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Leadership in Cybersecurity

N2Growth Blog

Managing enterprise risk tolerance. Human resource leadership. Audit management & support. Security leaders are primarily reporting to the CIO. Cloud enabled solutions – SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. Policy & controls development with implementation. Communicating to executives and board members.

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More Training Won’t Reduce Your Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

Most importantly, the training can help leaders be much more effective in overseeing chief information officers (CIOs), and chief information-security officers (CISOs). Now, there are no links to click. Inconvenient? Don’t just share information; block it.

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Why the Entire C-Suite Needs to Use the Same Metrics for Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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Who’s Managing Your Company’s Network Effects?

Harvard Business Review

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. Network effects, not unlike risk management, transcend traditional enterprise functions and silos. How should organizations design and manage their networks of network effects?

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When Learning at Work Becomes Overwhelming

Harvard Business Review

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. The list goes on and on.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

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. Leadership risk: Psychology has found that "for most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150", and IT leaders are no exception.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. My father worked at IBM for 35 years.