Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. Mode 1 is related to non-distinctive IT: products and services are not directly influenced by it. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

The long-time CIO of Google, Ben Fried, indicated that the way in which that company has maintained its entrepreneurial spirit despite growing into a behemoth has been its ability to attract and retain people who are comfortable with and even drive change, even if it means cannibalizing what has worked in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

For the past four years, Accenture has conducted an annual survey of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) to understand the state of their collaboration. And 83 percent of CIOs say that they need to align and interact with Marketing. (It Contrast this with 56 percent in 2012.)

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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. Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur.

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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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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

What are the market forces at work – are they playing fair or are they slowly (and possibly illegally) undermining your position. 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.

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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. The relationship, however, has often been a fractious one.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

It''s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. Many organizations look to IT to help innovate products, processes, and business models. As CIOs strive to provide more strategic value, scenarios can offer a tool to help facilitate business transformation. Scenarios and Innovation.

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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. As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. The New Role.

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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. A focus on customers.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

Big Data involves not just the structured data (customer name and details, products purchased, how much was spent and when, etc.) Big Data is Not Just More Data : That’s because the nature of the data we can now collect has changed.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Book Says Servant Leadership Critical for Marketing Leaders. Leadership as a Product Purhcased by Followers. Productivity. 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. Refuse to Compromise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Yet, the comments also reinforce Auld's opinions about how crazy and daunting the job market can be. Is Fear Driving Our Productivity? On August 8, the Labor Department reported that productivity had increased 1.6% Perhaps Beucke is right: “America’s productivity is rising on the backs of scared office workers.”.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The companies with the greatest value from IoT to date are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers. Of course, every company eventually gets the truth about how its products and services are performing for customers. What’s more, that percentage generally goes down the lower the price of a product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

” Nowadays, a company’s digital strategy practically drives the roadmap and goals of many departments, from marketing to sales to HR. Back in 2007, only 40% of CIOs were involved in strategic planning; now they’re regarded as some of the most integral members of the C-Suite. It used to be synonymous with “IT.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer. That''s a huge shift.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. If they work for a product company, it may be looking to services revenue for growth. Many CIOs are of course already well aware of all this. Organizational DNA.

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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

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. Adapting Product Marketing for IT. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer. This is giving rise to a schizophrenic IT organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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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

MAY 15, 2017

Spurred by an aging population, increases in chronic disease, and technological breakthroughs, the electronic medical device market is poised to reach an estimated $398 billion in 2017. In 2014 the International Organization for Standardization developed guidelines for the disclosure of potential vulnerabilities in products.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Digital experiences come in many guises: mobile apps, web sites, how-to videos on YouTube, LCD screens on products (think of exercise machines that track calories burned). 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Infrastructure largely determines the IT organization''s structure, its budgeting, how the corporation goes to market, its legacy, and its capacity to change. Digital demands move at the pace of the market, competition, and customer expectations rather than the upgrade cycles of IT vendors. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

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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. The New York Times and other traditional publishers are launching digital products tailored to the mobile web. Trends need not be domestic.

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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. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. Today, CIOs and CEOs of large companies are faced with an overwhelming demand for digital transformation and a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice.

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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. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

Who sells your products or services? This may seem like a silly question, the answer being of course, the sales & marketing team. 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.

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