Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

These real-world vignettes highlight social media''s underappreciated and undervalued impact within and between organizations: the power to self-organize. Social media inside the enterprise and out lower the costs and increase the power of individuals to productively coalesce and coordinate on their own initiative.

Media 8

Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Infrastructures are under assault technically, functionally, and financially.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

When combined with powerful analytics, digital data allow marketers to segment their audience and create propensity models that can predict how and when to influence customers to buy. These skills are now reaching beyond data analysis to encompass information architecture, application development, and technology project management.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But investing in an internal communications strategy that leverages mobile app technology can play an integral role in reaching employees, connecting strategy with operations and helping companies thrive, according to new research by Staffbase. Reach and relevance have become the greatest weaknesses of internal communications.

Content 8

Content Middle Management Directory CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The history of enterprise technology has been fairly unforgiving to the people intended to use it. For the past half-century, most information technology models propagated two unassailable truths: that enterprise technology was purchased by a select few , and the technology was bought for the company. company. .”

CIO 8

CIO Information Technology Enterprise Architecture Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. The timetable for implementing these projects is often months, not years.

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Recent research conducted by IBM among global boardroom and C-suite executives in 28 countries found that better cybersecurity is among their top technology priorities. But with CMOs and CIOs working together, this could just be the beginning. Online security and customer intimacy go hand in hand.

Marketing 8

Marketing Customer Intimacy CIO Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. This shortfall resulted in its parent, Co-operative Group, ceding control of the bank to bondholders, including U.S. We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

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. How do they adopt an intelligent-store strategy that incorporates associates, shoppers, changing technology, new consumer behaviors, and the store itself? Big difference.

Retail 15

Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

For example, at Red Hat, where I serve as president and CEO, we have at least three associates who are so passionate about our company’s role in changing the world through open source technology that they have gotten a tattoo of “Shadowman,” the icon wearing a red fedora in our company logo. Insight Center. “Nothing.”

Company 8

Company How To CIO Chief Operating Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Organizations looking to create revenue from digital technology need a strategy that is more powerful than digital substitution.

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

But so far they've concentrated their marketing power at consumers, and invested in selling mainly broadband-related products to the corporate sector. Most African corporations, especially in the private sector, are only now in a position to think deeply about information technology (IT). The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy.

CIO 15

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Yet, although the power of analytics is common currency, it’s spoken of far more often than it’s practiced. The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

The core disruptive concept is that the “pipe” created by the cable MSOs (multiple system operators) no longer provides the sole gateway to consumers’ television screens. Think about messaging: We’ve relied on mobile phone operators (AT&T, Verizon, et al.) to send text messages. ” Data.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

They call it a "WeOrg" — and their story offers up a playbook for any organization looking to inject more freedom and self-regulation into its operations. That's the question Todd Pierce asked himself after years of experimenting with the full menu of leadership development models in his capacity as CIO of biotech giant Genentech.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

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.

Software 8

Software Supply Chain B2C Education 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

Automattic, owner of WordPress, has been able to scale up operations to nearly 300 people and more than 131M monthly website visitors — the 3rd highest on the Internet — with a purely distributed team. New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation.

Tools 8

Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 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. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Insight Center.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 million businesses and individuals worldwide, I believe the law weakens the economic power of encryption and subsequently the nation’s ability to create jobs. technology firms. I see a different threat: An economic one. jurisdiction.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8