The Horizons Tracker
JULY 23, 2019
If business unit heads are bought into the importance of working with startups, then it’s much more likely to integrate their technology into the workflow of their unit. Involve a sponsor from the parent company’s executive committee in decision making. Ensure there is an independent cost center.
The Horizons Tracker
OCTOBER 1, 2020
If business unit heads are bought into the importance of working with startups, then it’s much more likely to integrate their technology into the workflow of their unit. Involve a sponsor from the parent company’s executive committee in decision making. Ensure there is an independent cost center.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 16, 2014
Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. These questions will confront executives within and outside IT for the remainder of the decade as corporate governance extends to IT expenditures. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.". How do we change this?
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 12, 2011
It helps students see that Kodak did not understand or invest in the digital technologies that were to sweep away its business, a failure usually attributed to incumbent executive myopia. It's conceivable that IT's views could have saved the company, had the culture been different and had executive management been willing to listen.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
But functions as they exist in many companies, without a clear link to distinctive capabilities, tend to drive incoherence and widen the strategy-to-execution gap. The functional model of organizations is an important reason why so many companies struggle with the gap between strategy and execution. Strategy & Execution Book.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. Over the last decade, most companies’ digital agendas have focused largely on technology — moving to cloud-based software, modernizing IT infrastructures, adding digital channels, and digitizing business processes.
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