Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2023

She’s also a corporate board member who has held CIO and other leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Hospira (now Pfizer) and General Electric. Think and behave like an active project manager of your career--calling your own plays an not watching your career from the sidelines.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The Philosophy of Management. This note sums up the underlying philosophy of management and leadership. That, according to me, is the #1 challenge of leadership today. As IT and business leaders, CIOs bear responsibility for finding ways to offer their people opportunities for learning and continual reinvention.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2016

CIOs become Aggregators of Business Capabilities : What does the CIO do, when there’s no Big IT to manage? senior leadership team–charged with identifying and aggregating the technological capabilities available in the marketplace for delivery into the enterprise.

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ReImagine Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This is from Lydia, my favorite coffee shop manager, who I visit on a daily basis. This post originally ran at CIO Online, Sept. She asks me this three to five times a week. One day the café was a little quiet, so I asked her what inspires her to asl. Let’s all listen closely to the role model leader at my coffee shop. 13, 2016.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Shawn Hunter The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership […].

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The Modern Servant Leader Servant Leadership & Technology. Leadership. September 20, 2011 Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership Intro. Servant Leadership Academic Programs & Education Opportunities. Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership. Leadership Lessons from a Cracked Pot.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 29, 2013

John Mattone is known among leaders of Fortune 500 companies as a cutting-edge thinker in the areas of leadership and talent management. Bob''s blog entries AgFirst Farm Credit Bank Albert Einstein AMACOM Babson College Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville CEO Magazine CIO magazine CLO Magazine Columbia University Fast Company FedEx Inc.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 11, 2014

CIO calls Bring Your Own Device the “new normal ,” and whether you approve or not, it’s happening. BlackBerry offers a mobile device management platform that gives management control over all employee devices, including the ability to lock and wipe them should they get lost or stolen.

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ReImagine Work

JULY 7, 2016

Find a way to manage your FOMO. Manage work while not working. A version of this post originally ran on the CIO Online site on June 22, 2016 here. See my column, Navigating the Workplace , at CIO online here. Women In Leadership (@WeAreWIL) June 24, 2016. Are they constantly checking, in meetings for instance?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% Tags: Catalyst Women , women in business , businesswomen , female executives , leadership , women on business No related posts, yet. which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year. Suggest a post using our contact form!

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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I had my master’s in HR and was acting as HR manager at an R&D lab, with over 500 constituents. Those in charge expected me to push more employment-related tasks to employees and managers. Manage those human resources in a way they can engage. A version of this post originally ran on the CIO online site on April 27, 2015.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. That is patch management—a relatively straightforward process, 10 or 20 years ago. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? and security penetration.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

What a sad commentary on the state of equity markets, since it’s the best way for an investor to manage the risk surrounding their investment. I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc. of their portfolio companies.

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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. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. We are in the midst of a computing renaissance, when all CIOs will need to raise their game and master this same set of practices.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

CIOs who do great things in leading IT soon gain extra responsibilities. By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Digital Leadership. Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. The post How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights. It’s not uncommon these days to see a company go from top performer to bankrupt. You miss a few weeks of news and everything changes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. The Rise of the CIO. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The enterprise architecture should manage changes in the architecture, but input by other employees should be appreciated. This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. And example of a mode 2 process is employee skills management. Additionally, mode 2 requires agility.

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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. It requires that IT staff — and our customers — are continuously learning.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

Even though one was in upper management and one was a vice-president, both revealed they, too, were sometimes flooded with skepticism. We are in mid-presentation when the CIO walks into the room, takes a seat right-up-front, and suddenly that train of thought derails. If you’ve ever been there, you have to know this. You are not alone.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely. EQ – Emotional Quotient (or Emotional Intelligence) This is where most C-Level executives fail. Unported License.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

There is a marked dissonance between CIOs and the C-suite — a fact that we uncovered in new research conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global. We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business.

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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. The nature of the workforce and management is shifting.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Consider this: a recent survey conducted by NFI Research showed more than two-thirds of senior executives and managers said they believed their organizations would be more productive if “personal discussion” was used to disseminate information. We choose to talk via text rather than chat via…well…chatting. The results? •

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 16, 2011

Only 13% of C-suite executives believe that line managers and middle managers are "chiefly responsible" for staff engagement. The report is based on a survey of 331 C-suite executives (CEO, CFO, CIO, etc.) He asks: Who truly influences levels of employee engagement more in your company--senior leaders or direct managers?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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Curious Cat

MAY 20, 2015

Toyota’s belief in a strong management system contrasts with the self worship many USA executives practice. In do so they adopt similar reckless management practices in order to justify taking so much. The difference between Toyota and so many other companies is obvious in many ways. million in the proposal for this year.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. It is a social function.

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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. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When we talk about “learning to love your job” or “managing yourself,” it’s often in the context of junior or midlevel roles. Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management. I F YOU’VE HAD to be on a plane in the last year or so, especially within the U.S.,

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

← Seymour Schulich delivers the goods on decision-making WestJet’s CEO step down: The first sign of the leadership apocalypse? I’ve noticed that the same can be said for leaders who find themselves in particularly “high influence” leadership roles. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome!

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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

JUNE 24, 2014

While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse. But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities.

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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. These are finite resources. Think speed not functionality.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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