Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Some are: Financial – This is all-important - I can’t tell you how many executives I would watch sit in meeting and clearly see they had no idea what was in front of them on our financial projections. Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. How To Pick Yourself Up After You Fail.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. 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 operate in a digital business ecosystem? The Rise of the CIO.

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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. Be strategic and operational. 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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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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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. If the package is damaged I assume my local grocer dropped it while putting it out on the shelf. Yes, I’m a Coke advocate.

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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. So the good news is it represents more opportunity for others — people who want to be CIOs someday. You absolutely are still responsible.

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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. Technology?

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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

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. The lesson here for new CIOs, in Higher Ed or elsewhere, is to know your audience and know them well.

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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. How to get there is the next topic. --.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

He went on to say that the insatiable demands of today’s operational turbulence were robbing him and his organization of ability to invest in the future. We reflected on this, and on the broader context we’ve seen in our work, and created four high-level buckets into which resources and money can be poured: Daily Operations.

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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. When I was the chief operating officer at Delta Air Lines, I remember once being asked, “What are you going to do about our morale? Share context.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Without building on the basis of a digital operating model, there is no way to ensure alignment among a company’s digital initiatives. Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I came to understand the reason for a phenomenon I had been aware of for years: Medical-center CIOs who are MDs tend to be much better at stating unpleasant truths about IT systems than nonmedical CIOs. CIOs need to engage with the CEO's informal influencers to gain insights into the visibility of this topic in the C-suite.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Other enterprises and their functions are looking to leverage technology to optimize and augment existing operations. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Every organization has a slightly different framework of expected experience, but I like to look at this through the lens of strategy and operations. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both. Likewise, I know numerous chief HR officers who have done tours in business, operations, HR, and elsewhere.

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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

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

JUNE 23, 2017

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. Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs.

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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. IT Cannot Be Only the CIO''s Responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Kim Stevenson , Intel''s CIO, summarizes the challenge well: "[IT functions have] gone through ERP, they''ve gone through BYO and they''ve gone through cloud, and they think they''ve done it all. It requires new modes of operation. They reduce duplication of efforts and skills, thus reducing operational costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community.

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

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out.

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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.”. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

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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.”. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

observed that technology had fundamentally changed how America''s special operations command managed its special forces warriors. The technologies of situational awareness put soldiers at the front lines — not the Generals in the command centers — in the best positions to decide how to best prosecute their missions.

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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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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 Younger generations will not operate like the current generation of leaders ….If

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

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