The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

The potential for such projects was illustrated by the UK government, whose Government Digital Service (GDS) suggests that around £1.7 None of these nations has made as much progress as Malta, Portugal, or Estonia, however, who have managed to make around 98% of government services available online. ” Encouraging change.

Innovation 98

Innovation Technology CIO Benchmarking 98

ReImagine Work

JANUARY 13, 2017

I asked for a manager. The manager began to explain what I was paying for. At the time I went to that weeklong workshop, I had been working on a project that was floundering. I worked with both my supervisor and his supervisor to influence the project leaders so that I could contribute effectively. Nothing was working.

Hotels 100

Hotels CIO Workshop Project 100

ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

How do you see that playing out given our project plan? As an HR manager it was not smart to lose my cool, for so many reasons. As a coach, manager and communicator, it’s important to keep track of the topics that raise your blood pressure. What result are you expecting given that choice? I was not interested in his side of it.

Management 100

Management Consultative Training Planning 100

ReImagine Work

JULY 7, 2016

Find a way to manage your FOMO. Manage work while not working. You’ve just created some goodwill and potentially have freed up an enormous amount of time to work on your projects to advance your goals. A version of this post originally ran on the CIO Online site on June 22, 2016 here. It’s simple, but not easy.

Tactics 100

Tactics Productivity Products CIO 100

ReImagine Work

MARCH 2, 2017

When I was an HR manager employees would talk in my office at performance appraisal time and ask me how to interpret this feedback from their bosses. Whether it’s in the moment or in a planned meeting you can ask: If we think about (task/activity/meeting/event/project), what do like about what I did on that?

CIO 100

CIO How To Review Performance Review 100

ReImagine Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Projects could be more successful and deliver more quickly if we treated people like human beings. 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. Fast forward several years.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Resources CIO Chemicals 100

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.

Bottom-up 97

Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 97

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. Even though one was in upper management and one was a vice-president, both revealed they, too, were sometimes flooded with skepticism.

CIO 150

CIO Transportation Information Technology Learning-by-Doing 150

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

It may seem an obscure data management distinction, but this shift toward collecting unstructured data – which is a large part of what Big Data is all about – is sending shock waves across traditional organizations. In short, there is a lot more to doing business in the Big Data world than simply collecting and analyzing more data.

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These executives played mission-critical roles in driving multi-million dollar projects that delivered massive change. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status.

CIO 15

CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 15

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.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Storytelling Strategic Planning 8

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Inverted Pyramid of Project Success. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Task Prioritization and Time Management – John Maxwell Style. Project Tailgaters & Brake Checkers. Management. Project Management.

Servant Leader 150

Servant Leader Leadership Microfinance Discount 150

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The corporate reason to collaborate is to improve decision making through knowledge management. Campos says company culture influences whether collaboration projects will succeed. Sources: CIO Magazine, February 1, 2011 and " Turning Heads: Six ingredients to becoming an employer of choice " by John G.

Social Capital 95

Social Capital CIO Knowledge Management Information Technology 95

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.

CIO 8

CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The findings are sobering: almost half of CEOs view their CIOs as out of step with the business and about the same percentage think IT should be a commodity service, purchased as needed. Talent management is critically important. So the good news is it represents more opportunity for others — people who want to be CIOs someday.

CIO 8

CIO Hamel Webinar Talent Management 8

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.

CEO 238

CEO Development Licensing Motivation 238

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

IT is not something that can be managed from a box on the organizational chart. Just look at what most do: They appoint a CIO and give him or her a budget and a mandate to get on with it! So what can a CIO be held responsible for? What is clear is that they are not the sole responsibility of the CIO. Technology?

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

But it should be the CIO''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. Because no one is managing the store. Information governance is not IT''s job. The explosive growth of information is accelerating.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, a survey just conducted by Accenture Interactive (see The CMO-CIO Disconnect ) points to a downright unhealthy relationship in many C-Suites which can do nothing but damage to firms. To begin to mend the CMO-CIO relationship, it''s important to understand the source of each side''s frustrations.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 8

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

When managers talk about social media the debate still seems to revolve around external uses of social technologies. This is typified by the kind of debate I participated in for Professional Manager back in February that asked whether social media was a waste of time.

CIO 76

CIO Media Participative Consensus 76

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

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Blog 89

Blog Project Review Execution 89

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects. Because this question is usually thought of as relating to technical architecture, it is generally considered by CEOs as a technical issue and the domain of the CIO.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 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.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

During one of my very first consulting assignments, a colleague and I interviewed direct reports of the Chief Information Officer of a chemical company about improving project execution. We consistently heard that the CIO was autocratic and intimidating, and that his people were afraid to talk openly about mistakes. Is that true?”

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

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. Agile projects have focused on standard, non-critical systems.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 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.

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO ROI CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

But when we at CEB ask CIOs who in IT is responsible for understanding and responding to these needs, we get an uncomfortable silence. For years, CIOs have sought a "seat at the table" by building strong links with senior business leaders. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer. IT management'

CIO 8

CIO Marketing Project Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Innovation is always infectious.

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

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.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

In most organizations, big data projects get their start when an executive becomes convinced that the company is missing out on opportunities in data. Next, the organization launches a major IT project. This triggers another iteration of the IT project. Perhaps a month's worth for one division for a certain subset of products.

CIO 15

CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. One project is Atomate , which allows for the creation of smart reminders and automatically performs actions based upon where users are, what they're doing, and the messages and information they receive from the web.

CIO 14

CIO System Project Call Center 14

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. IT management'

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

This shift blurs the lines of control as supply chain, customer relationship management, and other data systems become subordinate sources for information critical to marketing success. These skills are now reaching beyond data analysis to encompass information architecture, application development, and technology project management.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10