Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. However, the policy, in the telecom''s case, had unintended consequences.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

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. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

I believe, though, that it is at the enterprise level that mobile could truly become a game changer for Africa , enabling the building of massive fortunes, and perhaps even the much anticipated recycling of innovation from Africa to the West. Is its use governed by company-level policies? The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy.

CIO 15

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions. The CUO would also hire, train, and lead a cross-functional team responsible for creating energy policies and procedures that are aligned with the organization’s goals.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 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"? 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"? Im sick about it. I doubt it. Im sick about it.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Michael Cuthrell.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2011

Here is another excellent article featured online by the Drucker Exchange (DX) within the Drucker Institute at Claremont Business University.

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Drucker Video Newsletter Resources 95

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.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. Whether you’re a CEO, CIO, CISO, or board member, you can and should make your voice heard for stronger security policies.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

As a result, in recent years, innovative ideas have been stifled and entire industries have fallen into the death spiral of cost/price cutting commoditization. Instead of risk = bad, leaders need to understand that today, calculated risk = innovation, meeting marketplace demands, leapfrogging competition and creating true profit.

Dunning 8

Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

They were afraid to innovate, and they got away from being a real labor movement to being business unions administering contracts. But increasingly unions today understand that and are innovating. We aren’t going to get fundamental social change without a revitalization of an innovative labor movement. This is new.

Globalization 8

Globalization CIO Rogers Influence 8