CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […]. Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming.

Magazine 52

Magazine Marketing Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

CEO Insider

AUGUST 19, 2022

That’s because the strategic orchestration of technologies described in this book—conversational AI, hyperautomation, and intelligent automation—will do a lot more […]. I don’t want to scare you, but the status quo is a death sentence.

Magazine 119

Magazine Technology System Strategy 119

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. Many CIOs are of course already well aware of all this. Organizational DNA.

CIO 8

CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

There is nothing like escaping the winter of Melbourne, Australia, for the warmth and relaxation of Bali. The beaches, the rice terraces, the mountains, the beautifully kind people, the food, the vibe – there are so many reasons to make Bali your next holiday destination. But, what if you want more than a holiday? As […].

Magazine 112

Magazine Chief Information Officer Information Technology Human Resources 112

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

But if accounting once led to widespread computerization, marketing is leading today’s digital revolution. And it’s the marketing department that’s become the central repository. Marketing finds itself in the vanguard because it stands to gain the most from digitization. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 10

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. I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Generating Top-Line Growth. Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Infrastructure and substructure support the information, processes, applications, rules, and channels that are the face of corporate IT. Infrastructure largely determines the IT organization''s structure, its budgeting, how the corporation goes to market, its legacy, and its capacity to change. Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. We also engaged with CIOs across the globe in discussions about what they were experiencing and what changes were surprising or bewildering them.

CIO 8

CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer. IT management Information & technology'

Organization 8

Organization CIO Compliance CRM 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

But there''s a catch for CIOs and other tech-minded executives: to keep creating opportunities, companies must keep changing the experience or fall behind. Each generation of technologies raises customer expectations beyond the last. Optimize marketing efforts to achieve influence at scale. Legacy systems often prevent it.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

I believe, though, that it is at the enterprise level that mobile could truly become a game changer for Africa , enabling the building of massive fortunes, and perhaps even the much anticipated recycling of innovation from Africa to the West. It is consumers that have made Africa the fastest growing mobile market in the world.

CIO 15

CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. Cloud-based services are also now being bought directly by functions like HR and marketing, resulting in IT losing its control over technology purchase within the organization.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

CEO Insider

JUNE 8, 2022

While moderating somewhat due to rising interest rates and other factors, the real-estate housing sector continues to generate record sales — particularly in certain pockets throughout the country, including cities in Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and California.

Real Estate 52

Real Estate Brand Magazine Chief Information Officer 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., solar and home batteries) for businesses to consider.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Much as war is too important to be left to the generals, the business of network effects is too valuable to be entrusted to the CMOs and CIOs. But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points.

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. How could this be?, The Digital Disconnect.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Those of us who believe that managers make better decisions when key data are presented visually tend to get very excited about all the innovation going on in the graphical display of information. P&G''s CIO Filippo Passerini calls it "getting beyond the what to the why and the how." Income Data in Less Than a Minute.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain CIO Information Technology Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change. In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Content Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

Some retailers are responding with clever innovations. Creating this new intelligent store requires, at the very least, the CIO, the chief marketing officer, the SVP of store operations and the SVP of e-commerce to determine how to best engage with increasingly digital-savvy, data-driven shoppers.

Retail 15

Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. The technology sector — software, hardware, telecommunications and related services — is a commercial powerhouse.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Software Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Innovation in structural systems. Innovation in mechanical and electrical systems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8