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Exploit IT for Strategic Benefit

Harvard Business Review

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. IT Cannot Be Only the CIO''s Responsibility.

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated. Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs.

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Using IoT Data to Understand How Your Products Perform

Harvard Business Review

Operations in a Connected World. The CIO of HP Inc., Of all the technologies that companies have implemented in the last 50 years, the IoT may face the greatest organizational resistance. But for many companies, such truth often comes too late – after customers have decided to find another supplier. Insight Center.

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Why Apple’s New HQ Is Nothing Like the Rest of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

Old concrete parking lots gave way to new green landscapes and a wooded preserve populated with 9,000 indigenous California trees, including ornamental and fruit trees, selected to resist drought and the threat of future climate change. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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Improve Decision-Making With Help From the Crowd

Harvard Business Review

Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. It will surely meet resistance. Decision making Operations' Over 1,000 IBMers participated from 30 countries, applying to get part of the seed fund of $300,000.