Next Level Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

With the possible exception of the car, there’s a pretty good chance you bought the product online after reading a lot of customer reviews. That idea comes from Donagh Herlihy who, when I interviewed him for the first edition of The Next Level back in 2005, was the CIO for Avon. Why was that the case?

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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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ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

I liked helping them get past that so they could feel confident and productive. In R&D, organization members developed things to turn into products, presumably so our company could sell them and make more money. A version of this post originally ran on the CIO online site on April 27, 2015.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

I recently keynoted at a leadership summit held by a venture capital firm, who in a brilliant move, brought together all their portfolio CEOs for two days of collaboration about what is, and is not working in this economy. I probed further to ask if they considered holding similar events for the CFOs, CIOs, CSOs, CTOs, CMOs, etc.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

How would your CFO or CIO handle this? We have become aware of vulnerabilities involving certain NETGEAR products and have issued a security advisory. We plan to release firmware updates that fix all vulnerabilities for all affected products that are within the security support period. An excerpt is below.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Digital Leadership. Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. The pandemic also required better methods of collaborating digitally, of monitoring the health and safety of our employees while also monitoring productivity of the operation. It’s not uncommon these days to see a company go from top performer to bankrupt.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. The bottom layer of the pyramid is related to governance and involves leadership and organizational structures that are fundamental for the attainment of primary organizational goals. Additionally, mode 2 requires agility.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. The Rise of the CIO.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

It is all well and good — and true — to say that the role and mandate of the CIO are expanding. But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Today''s CIOs must learn to balance all of these personas. CIOs especially need: an integrative mind. focus and vision.

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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. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. What got them to this position (IQ) is now failing them. Smile or Die! Happy Birthday IBM!

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Variations of this Big Data story line are being played out in executive offices around the world, with CMOs and CIOs in the thick of it. CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives.

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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. That seems simple enough, right? Do you see a pattern here?

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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

CEOs of the nation’s largest corporations received a 16% pay raise in 2014, and the pay gap between CEOs and the typical worker widened to 373-to-1, according to the latest data from the AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch. million in 2014, even as the average production and nonsupervisory worker earned only $36,000 in annual salary in 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Operational excellence, customer intimacy, or product leadership — successful companies excel in one dimension and perform well in the others. While some banks and insurers were known for their service or products, most have long focused on operating as efficiently as possible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Imagine learning product design from Apple.

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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

JULY 4, 2012

So here it goes: I challenge you to do a two-year, full-time stint in government leadership, and to do it before your 70th birthday. What I discovered, much to my shock, was that at least in this one case, a governor wanted to make hiring decisions based not on politics, but on leadership talent. You might be thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

As we''ve noted in our previous blog , senior business partners might not be that knowledgeable about what actually drives productivity on the front lines. Most CIOs will tell you that they have no shortage of ideas to invest in — the hard part is whittling down to the right ones. rapid new product roll-out).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Helping my smaller vendors grow and get established is in my interest," notes Patty Morrison , CIO of Cardinal Health — and the kind of dynamic customer advocate ideal for any technology firm. "So When she was CIO at Motorola, for example, the company had public positions on things like use of mobile devices and public safety.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. Most focused on cutting IT costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

As a consequence, CIOs work on go-to-market strategies as well as on acquiring and retaining new customers. Just recently, InfoWorld magazine pointed out that CIOs have split into two groups: those who are driving value and those who are still trapped inside the data center. I’m not responsible for ‘just’ IT,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Most importantly, the training can help leaders be much more effective in overseeing chief information officers (CIOs), and chief information-security officers (CISOs). Sophisticated businesses and enterprises are able to manage the security of their domain with a mix of security products. Now, there are no links to click.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. How and will the GE corporate culture incorporate the power to “informate” its products, services, and solutions for business customers to grow the bottom and top lines of the company globally for shareholders in the next five years? Transforming legacy IT.

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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.”.

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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.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

With not a little pride, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald and Filippo Passerini, his CIO, told Fortune Brainstorm conference attendees that digital investment had successfully transformed their company's transparency and agility. These technologies were making the world's biggest consumer products firm quicker, nimbler, and more responsive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

Who sells your products or services? And, as buyers increasingly expect to learn about products and services from their peers who are using them, companies are getting more creative at putting their happy customers in front of those buyers. This may seem like a silly question, the answer being of course, the sales & marketing team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

We collaborate daily, sometimes productively, sometimes not. Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance. In just a few years, social media has come to dominate many of our personal communications.

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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"? Take over responsibility and leadership. 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"?

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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. In other words, opportunistically managing collective intelligence is not enough; smart leaderships need to rethink how to collectively manage collective intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Being accessible and approachable is critical to effective leadership. For example, recently I was involved in a roundtable of CIOs from many of our customer companies where I was talking about leadership lessons (like this one) from my book, The Open Organization. Big mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Money is left on the table because managers are unwilling or unable to cross-sell their products and services, cross-pollinate resources to create new products, or share best practices to improve efficiency. According to former CIO John Leggate : "People always had a good reason for meetings. You're sharing best practices.

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