tools were supposed to accomplish or how to use them. Before starting any new data analysis initiative, ask: Is the goal to help improve business performance? Jumpstart process and cost efficiency?

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

But disruption also breeds cultural tensions — as the digital ambitions of the enterprise conflict with longtime operating objectives and create competing priorities that employees don’t know how to balance. The more tension employees feel, the more stressed they are and the worse their performance becomes.

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Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

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

JUNE 21, 2017

That means retailers must learn to compete head-on with Amazon in two fundamental capabilities: agile innovation and expense management. Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. To understand this strength, take a look at the sample of innovations in the table below.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

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. However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.".

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Dell innovation expert Glenn Wintrich has worked for years with businesses and cities, and here he is sharing his best practices on strategy to create Smart Cities. So really understanding how to sustain and fund solutions in creative ways is equally important. Those are the kind of savings for which every CIO is looking.

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Technology Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

So we have a fundamental dilemma: How must leaders align and transform their legacy business to take full advantage how people, information, and IT capabilities can interact in a rapidly changing, digital world? Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. How technology is changing the way we work.

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Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

As importantly, an effective cybersecurity framework has to overcome barriers to continued economic growth — creating an environment that protects and nurtures innovation. A growing number of corporate boards are demanding regular updates from CISOs or CIOs on their states of readiness. Certainly, the environment is complex.

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Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. Insight Center.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Read more from Accenture Strategy: How to Become a Future-Ready Business. How B2B Companies Can Grow with Ecosystem Orchestration. Company executives are recognizing this, with 84 percent of companies in the report agreeing the CIO should have a seat at the M&A table. Accenture Strategy research shows 87 percent of U.S.

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Technology Strategy Content Survey 8

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"? Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. If you want to conduct an employee survey, ask business stakeholders about its relevance and how to do it.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

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. In other words, opportunistically managing collective intelligence is not enough; smart leaderships need to rethink how to collectively manage collective intelligence.

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8