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Becoming a Network Linchpin

Coaching Tip

The corporate reason to collaborate is to improve decision making through knowledge management. Sources: CIO Magazine, February 1, 2011 and " Turning Heads: Six ingredients to becoming an employer of choice " by John G. Today, you and half a billion other people know that Facebook is a place to connect with friends online.

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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

All of this means that CIOs and centralized IT department staff no longer 'own' company data the way they did in the past; giving rise to new concerns about data integrity and security in a more distributed and anarchic company structure.

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Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Align knowledge management systems (or any system for that matter) with how people do work. ” Even companies a fraction of the size of HP need a good knowledge management system (KMS) to make sure that knowledge is available and accessible throughout the organization. .”

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. IT management Information & technology Operations' IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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

Harvard Business Review

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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5 Basic Needs of Virtual Workforces

Harvard Business Review

based CIOs, 30% said communication was their greatest remote management challenge, followed by productivity (22%) and technology (22%). Transparency: To help make your team members’ private knowledge public to the group, invest in knowledge management tools that are accessible and searchable by everyone in the company.

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