Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time. Most CIOs don't like being cast in the role of corporate psychic, but there's nothing they can do about it. As an alternative, CIOs can indulge in some low-risk reverse mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 19, 2022

Most modern organizations are run using systems and strategies that will seem almost comically outdated a few short years from now. I don’t want to scare you, but the status quo is a death sentence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. As Erik Brynjolfsson said, to succeed in the future, " We must reinvent our organizations and our whole economic system.". The Rise of the CIO. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. In working with these successful CIOs over the years, I have found that they all share a common set of practices, philosophies and approaches.

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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 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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. The lesson here for new CIOs, in Higher Ed or elsewhere, is to know your audience and know them well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Just look at what most do: They appoint a CIO and give him or her a budget and a mandate to get on with it! So what can a CIO be held responsible for? This raises the fundamental question as to whether a CIO can really be held accountable for something that will only emerge when their colleagues step up to the plate. Technology?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

But it should be the CIO''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. The time is ripe for CIOs to take a page from the CFOs'' playbook to ensure both accountability and responsibility for information creation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). In some instances, it may be necessary to align the CEO on a plan, but a united recommendation between the CMO and CIO has a better of chance of success.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Along with the transition, the college had implemented an enterprise resource management system to automate many processes that had previously been done on paper, spreadsheets, or staff members’ tools of choice. As is common, it was assumed that users would naturally eliminate redundant work as they started to use the new system.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. In the top layer Kregting referred to IT systems by which employees are supported. To apply and appropriate balance between centralization and decentralization, the information pyramid can be implemented.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I came to understand the reason for a phenomenon I had been aware of for years: Medical-center CIOs who are MDs tend to be much better at stating unpleasant truths about IT systems than nonmedical CIOs. Determine the CEO's grasp of the legacy-systems issue in order to make the business case for change.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Think about the Boeing Engineer evaluating a GE jet engine for a new airplane…a CIO evaluating a new Enterprise Resource Planning System software provider…or a CFO reviewing audit firms. . Domain knowledge — The B2B buyer has the expertise and experience in the offering being considered.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

In that sense, you might think Ben Fried , Google''s CIO, has one of the toughest jobs in existence. On the other hand, few CIOs can boast a company culture as supportive of technology. Tell me about your role at Google, and what your purview as CIO includes. And that''s the thing that CIOs face right now.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

On Friday, a major cyber attack hit health systems around the world. In Britain, where the attack affected hospital IT systems, doctors were unable to access patient records. Unfortunately, attacking hospital IT systems is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cyber vulnerabilities in the health care sector. acute and 35.5%

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

New technologies : The consistency and predictability of structured data is what gave rise to today’s centralized IT departments – running SQL/Relational Database Management Systems, and ERP and CRM software.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Skip Steward, Chief Improvement Office (CIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee is the latest guest on the Deming Podcast ( download the podcast ). as active participants in practicing the principles of Baptist Management System in their daily work. ” I reflect on Dr. Deming quite often.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

Just as a decade or so ago IT became so central to the functioning of a modern enterprise that it warranted a new executive position, with most companies now having a CIO in place to manage their IT needs. In the future, if not in the present, everyone will have a CSO on their boards.

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Curious Cat

MAY 20, 2015

Toyota’s belief in a strong management system contrasts with the self worship many USA executives practice. CEOs of the nation’s largest corporations received a 16% pay raise in 2014, and the pay gap between CEOs and the typical worker widened to 373-to-1, according to the latest data from the AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered. on others as well as myself.

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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

JUNE 24, 2014

IT systems need constant tweaking, updating, or replacing, or else they become an inefficient drag on the organization. While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

IT leaders have long embraced the idea that the role of the IT unit, and of enterprise IT systems, is to enable business. However, when we ask CIOs how their "enabling" is going, they consistently respond that sometimes it goes well; sometimes not so much. And other CIOs nodded in agreement. These are finite resources.

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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. Consequently, CIOs and business leaders with a technology focus face more cacophony and challenge than ever before. Many CIOs are of course already well aware of all this.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. system to delivering the product via logistics operations, to collecting the cash from customers. Filippo Passerini ’s leadership as President of P&G’s Global Business Services and CIO has been recognized as best-in-class in the industry. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Big Blue has been working on AI since the 1950s, when a researcher created a system that could play checkers at an expert level and "learned" as it went along. AI systems will, in effect, allow vehicles to act as "always on" mobile computer platforms, increasing the effectiveness and productivity of the mobile workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In the early 1990s, Kodak's IT function was focused on systems and internal services. The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. They're savvy about mobility, broadband internet, smartphone apps, and the value of a good CIO.

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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. While not as old and not yet as mature as cloud systems, it warrants a closer look.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Helping my smaller vendors grow and get established is in my interest," notes Patty Morrison , CIO of Cardinal Health — and the kind of dynamic customer advocate ideal for any technology firm. "So When she was CIO at Motorola, for example, the company had public positions on things like use of mobile devices and public safety.

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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. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community. The bottom left quadrant connotes building and maintenance work required for large systems from proprietary billing systems to legacy mainframe applications.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The more CEOs speak with system engineers and technical teams, the more comfortable they will be asking questions about the organization’s security.

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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. Transforming legacy IT.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

This shift blurs the lines of control as supply chain, customer relationship management, and other data systems become subordinate sources for information critical to marketing success. CIOs and CMOs must meet in the middle. Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization.

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