Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

More than just a drain or overlap in skills, organizational budgets have shifted rapidly away from IT, leaving the CIO scrambling to support legacy systems that are still necessary and costly to maintain. CIOs and CMOs must meet in the middle. Information & technology Marketing' into digital-marketing efforts.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10

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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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 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.

CIO 8

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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. Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

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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Media Power CIO Supply Chain 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.”. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

Engineering 9

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.”. This cuts down the time tremendously.”

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

A similar transition happened several decades ago when the Director of IT evolved into the CIO role in order to strategically manage information technology resources for better business outcomes. At the end of the day, the CUO’s job is to reinvest that $100 billion of wasted utilities into productive economic output.

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Company Management CIO Energy 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.

CIO 15

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. Most importantly, the training can help leaders be much more effective in overseeing chief information officers (CIOs), and chief information-security officers (CISOs).

Training 9

Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Consider the approach to front line engagement taken at Martin Health System , a community healthcare system in Stuart, Florida, which implemented a new enterprise-wide system for managing patient records and core operations.

Technology 13

Technology Software CIO Information Technology 13

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. Information & technology Leadership Social media' Network effects make Google Google, Facebook Facebook, Twitter Twitter, Netflix Netflix and Pinterest Pinterest.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? But security?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

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. In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These should be rolling strategies that are flexible enough to consider the dynamics of the industries you will operate in. The CIO In Crisis: What You Told Us. The Metamorphosis of the CIO. IT management Information & technology' Do you really want to be the last one at the starting line?

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Directory Company IAM CIO 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. Transforming legacy IT.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

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

DECEMBER 1, 2015

While a vanilla version of a software application can be okay (and many corporations use standard versions of major vendors’ ERP software), any choice should be a business decision made by business managers for operational and strategic reasons. Operating this way today is a big no-no in the corporate world.

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Execution Hotels Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Creating this new intelligent store requires, at the very least, the CIO, the chief marketing officer, the SVP of store operations and the SVP of e-commerce to determine how to best engage with increasingly digital-savvy, data-driven shoppers. Focusing on the online channel alone means changing your competitor set to Amazon.

Retail 15

Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

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. With one caveat — they can’t get their hands on the data in the first place.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 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.

CIO 9

CIO Organization Committee CTO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company. company.

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CIO Information Technology Enterprise Architecture Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

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Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For example, Carbonite now operates several directly-owned or reseller-owned data centers deployed across Europe. The technology sector — software, hardware, telecommunications and related services — is a commercial powerhouse. That’s despite the significant measures my company and others have taken. jurisdiction.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

What do you do as CIO when people in your company start using a free cloud service that’s better than the similar service you deployed for them at great expense? Because it’s so difficult to monitor and regulate employees’ use of file-sharing sites and other cloud services, many CIOs simply ignore the whole issue.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Policies Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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