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. 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. hedge funds.

Banking 9

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

Companies can execute major process improvements to reduce risk and allow organizational learning by breaking projects down into a series of small, reversible experiments. But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology.

Technology 14

Technology Software CIO Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Over the last 10 years, a basic shift has occurred from an IT-deployment view of the world of big systems and even bigger projects toward a people-centric and user-oriented view of hardware, information, and human collaboration and networking. Clearly, business managers and CIOs are lagging. How technology is changing the way we work.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Maturity Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as new technologies take hold. The LEF is DXC Technology’s commercial think tank.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Incubator Content 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. Finally, even large projects can be broken up into what a banking client of mine calls "human bites."

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 16

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. I’m Angelia Herrin, editor for special projects and research at HBR. Download this podcast. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host.

Agility 8

Agility Content CIO Banking 8

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 9

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. That’s the bane of the existence of the CIO.

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. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 9

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

As evidence of marketing’s central role, just look at which department in your firm is commanding the fastest-growing share of the technology budget and attracting the lion’s share of data analysts and data scientists. CIOs and CMOs must meet in the middle. Information & technology Marketing' into digital-marketing efforts.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. It requires new modes of operation. There is no time for complacency.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

Marketing 10

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Many conversations about data and analytics (D&A) start by focusing on technology. A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building. Gartner estimates D&A projects falter 60% of the time. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 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

JUNE 16, 2016

And our own survey of 795 large companies (average revenue of $22 billion) in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America found average per-company spending on IoT initiatives — $86 million in 2015 — was projected to grow to $103 million by 2018. Operations in a Connected World. The CIO of HP Inc.,

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Every CIO I meet tells me that they are excited at the potential of analytics for their business. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” ” With Anderson’s help, Staples’ net profits grew more than tenfold over the next five years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This is a colossal mistake and is the downfall of many IT projects. While a vanilla version of a software application can be okay (and many corporations use standard versions of major vendors’ ERP software), any choice should be a business decision made by business managers for operational and strategic reasons.

Execution 8

Execution Hotels Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

P&G''s CIO Filippo Passerini calls it "getting beyond the what to the why and the how." If decision-makers have to spend too much time with the data figuring out what has happened in an important area of operations, they may never get to why it happened, or how to address the issue. Income Data in Less Than a Minute.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Innovation Engineering is validated in real-world practice, and has been the launch pad for more than $16 billion in growth and system improvement projects. Left brainers are critical to accomplishing the engineering, finance, production and operational work that’s required to make meaningful change happen. hypotheses and experiments.

Innovation 57

Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

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

AUGUST 7, 2017

And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. Sponsored by DXC Technology. This approach lets organizations aggregate best-of-breed technologies to develop cost-effective solutions that advance their goals. How the best companies get up to speed. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The grand vision at the heart of his last project is now being unveiled as Apple finalizes construction on Apple Park. The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. In other words, what is this project really about?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 based technology company that securely backs up and protects data for more than 1.5 Every single customer can trust us to encrypt all of their files with bank-grade technology before we back them up to our cloud servers. technology firms.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 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

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. Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects.

Software 10

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 10