Innovation Excellence

APRIL 28, 2016

Recently I had an opportunity to interview Chris Laping, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Red Robin restaurant chain about some of the challenges in achieving successful organizational change.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the leaders I interviewed for the new edition was Avon’s Chief Information Officer, Donagh Herlihy.    A lot of it is just when you bump into people and you know them, even though there are two levels of separation from you… Having a kind of richer data set in terms of informal feedback is very, very helpful.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Douglas Merrill, the former Chief Information Officer at Google reveals that one reason behind the free food is that it encourages Googlers to sit down, interact with others outside their department and share what they are working on, what problems they’ve encountered and what counsel they can give to others in the Googleplex.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

For the good of us all, I want to shorten the learning curve and lay out the three biggest things we learned […] The post 3 Things We Learned About Crisis Management from the Collapse of SVB appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. All rights reserved.

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HR Digest

JUNE 26, 2024

Instead of excessively relying on managers to help with clearing up some doubts about elements of the role, employees will soon be able to turn to the Target AI Store Companion instead. We know technology will continue to play an outsized role in the future of retail — for our team members, our guests, and our business.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a sales manager or company owner, embracing the remote selling trend is imperative. 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. While doing so, there […].

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When they identify the desired business result(s) first, they can then identify the tasks necessary to achieve them.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. 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. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These individuals — referred to as “SuperTech” leaders — are most likely to be known as chief information officers, but they also have broad responsibility for data and technology functions, and many also have operational responsibilities within the business.

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

We led the fight against terrorism, redesigned the higher education system in the country, formulated a five-year strategic plan for “Digital Tunisia,” created a “country chief information officer” role that reports directly to the Prime Minister. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. Chief "Infrastructure" Officers focus on cost reduction, and account for 65% to 70% of the overall IT budget. Most of this CIO persona's projects prioritize keeping the lights on and managing legacy environments.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

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. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Once a realm defined by its creative expression, trade shows, and glossy literature, marketing has instead become the place in the organization that pulls together all of the information necessary to find, sell to, and serve the customer effectively and efficiently. What form that partnership might (or could) take isn’t clear.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When we talk about “learning to love your job” or “managing yourself,” it’s often in the context of junior or midlevel roles. 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).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

A sales manager of a major services corporation, for example, may want to know which employees have the strongest relationships with executives at a client prior to visiting them and who best understands the subject of the meeting. For sales and business development, this is an invaluable tool.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

One of the approaches that firms have established to deal with data-driven disruption and change is to establish new management roles. However, there is still a lack of clarity about how different data-oriented roles (chief information officer, chief data officer, chief digital officer, chief analytics officer, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Chief information officers are expected to see deeply into the future and generate IT predictions that companies can build their strategies around. Will they integrate with current Business Intelligence systems? What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over my 15 years of teaching a course on IT in health care, I've seen that for CIOs who are MDs, the skill of delivering difficult messages becomes part of their tool set for communicating effectively with senior management.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

There is one area where more training would pay off: for CEOs and other senior managers — the people who are least likely to take training or take it seriously. Forty percent of respondents to a BAE Systems survey of senior managers in various sectors said they lack understanding of their own company’s cybersecurity protocols.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

You could practically hear the Chief Marketing Officer''s bodies hitting the floor in March of last year when the research firm Gartner reported that by 2017, a Chief Marketing Office will be spending more on IT than the Chief Information Officer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

One consultant described the search for a chief information officer in these terms: “Whereas technical expertise was previously paramount, these competencies [being sought today] are more about leadership skills than technical ones.” Finally, C-level executives must be adept in receiving and synthesizing information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent article , I suggested that the role of the CIO needs to shift from Chief Information Officer to a Chief Innovation Officer, due to the massive, rapid, multiple technology-driven transformations that are occurring today. IT management' The Building Blocks of Successful IT.

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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). It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

So who''s responsible for information security in your company? But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. Unfortunately this rarely happens.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

If you’ve decided to move ahead, then the next step is to effectively build that role into the rest of the top management team. Chief Operating and Finance Officers side-step this issue given the broader power-base of their positions.). Have this negotiation as part of the new Chief Data Officer on-boarding.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. CIOs who belong to the executive management team can play the strategic role that''s key to success. As a member of executive management, a CIO can serve as both a utility and a strategic adviser to the business. Reporting structure.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

This gave ZF access to top-notch expertise in data analytics and the management of information systems. While we eventually found it useful to assign a particular person to manage relations with the rest of the company, we kept the whole lab involved in project selection as the number of people working in the lab grew.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

While the customer intelligence group was learning about customers'' emotions, Ron van Kemenade , the new chief information officer, was learning about ING''s IT organization. While Scrum has been employed primarily in software development, ING shows that it has broader management applications.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Conflict IT management Online marketing' Thus, even though both marketing and IT professionals say they want to be more collaborative, meaningful collaboration is unlikely to occur. If a little competitive rivalry gets them both to bring their best games to work, so be it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

That could mean illustrating the effects of a proposed customer management system with testimonials from actual customers, or describing how the data-sharing project you want to expand helped keep employees connected during a major outage. But first, he needed the approval of management. Overwhelm your audience with needless detail.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors. Innovation is always infectious.

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