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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

Holocaust and the 2008 Financial Crisis – Leadership Lessons in Resistance. Innovation. If You Seek Prestige, Please Don’t Try To Lead… Servant Leadership Profile: Lionel Logue. Leadership Lessons from a Cracked Pot. It’s the Size of the Service in the Leader That Matters. Jon Williams. Mitch Cohen. Paul Gillin.

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The Rise of the Digital CMO

Harvard Business Review

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Yesterday''s Linux hackers are now the chief architects and CIOs of the largest enterprises. Last year, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO''s technology budget will exceed the CIO''s. How could this be?,

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Innovate more effectively? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. According to KPMG’s 2016 CIO Survey , data analytics is the most in-demand technology skill for the second year running, but nearly 40% of IT leaders say they suffer from shortfalls in skills in this critical area.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Old concrete parking lots gave way to new green landscapes and a wooded preserve populated with 9,000 indigenous California trees, including ornamental and fruit trees, selected to resist drought and the threat of future climate change. Innovation in structural systems. Innovation in mechanical and electrical systems.

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Reinvent Your Sales Process While Still Hitting Your Numbers

Harvard Business Review

Adapt to the new: Keep innovating. The executives reporting to the CEO have doubled in the past three decades, mostly an increase in functional specialists like CIOs and CMOs, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration [ PDF ]. Innovate through experimentation. That’s why innovation is essential.

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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. It will surely meet resistance.