Innovation Excellence

MARCH 14, 2016

In the past twelve months or even more, I think there have been some exceptional reports and thinking coming out of Deliotte’s group, from its dedicated practice centers, their University Press and the Deliotte Consulting LLP, mostly from the US practice. Continue reading →

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CIO Consultative Report Chief Information Officer 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But what if someone could help 50 salespeople learn how to think and plan the way he did with the CIO? When they identify the desired business result(s) first, they can then identify the tasks necessary to achieve them. And while a single large deal is great for that salesperson, there’s nothing radical about such an isolated example.

CIO 76

CIO Guidelines Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 76

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. Consequently, the role of the CIO will evolve. They tend to focus on the business side and external activities.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Those are the kinds of questions that CIOs get all the time. Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. Most CIOs don't like being cast in the role of corporate psychic, but there's nothing they can do about it.

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CIO Venture Capitalist Conference Chief Information Officer 15

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

You were the chief information officer of Maritime and Son?” I said CIO, not chief information officer. I was the clear insight officer, is what I was. For right now, though, Cam, I got something that’ll help both you and Mr. Farberacious here to become CIOs yourselves.”. It’s Cam.”.

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Chief Information Officer CIO Learning-by-Doing Fashion 40

CEO Insider

MAY 21, 2022

It’s 2022, and both blockchain technology and the digital assets that it enables are seemingly everywhere in the corporate world — a stark departure from crypto’s grassroots origins. Here a car company putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet, there a bank opening a branch in the Metaverse; here venture funds plowing money into Web3, there […].

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Venture Funding Execution Magazine Banking 142

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Here’s a question: where do you speak about strategy issues when you don’t know exactly what it is you want to say? Certainly not in the board room or at a company presentation. Probably not even in front of your senior leadership team or even in a one-to-one meeting with a key report. You’re supposed […].

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Magazine Leadership Report Strategy 135

CEO Insider

APRIL 29, 2023

CEOWORLD Magazine has announced the appointment of new members to its board of directors and executive council.

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Magazine Hotels CEO Execution 133

CEO Insider

JUNE 10, 2022

It’s been said that ‘managing by walking around does not translate into managing by emailing around’. That might be true – but it’s also not a bad thing. In my experience, a manager walking around meant someone checking up to make sure you were at your desk. Not helpfully asking if you were okay, more […].

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Magazine Management Chief Information Officer Information Technology 122

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 2, 2022

We could all use a confidence boost these days – especially with how fast life is moving around us. Think about the last compliment you got from a friend, colleague or even from the boss. How did it feel? Great, right? That’s exactly how I feel every time I connect with my leadership coach – […].

Career 119

Career Magazine Leadership Chief Information Officer 119

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2022

According to an October 2022 Zippia study, 26% of U.S. employees work remotely, and remote jobs make up 15% of all work opportunities. It also mentions that sales are one of the top industries for remote workers. As a sales manager or company owner, embracing the remote selling trend is imperative. While doing so, there […].

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Succession How To Magazine Trends 119

CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

There is nothing like escaping the winter of Melbourne, Australia, for the warmth and relaxation of Bali. The beaches, the rice terraces, the mountains, the beautifully kind people, the food, the vibe – there are so many reasons to make Bali your next holiday destination. But, what if you want more than a holiday? As […].

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Magazine Chief Information Officer Information Technology Human Resources 111

CEO Insider

JUNE 30, 2023

The acquisition minded executive is the norm in the business world. Most executives I’ve talked to are either actively seeking acquisitions or, to use their common turn of phrase, they’re “opportunistic.” In other words, if the right deal falls into their laps, they might be stirred into action.

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Company Magazine Execution Books 105

CEO Insider

MAY 26, 2023

This month I had my biannual chance to be a fly on the wall while Silicon Valley Investor Partners had a very candid, frank conversation with a group of Seed/A startups that had already raised sizable rounds during the “party” of 2021 funding.

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Magazine Chief Information Officer Company Information Technology 105

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). The CMO now has the ability to be more hands-on with the customer information that is typically reserved for the CIO's team.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, a survey just conducted by Accenture Interactive (see The CMO-CIO Disconnect ) points to a downright unhealthy relationship in many C-Suites which can do nothing but damage to firms. To begin to mend the CMO-CIO relationship, it''s important to understand the source of each side''s frustrations.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 12

CEO Insider

AUGUST 9, 2022

In reference to this, does anyone who has access to a computer or a reasonably recent mobile device really yearn for the “good old days?” Can most visualize making decisions on what to sell, who to sell stuff to and how best to do that without being immersed entirely in the wonderful world of research? […]. The post SOPHISTICATED RESEARCH?

