Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

CIOs who do great things in leading IT soon gain extra responsibilities. By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Some CIOs become CIO-Plus-COO or CIO-Plus-Head of Shared Services.

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CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Variations of this Big Data story line are being played out in executive offices around the world, with CMOs and CIOs in the thick of it. CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Over the last two years, we have been engaged in primary research with The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly known as the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global in an attempt to paint a picture of how the role of the CIO and the IT department is changing. CIOs today must adapt or risk being marginalized.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

We consistently heard that the CIO was autocratic and intimidating, and that his people were afraid to talk openly about mistakes. We could have coached the CIO about how to inquire into projects, and we could have suggested a more proactive approach for encouraging people to raise issues. This requires versatility.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Consultative Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

IT leaders have long embraced the idea that the role of the IT unit, and of enterprise IT systems, is to enable business. However, when we ask CIOs how their "enabling" is going, they consistently respond that sometimes it goes well; sometimes not so much. And other CIOs nodded in agreement. These are finite resources.

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CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. High-value functions such as infrastructure development and database administration were retained; others, including PCs, networks, and mainframes, were outsourced.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In particular, CIOs tell us that data scientists, security experts, and enterprise architects are hard to find. There is lots of evidence that teams like this have a very short on-ramp to value, though you need to manage us-and-them culture issues carefully. Managers lose the automatic right to “own” staff.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

There's a lesson in this for CIOs who are trying to make their budgets stretch ever further in these austere times. Development of small, low-cost, low-risk projects involving archived datasets can sometimes have a disproportionately high impact on the business — and on the CIO's reputation. Now Is a Good Time to Start.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Identity Access Management (IAM) vendors have been forced to consider brokering authentication for Active Directory because companies feel like they must stay on it as an internal authentication platform. Create a long-term flexible strategy. Create a long-term flexible strategy. The Metamorphosis of the CIO.

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Directory Company IAM CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

I keep thinking of the health-care IT professionals I’ve worked with for much of my career and how they must be dreading the long, rough road that lies ahead for them. Opportunities to develop new friendships and interdisciplinary collaboration. Change management' More control over their work environment and their future.

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Tips Health Care Budgeting CIO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

I call this phenomenon “executive brownout” and the details of El-Erian’s departure (not to mention more recent reporting on the conduct of his co-CIO Bill Gross, who has also since resigned) only confirmed my opinion that he was very likely suffering from it. Employee retention Motivating people Developing employees'

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CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Managers in the latter category don’t give tough feedback, shy away from going to bat for their teams, and give in too easily to demands. Working for a manager who is conflict-averse can have deleterious effects on your performance and your career. All the managers I’ve talked to say they’d welcome that level of initiative,” he says.

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Case Study Resources Long-term CIO 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. And we received a flood of big ideas and game-changing initiatives and experiments from management innovators in all kinds of organizations around the world. Story by Bjarte Bogsnes.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Investors might have a geographic focus: they may care more about developed or developing economies, or a particular country or community. Another example would be the Calvert Foundation’s Women Investing in Women Initiative , which allows individual investors to make loans to women in developing markets to access clean energy.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

All too often the functionality, user experience, logic, and workflow decisions of exactly how the application will work are made by the software vendor or app developer with no input from users. Corporate officers have legal responsibilities for protecting and safeguarding this data, which they cannot abdicate to the CIO and IT organization.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Either there''s a bottom-up communications problem where the messages aren''t connecting with their targets, or there''s a top-down problem where management isn''t clear on what its message is. For example, take an IT security firm targeting the CEOs, CIOs, and general counsels of small healthcare providers.

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Bottom-up Press Release Sample CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Doing this, in turn, will help them build more purposefully direct, longer term relationships with consumers and create more sustainable value. Above all, the goal cannot be one-time interaction, it should be meaningful long-term engagement and ideally opportunities for what Seth Godin, back in 2008, called “ Permission Marketing.”

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The four-story glass building designed by Norman Foster seamlessly integrates a long and diverse list of technical achievements — from the enormous solar panel array on the roof to hidden cable management mechanisms at the workstations — all according to Jobs’s uncompromising design standards. Photo courtesy of Apple.

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Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The cost of doing business — and especially the cost of local production — would go up, and budget-busting government spending increases would erode long-term business confidence despite short-term stimulus. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.

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