CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When it comes to leadership, it’s not just about what you do; it’s about how you inspire others to succeed. So, how do you know if your leadership approach is really working? Let’s explore six straightforward indicators that can help you gauge your effectiveness as a leader.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

He is also the finance chief for the healthcare segment, playing a dual role in furthering the reach of the company beyond neighborhood pharmacies towards the fast-growing areas of healthcare. “We We have a strong team with a track record of operational excellence and an unwavering commitment to the execution of our goals.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2025

Busting these myths is key to overcoming a culture of complacency and achieving results that matter. The nonprofit sector is filled with dedicated people and amazing programs. But too many nonprofits are held back by cultural restraints that inhibit their function and ability to scale.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Canadas top executives are increasingly worried about the future of their businesses, with a growing number acknowledging the need for major transformations to ensure long-term sustainability.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 6, 2025

We know that companies with strong diversity outperform their peer groups, but were not making progress at the rate youd expect. Spoiler alert and it is not because women lack the skills to lead companies!

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Magazine Diversity Skills Company 52

CEO Insider

JULY 15, 2024

Being a leader is both challenging and draining. To survive, all great leaders have “secrets” to keep them healthy, sharp, agile, in the move towards their best selves.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In the early days of 2006, Aer Arann had an incredibly committed staff and was an amazing place to work. We had grown very big, very quickly.

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Safe Harbor Magazine Stress Commitment 59

CEO Insider

JANUARY 10, 2025

Life science companies, traditionally focused on providers and payers, are rapidly shifting their priorities to engage directly with patients and consumers. Historically, pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech firms maintained limited interaction with end consumers.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

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CEO Insider

JULY 17, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize various industries, the role of CEOs, especially in midsize companies, is undergoing a profound transformation.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of high-profile CEO departures is sweeping through major companies. Boeing’s Dave Calhoun, who became well-known during the 737 Max crisis, is set to exit the company by the end of the year.

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CEO Company Magazine Crisis 52

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.

Company 15

Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

What resources do you have to get something fixed?" —Chief Operating Officer. He earned our trust so we were much more open with him." —Chief Information Officer. We are a big company, so there's always a tendency to go with the big players. Who are your proven big-time customers?

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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. cost of improving the operating systems; unfortunately, the new OS could not be loaded from the internal CD drive and required an external DVD player, which cost $120.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

And expecting marketers to operate as a shadow IT department is both expensive and presents significant data-governance and operational risks. Some companies are installing chief information officers to bridge the gap, while others haven’t yet decided what action to take.

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Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Believe me, this skill comes in handy in the chief information officer's line of work: CIOs often have to tell CEOs that the large portfolios of legacy applications driving corporate operations are bound to fail sooner or later and need to be replaced. CEOs don't want to hear that.

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System CEO CIO Chief Information Officer 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

and uncovers new customer insights; it then turns to operations to translate the insights into action.and hits a wall. The people in operations are too focused on fulfilling internal requests and service agreements to worry about customers, the ones that pay real money. IT management Marketing Operations' Analytics "!)

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Marketing Six Sigma Banking Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. 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 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition. Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. So who''s responsible for information security in your company? But security?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. One of the newest additions to the C-Suite is the Chief Data Officer. Chief Operating and Finance Officers side-step this issue given the broader power-base of their positions.).

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Incentives Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence Execution 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia.

Politics 14

Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Forty-five percent of marketing executives say they would prefer to enable marketing employees to operate data and content without IT intervention. For their part, IT executives believe marketers make promises they can''t keep and do not provide them with adequate information on business requirements.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 11

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. In that time, weve tracked dramatic changes in attitudes.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Survey 10

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.”

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Skills Consultative Ethics Chief Information Officer 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out. In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva.

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Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. Success stories of Big-Data-enabled innovation remain relatively few at this stage.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Sensitivity to operations. Close those gaps, keep them as healthy as possible,” says John Kravitz, its chief information officer.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In our Tech Pro Research survey of chief information officers, technology executives, and IT employees, 45% of respondents saw mobile devices as the weak spot in their company’s defenses. Android is a fragmented mobile operating system. Securing mobile devices is tricky.

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Chief Information Officer Wireless Download Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.” ” With Anderson’s help, Staples’ net profits grew more than tenfold over the next five years.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Inclusive design helps inform the concept of the urban digital nervous system (UDNS), which is a metaphor (first used by Bill Gates in 1999) for the systems that regulate a city’s operations and automate its core functions.

Content 8

Content Transportation Osborne Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

CFOs were the first functional chiefs to join, followed in the 1980s by Chief Strategy Officers (CSOs). The 1990s saw the appearance of Chief Information Officers, Chief Marketing Officers and others. Balance your inner cabinet.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. “We’re working on the problems that haven’t arrived yet,” says executive director Kyle Nel, who reports to the company’s chief information officer.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, I oversee four petabytes of data. The idea was presented to BIDMC’s senior-management operating council and then to the Board’s IT oversight committee. Is that “big data”?

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

So the grocer’s chief information officer replaced the list with a more detailed one of the top 10 items in local store groups. The new group is now attracting top customer analytics talent, in part because it operates and feels like more like a startup than a blue-chip corporation, right down to its office layout.

Retail 8

Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 11