Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

As the drive toward increased digitization continues, enterprises have to get a handle on this total digitization — and corporate CIOs have to step up to the challenge. At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. CIOs Must Lead Outside of IT.

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CIO Organization Committee CTO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2013

Most CIOs will tell you that they have no shortage of ideas to invest in — the hard part is whittling down to the right ones. Push that a bit further and what most CIOs say is that those ideas are in the form of project requests from business partners. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Expand First, Filter Second.

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CIO Innovation ROI CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. While it is a model that many organizations have yet to embrace, make sure that yours makes the shift. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. A Board Director''s Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right. IT management'

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Organization CTO Analysis CIO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Kim Stevenson , Intel''s CIO, summarizes the challenge well: "[IT functions have] gone through ERP, they''ve gone through BYO and they''ve gone through cloud, and they think they''ve done it all. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. There is no time for complacency.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

This is not a CTO role or a role that reports to the CEO. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO. The Chief Entrepreneur will be responsible for managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs who experiment with new business models and value propositions.

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Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Now that IT is essential to the execution of nearly every job, as we move into the future, managing IT will be an even bigger part of your job. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

“It’s easier to understand the consequences of a change if you’re making lots of little steps,” observes Bryan Stevenson, CIO of on-demand software company Catalant. Because software code is released in smaller batches, it is easier to identify the source of any problems. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. That means not just finding serendipity in the business, but examining your own shop for new value that can''t be found in lines of code per day or the speed of a call center response. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

It’s critical to make sure that the CIO, CTO, CMO, CDO, and other functional leaders do not work at cross-purposes as the company focuses on deeper, more direct relationships with its customers. But the functions overlap more and more. Job definition, communication, and a focus on synergy are a requirement across the C-suite.

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

These three change accelerators are what lie behind today''s avalanche of business transformation, and they are directly affecting the roles of CIO and CTO. And, just as the CIO''s role needs to change, so too does the CTO''s—from Chief Technology Officer to Chief Transformation Officer.

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CTO CIO Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

He told me about the days, decades ago, when he first ran into a new breed of executive and thought, “What the heck is a CIO?” ” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. Leadership overcoming a "fear to fail" by broadly balancing all risks enabling ground breaking innovations resulting in business growth, customer preference, industry recognition and awards. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 10