Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

Enterprise IT as we have known it is rapidly becoming obsolete, and the traditional role of the CIO is increasingly irrelevant. Therefore, the CIO''s role must shift from protecting and defending the status quo to embracing and extending new innovative capabilities. Of course, not all CIOs will embrace their new role.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

All of this means that CIOs and centralized IT department staff no longer 'own' company data the way they did in the past; giving rise to new concerns about data integrity and security in a more distributed and anarchic company structure.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

But while CMOs “are key drivers of digital-based growth for most organizations, many are not in the habit of working with the CIO, and are certainly not in the habit of working with the security department.” But with CMOs and CIOs working together, this could just be the beginning. 1-Click and Amazon Prime are two examples.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. Servant Leaders Build Up, Power Leaders Tear Down. Servant Leadership Review: Battle Los Angeles Movie. Introducing the Modern Servant Leader Logo. What Does Your Twitter Follower Ratio Say About You? Sometimes You Must be a Nuisance. Is Your Toxic Leader Like Pornography?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

More humbly, incompatible communications networks and a less-than-proactive IT department drove a company''s supply chain and procurement teams to use LinkedIns, private Tweets and cut-and-paste Sharepoints to quickly coordinate go-to-market product changes with key vendors. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

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Media Power CIO Supply Chain 9

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. Here are examples of how firms in three industries are simplifying the purchase process, and the specific tactics they are using: An employee wellness benefits provider uses content marketing. Fast forward to today.

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B2B Travel CIO Benchmarking 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository. Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

Haim is certainly a tragic figure and there’s something to be said for what happens when success and power come before you know how to handle it. One of the things you often hear famous people talk about is the number of new “friends” they seem to cultivate once they increase their star power. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

Today''s IT leaders have known about the exponential growth of processing power, storage, and bandwidth, but like the frog, they didn''t notice the boiling point approaching because the change has happened over so many decades. This also means that the CTO and CIO need to collaborate more closely. That''s a huge shift.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Content marketing is a start, but articles and posts on social media don’t go deep enough. It’s time to flip the corporate university inside out, blending marketing with learning to create relationships beyond the transaction. In contrast, IBM’s program helped CIOs be better business leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. Marketers no longer live in an above-the-line world; instead, direct-response and pay-per-click advertising have entered the mix. Trends need not be domestic.

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Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

But there''s a catch for CIOs and other tech-minded executives: to keep creating opportunities, companies must keep changing the experience or fall behind. Optimize marketing efforts to achieve influence at scale. Social media and marketing data can also be integrated with warranty data and post sales and service feedback.

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CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

With Kodak balancing on the precipice , a classic case study on the company offers powerful lessons that still resonate 20 years after it was written. The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. Today corporations are said to be more enlightened.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., solar and home batteries) for businesses to consider.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

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CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 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. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

It is consumers that have made Africa the fastest growing mobile market in the world. But so far they've concentrated their marketing power at consumers, and invested in selling mainly broadband-related products to the corporate sector. The market is completely open. The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market. Customers enjoy the benefit of new features sooner.

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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. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

We do not know to what extent this approach was replicated within the bank and cannot, therefore, say whether it was applied in the CIO unit that incurred the recent trading losses. A number of executives in the Chief Investment Office (CIO), where the loss was incurred, left the bank soon after the loss had been revealed.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Ushered in by the onslaught of mobility, social media, and online commerce, the rampant consumerization of IT is creating a power shift from associate to shopper. For retailers, the future of shopping is here and many are scrambling just to keep up. Focusing on the online channel alone means changing your competitor set to Amazon.

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Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

The marketing head of an ambitious technology firm recently shared with me a vexing problem: Apple was one of their customers. Just because a salesman says he needs a reference from Boeing to close a deal doesn''t mean that he really does, or that some lesser known brand might not furnish a more powerful proof point. Use LinkedIn.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is a huge divergence from the traditional norm for chief roles, but the CE is a necessary position of power to ensure that a company innovates. The Chief Entrepreneur is an executive as powerful as the CEO, with clear leadership over radical innovation within the company. But how do you hire for the role? Where do you look?

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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"? While leaders in most corporate functions naturally try to absorb and demonstrate power, HR diffuses responsibility toward its internal customers because of some major misunderstandings.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This significant breakthrough in the organization’s operating model and value network facilitates the achievement of growth in a new market, disrupting the entrenched players. The rules for smoothing the turbulence of day-to-day operations are few but powerful: Do less. Disruptive Innovation. Initiate fewer projects.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

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. So, after much debate and back-and-forth, I made the call to go to market with the product as is. Big mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

I call this phenomenon “executive brownout” and the details of El-Erian’s departure (not to mention more recent reporting on the conduct of his co-CIO Bill Gross, who has also since resigned) only confirmed my opinion that he was very likely suffering from it.

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Dr. Dieter Haban, CIO of Daimler Trucks North America, offers Daimler Trucks’s Detroit Virtual Technician as a good example. Beyond individual products, companies have been harnessing the power of platforms to connect buyers and sellers (e.g., Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Supply Chain Health Care Globalization Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

So she asked her CIO if he could test that software out. The CIO said that he could, but that he'd want sign-off from the corporate counsel first. They asked their CIO to set up a "key word/key phrase" filter to identify and track the language they didn't like. The CIO acquiesced. And legal said, "absolutely not.".

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CIO Compliance Ethics Policies 11

Women on Business

DECEMBER 1, 2011

With the stock market tumbling in 2008, much of their pension funds have been underfunded for years and the pressure to work more quickly and for no increase in compensation and sometimes lack of benefits is causing her great frustration. He staged several unions and six million workers to strike from AFL-CIO in 2005. in Seattle.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Consumerization, in this context, is not the dirty word of consumption; rather, it refers to power of choice and autonomy of control. I’m in the middle of this enterprise-to-consumer shift at Blackboard , where we’ve had extraordinary success in the education-technology space by selling features to administrators or CIOs.

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Software Supply Chain B2C Education 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2012

This situation is only more complicated in a tough job market. Regardless of the state of the job market, you should always negotiate. When you don't have alternatives — either other offers or a current job — you have a lot less power, McGinn acknowledges. "So Then she sought the advice of the company's CIO, Ted*. "I

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COO How To Proposal Henderson 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation. Advancement.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The good news is that you can harness the power of platforms and network effects without turning yourself completely inside out. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. So what’s a legacy company to do? The business press tends to focus on “pure-play” platforms like Facebook, eBay, and PayPal.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

CSO, CFO, CIO, IT, Ops (Practice Leaders): Typically, these decision makers run cost centers as opposed to generating revenue. Sales, Marketing, GMs, Product (Business Leaders): These decision makers are directly involved in generating revenue and they are judged based on the numbers. Sales Entrepreneurship Negotiations'

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