Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. On the other hand, they are set up as cost centers and service bureaus, mandated to meet the needs of all their constituents as rapidly as possible under the ceiling of their budget.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. Finally, even large projects can be broken up into what a banking client of mine calls "human bites." Such projects may ultimately be significant in scale, but have been scoped into discrete units of delivery. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers. ” What else needs to change?

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Here’s why now is the time right to invest in renewable energy sources for the internet: Renewable energy can help reduce a cost center. Most credible projections expect the cost of renewable electricity to drop and many traditional sources of electricity to increase.

Energy 8

Energy Globalization Hedge Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In the past, marketing teams might have developed their own tools and databases or bought hardware and software without considering whether they had the know-how to maintain the systems — perhaps because IT was seen as a roadblock or didn’t move as fast as marketing thought they should. What do Marketing and IT have in common?

Marketing 8

Marketing Banking Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. Flextronics uses Workday to provide visibility into its global workforce of 200,000 employees, allowing it to move around talent and projects at a moment''s notice.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

For example, The Wall Street Journal might typically report something like the following: “Exxon Corporation has announced that it is moving forward with development of oil fields in Kazakhstan in order to meet the world’s demand for oil.” ” Fair enough: Exxon does want to find and sell more oil.

P&L 8

P&L Due Diligence CIO COO 8