Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

High, president of the digital business advisory firm Metis Strategy , advises numerous companies and executives on how to compete in the digital era. As we are a site dedicated to leaders and transformation, I would love you to tell us more about strategic adaptability and strategic nimbleness: how to develop and achieve it.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 10, 2022

According to Gartner , 46% of CIOs feel that culture is the most significant barrier to the success of their change plans… and it is the gap in understanding between C-suite and entry-level employees that contributes to lack of their commitment to changed behaviors. That willingness is seldom inspired by command-and-control management.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This edition features insights on the softer aspects of leading others and why they are so important and on how streams are changing the way we lead and learn. The Philosophy of Management. This note sums up the underlying philosophy of management and leadership. The key however is to know, how to earn these things.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 10, 2012

CIO Insight recently published my presentation highlighting 10 questions that can be used for leapfrogging mindsets to foster innovation: 1. Have you ever looked at the data you managed and asked why it matters?”. To view the original online presentation on the CIO Insight website, click here. Accentuate the Positive.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The enterprise architecture should manage changes in the architecture, but input by other employees should be appreciated. This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. And example of a mode 2 process is employee skills management. Additionally, mode 2 requires agility.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 23, 2017

Create policies for how to handle key hiring and managerial issues, such as whether new remote workers will be subject to a trial period. CIO contributor Jonathan Hassell says the foundation of a good BYOD policy is defining which devices are permitted. Set up Your Communications and Project Management Platforms.

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ReImagine Work

JULY 7, 2016

True professionals know how to avoid that, in sometimes counter-intuitive ways. Try one of these approaches and see how it improves your productivity and performance. You’ll have to decide how to make use of them to your benefit in your unique work culture. Find a way to manage your FOMO. Manage work while not working.

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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 Software engineers, developers, and programmers must be viewed as the artists of this generation. * * *.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. Let’s look at how that might happen and how to prevent it. That is patch management—a relatively straightforward process, 10 or 20 years ago.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Along with the transition, the college had implemented an enterprise resource management system to automate many processes that had previously been done on paper, spreadsheets, or staff members’ tools of choice. To assist with communication to the department leaders, we identified how the BPI initiative satisfied their values and interests.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2012

This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC lays out the benefits of big data and predictive analytics, provides tips on how to get started, and shares the remarkable results that businesses have achieved by marrying these two powerhouses. And a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers. Are You Listening?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time. Most CIOs don't like being cast in the role of corporate psychic, but there's nothing they can do about it. So here's some advice on how to make the best of this role and do a better job of seeing the future. Better still, they should do this while overseas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. We are in the midst of a computing renaissance, when all CIOs will need to raise their game and master this same set of practices.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

In that sense, you might think Ben Fried , Google''s CIO, has one of the toughest jobs in existence. On the other hand, few CIOs can boast a company culture as supportive of technology. Tell me about your role at Google, and what your purview as CIO includes. And that''s the thing that CIOs face right now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. The Rise of the CIO. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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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. Talent management is critically important. So the good news is it represents more opportunity for others — people who want to be CIOs someday.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

IT is not something that can be managed from a box on the organizational chart. 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? What is clear is that they are not the sole responsibility of the CIO. Technology?

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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. It requires that IT staff — and our customers — are continuously learning.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely. How do you grow your direct reports, your staff, and your organization through motivation? How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

But it should be the CIO''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. They must be identified and addressed, and information management is a huge part of this.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

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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. The nature of the workforce and management is shifting.

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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. To do that, both executives will need to change how they work?

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

B2C companies invest millions to understand the various personas, segments, demographics, and geographical nuances to help them determine how to position and manage their brands to appeal to the faceless masses. Yes, I’m a Coke advocate. In the retail category (e.g.,

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Why Meetings Suck (Costs) & How to Reveal It. Task Prioritization and Time Management – John Maxwell Style. Management. Project Management. Time Management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. Managers provide coaching to improve, not reporting to inspect.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Consider this: a recent survey conducted by NFI Research showed more than two-thirds of senior executives and managers said they believed their organizations would be more productive if “personal discussion” was used to disseminate information. We choose to talk via text rather than chat via…well…chatting.

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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. Managing utilities has also become more complex as the energy landscape has evolved. At best, it can manage costs.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Unfortunately, the challenge for leaders is that there is no formal management theory for how to build, leverage, and measure the level of passion in your employees. How technology is changing the way we work. Look at how much energy they have and how much they care, and this is just an internal event.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

It’s especially difficult if you’re not the one calling the shots (most managers don’t set their own compensation budgets). Whether it’s your decision or not, one thing is certain: it’s a critical part of a manager’s job to have frank and open discussions with employees about pay. Here’s how to master them. What the experts say.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There's a lesson in this for CIOs who are trying to make their budgets stretch ever further in these austere times. Development of small, low-cost, low-risk projects involving archived datasets can sometimes have a disproportionately high impact on the business — and on the CIO's reputation. But it's never too late to start.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. When we asked the managers what a better proportion might be, their answers were: 75% on day-to-day operations. Sustaining Innovation.

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