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. and how they work together.

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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.

Development 17

Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as new technologies take hold. To win the talent war, companies need to change.

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Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. Only a quarter of executives felt their CIO was performing above his or her peers.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

CIOs and CEOs of large enterprises are faced with an overwhelming demand to transform their IT enterprise services and with a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice. Today, CIOs and CEOs of large companies are faced with an overwhelming demand for digital transformation and a bewildering, often conflicting landscape of advice.

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Agility Content CIO Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

It helps students see that Kodak did not understand or invest in the digital technologies that were to sweep away its business, a failure usually attributed to incumbent executive myopia. The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak.

CIO 9

CIO Outsourcing Cost Center Film 9

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.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

If asked about cost savings, be ready to deliver your pitch on how you intend to reduce or eliminate capex spending, reduce personnel resources, move services to a pay by month model eliminating long term contracts and ultimately reduce your annual budget by a modest percentage year over year over a 3-5 year period of time.

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Directory Company IAM CIO 8

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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CIO How To Policies Document 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

IT professionals need to recognize and embrace the Serendipity Economy in order to better understand the impact of technology investments, improve employee engagement and drive business transformation. Technology investments work the same way. Serendipity into Performance. The measure of value requires external validation.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

One answer: the creation of cross-company virtual collaborative communities based on shared passion (whether around a specific technology or a particular role or even a business process). What if training and development programs unleashed human potential rather than packed people full of curricula, models, and competencies?

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 13

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. But no one yet is successfully leveraging consumer data and relationships across the digital-physical divide at scale, despite early experimentation with technology such as beacons.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g.,

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

The marketing head of an ambitious technology firm recently shared with me a vexing problem: Apple was one of their customers. These can lead to long term relationships in which advocacy naturally flows. "We''ll Let''s say you''re trying to recruit the CIO of a very large brand. Marquee brand executives are people, too.

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Brand Stephenson PR Reference 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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Execution Hotels Software System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees. (To

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Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8