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Magazine Reference Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 98

CEO Insider

MAY 6, 2022

An important part of designing your investment and retirement strategy is deciding exactly what your wealth goals are. You’ll want to determine how you plan to spend the money that you save or earn through investing later in life. Some individuals may seek to set higher wealth goals as they will want to continue to […].

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Goal How To Magazine Planning 98

CEO Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

The dust from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse is nearly settled, but as we look at the new landscape, we need to take a hard look at what can be learned from it.

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Crisis Management Crisis Learning Curve Magazine 98

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Blog Project Review Execution 89

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

For the past four years, Accenture has conducted an annual survey of chief marketing officers (CMOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) to understand the state of their collaboration. And 83 percent of CIOs say that they need to align and interact with Marketing. This is a 16-point jump over 2012.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

It is all well and good — and true — to say that the role and mandate of the CIO are expanding. But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Chief "Integration" Officer: Bringing together internal and external data and systems.

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CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 9

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. As chief information officer of my family, I had purchased two used 333 MHz iMac G3s with 160MB of RAM in Bondi blue for my children to play games on.

Technology 16

Technology CIO CFO TCO 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Information governance is not IT''s job. 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 explosive growth of information is accelerating.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 9

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. CIOs need to engage with the CEO's informal influencers to gain insights into the visibility of this topic in the C-suite.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

CEO Insider

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I write about high-performing groups and teams. Venturing into an article about travel is as much a departure for me as my recent trip to Mexico. My wife and I reacquainted with our favorite resort – Esperanza in Cabo San Lucas, part of the Auberge Resorts Collection.

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Magazine Travel Article Chief Information Officer 64

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Luke Skywalker, a salesperson for XYZ Technologies, is attending a trade show and happens to be in the elevator with Norman Bates, chief information officer at Wonderful Telecommunications. The problems are identified in brackets. Hello, Norman. How are you today [filler]? Do you have a moment to talk [filler]?

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CIO Chief Information Officer Outsourcing Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As technology expands the way that marketing is understood, led, and practiced, there are exciting new opportunities for Chief Marketing Officers and Chief Information Officers to drive growth by collaborating and transforming their organizations.

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Chief Information Officer CIO Marketing Webinar 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

More than just a drain or overlap in skills, organizational budgets have shifted rapidly away from IT, leaving the CIO scrambling to support legacy systems that are still necessary and costly to maintain. CIOs and CMOs must meet in the middle. In every revolution, there is a shift of power from one group of players to another.

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Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 14

CEO Insider

JUNE 18, 2023

In recent years, cherished US institutions have revealed toxic workplace cultures characterized by racism, bullying, misogyny, homophobia or a combination of all four, that is hard to fathom. It’s easy enough to write these instances off as extreme anomalies in the corporate world.

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Career Strategy Magazine Products 52

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2022

‘Tis the season for reflection – a time to learn, grow and appreciate all that’s good in this one precious life of ours. As I look back on the past year, it’s easy to point out where I could have done more, how I could have done better, or whether I served the people I […].

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Power Magazine Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

CEO Insider

JUNE 8, 2022

While moderating somewhat due to rising interest rates and other factors, the real-estate housing sector continues to generate record sales — particularly in certain pockets throughout the country, including cities in Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and California.

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Real Estate Brand Magazine Chief Information Officer 52

CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming. Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […].

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Magazine Marketing Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

CEO Insider

MAY 25, 2022

Changes are essential for our development, and even though every start may be scary initially, it should finally be welcomed and embraced, even in the cases where you were not the one who decided on this significant change, you need to think about how you can adjust to the new standards. When it comes to […].

Career 52

Career Magazine Chief Information Officer Development 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM).

Execution 16

Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In doing so, these more traditional companies are not only increasing their competitiveness but also making make themselves more attractive to a new generation of IT workers, their chief information officers say. “People in the Valley take a different approach to things,” Ralph Loura, the CIO of Clorox, told us.

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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Most importantly, the training can help leaders be much more effective in overseeing chief information officers (CIOs), and chief information-security officers (CISOs).

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Training CIO Chief Information Officer Information 14