ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Projects could be more successful and deliver more quickly if we treated people like human beings. Indeed, the ability to intentionally address the social brain in the service of optimal performance will be a distinguishing leadership capability in the years ahead. Yet I really enjoyed working with people.

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Human Resources Resources CIO Chemicals 100

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

I had studied relentlessly and asked to be put on complex projects that drilled deep into the analytical side of my brain so I would be ready to work with Information Technology teams. 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.

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CIO Transportation Information Technology Learning-by-Doing 150

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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Old and Obsolete Infrastructure: Azeotrope, an aerospace firm in the Southeast, realized they were compromised when a number of clients complained of receiving invoices from Azeotrope that contained confidential information about their client’s orders and projects. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 101

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Some are: Financial – This is all-important - I can’t tell you how many executives I would watch sit in meeting and clearly see they had no idea what was in front of them on our financial projections. Know this area cold. Operational - Know how the organization works inside and out. Where are the dependencies? Unported License.

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CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

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. The lesson here for new CIOs, in Higher Ed or elsewhere, is to know your audience and know them well.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It was beset by destabilizing changes to leadership, a lack of appropriate capability, poor coordination, over-complexity, underdeveloped plans in continual flux, and poor budgeting. We continually find that most major transformation initiatives end up being managed as IT projects, with responsibility abdicated to the CIO.

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Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

Yet, here we are in 2013 with organizational leadership models that continue to deny the social nature of organizations and wallow in inertia. Our leadership practices remain authoritative. And, a paltry 38% reported that their organizations had effective leadership running the show.

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CIO Leadership Drucker Telecommunications 9

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.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Some of the key challenges: Companies don''t identify the very best ideas for investment because most capital allocation processes start with business partners'' existing ideas about projects to fund. 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.

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Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. At the same time, the trend also heightens the expectations of CIOs'' internal customers to deliver better solutions at greater speed. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

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Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology.

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CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

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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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Kim Stevenson , Intel''s CIO, summarizes the challenge well: "[IT functions have] gone through ERP, they''ve gone through BYO and they''ve gone through cloud, and they think they''ve done it all. It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. There is no time for complacency.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Over the last 10 years, a basic shift has occurred from an IT-deployment view of the world of big systems and even bigger projects toward a people-centric and user-oriented view of hardware, information, and human collaboration and networking. Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. Transforming legacy IT.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This includes most of the myriad Lean and Six Sigma continuous improvement projects that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness within an existing management and organizational structure. Initiate fewer projects. Get better at ending “zombie” projects, those efforts that have failed but no one wants to declare dead.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

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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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Executive directors are usually selected for their leadership qualities; they often have experience with generalized management or leadership experience rather than narrow expertise or technical acumen. The main reason for this lag is that the project horizon of most IT overhauls goes beyond executive tenures.

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Technology Zero Based Budgeting Banking CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Leadership teams must recognize that being successful will take courage, because once they embark on the journey, the insights from data analytics will often point to the need for decisions that could require a course correction.

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Microsoft, according to a former company executive , had developed a viable tablet computer more than a decade ago but failed to pre-empt Apple's smash hit because competing Microsoft divisions had conspired to kill the project. According to former CIO John Leggate : "People always had a good reason for meetings. Over-collaboration.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). The CEO ended up getting rid of the head of strategy, continuing to use the CIO to provide him with strategic advice, and hiring a strong but relatively junior analyst to provide support to the senior team.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Bogsnes and his team focused on two powerful levers: abolishing the traditional budget in favor of a more dynamic and distributed process, and scrapping the annual calendar for a more continuous and variable approach to setting time-horizons for a particular business or project.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

I’m 100% in favor of kindness and compassion in leadership. If you’re not getting the necessary resources for a project, you might say: “This is what we’re supposed to get done and unless we have more people dedicated to the project, we won’t be able to do it. If this sounds like your boss, your career may be at risk.

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Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. The CIO was unhappy about data integrity issues that arose from the integration of more than 20 discreet databases. Broadcast this message loud and clear from the CEO and sales leadership.

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CRM Project Succession CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. This is not a proof of concept — you should do these earlier as a way of identifying opportunities — but a banner project that can drive subsequent investments. Tie the integration to its application, so you get value early.

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Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. A charismatic CIO or Chief Digital Officer may make it even harder to be level-headed in those heady times. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

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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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But how should you organize your leadership team to best prepare for this coming disruption? Recently, with the evolution of IT and the internet, we saw the rise of CIOs to help companies organize their information. Some chief data officers and forward-thinking CIOs are effectively taking on this role.). Follow history.

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CIO Maturity Learning-by-Doing Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Execution risk: A wrong execution model or poor execution can make a project run too long and cost too much, leading to a total loss of focus and a reduction in value creation. It also comes from not adequately considering the organization''s energy, skill, and policies to accomplish the project.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

A true coach will represent and promote a salesperson's solution to his colleagues and, even better, to senior executive leadership. For example, let's assume the CIO who is making the $350,000 purchase of storage technology is your coach and he is a guide. A frenemy is someone who befriends you so that you think he is a supporter.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To expect anything as complex as this particular project to emerge fully functional on day one was the first (and perhaps most important) failure. And the New York Times lists “weak leadership” at Medicare as another complicating factor. What’s to be learned sorting through the wreckage? Setting irrational expectations.

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Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The research firm IDC and trade association CompTIA project the worldwide information technology sector to reach $3.8 Strong encryption sustains these thriving industries and defends technological leadership on the global stage. trillion this year. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.). billion in 2014 to $4.82 billion in 2019.

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Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. Unfortunately, the business outlook could change if ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to office and fulfills his pledges to cancel pension reform and budget constraints. Navy for the better part of a century.

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