Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. Most innovation methods don’t actually result in innovative solutions.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

The long-time CIO of Google, Ben Fried, indicated that the way in which that company has maintained its entrepreneurial spirit despite growing into a behemoth has been its ability to attract and retain people who are comfortable with and even drive change, even if it means cannibalizing what has worked in the past.

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Company How To Core Competence Venture Capitalist 104

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

IT is an important subject for any organization and it becomes increasingly interwoven with business operations. The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. This approach is developed by Aloys Kregting, who was entitled as CIO of the year twice. Two Views on IT.

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Enterprise Architecture Process Decentralization Agility 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

However, a survey just conducted by Accenture Interactive (see The CMO-CIO Disconnect ) points to a downright unhealthy relationship in many C-Suites which can do nothing but damage to firms. To begin to mend the CMO-CIO relationship, it''s important to understand the source of each side''s frustrations.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Marketing Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Be strategic and operational. Stay secure and boost innovation. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past.

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CIO Technology Storytelling Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The findings are sobering: almost half of CEOs view their CIOs as out of step with the business and about the same percentage think IT should be a commodity service, purchased as needed. I want to spend more of my time on continuous improvement and innovation. My view is that the CIO facing three dilemmas.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Just look at what most do: They appoint a CIO and give him or her a budget and a mandate to get on with it! So what can a CIO be held responsible for? This raises the fundamental question as to whether a CIO can really be held accountable for something that will only emerge when their colleagues step up to the plate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. Such propositions come from innovation.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

There is a marked dissonance between CIOs and the C-suite — a fact that we uncovered in new research conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global. We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business.

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. These are core tenets that all CIOs need to hold close. This will allow us to most effectively allocate resources to the most strategic and innovation-focused initiatives.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist , CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that CEOs believe CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing. CEOs also tell us that CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go and how IT should support strategic goals. Barriers to entry have been destroyed.

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CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

To begin to answer these questions, we conducted some qualitative research, using in-depth interviews with about two dozen CIOs and senior IT managers whose organizations have evaluated or adopted cloud computing services. How can managers generate competitive advantage from their cloud investments? Agility is also a plus.

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Competitive Advantage Development CIO Survey 15

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. For Commonwealth Bank of Australia, convergence involved bringing together operations and IT into a new unit, Enterprise Services (ES), headed by the CIO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

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CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation. As Adam Davidson recently argued , "Today, the computer moves the cutting tool and the operator needs to know how to talk to the computer.".

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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. The notion of the CIO is still in its infancy. That is where the results are already visible.

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CIO Information Technology Bottom-up Policies 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 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Today''s top IT leaders have moved beyond ensuring operational efficiency. Many IT leaders are now at the forefront of business model enablement, organizational architecture, management practice, and innovation. Innovation webinar' Video Platform. Video Management. Video Solutions. Video Player.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

More than just a drain or overlap in skills, organizational budgets have shifted rapidly away from IT, leaving the CIO scrambling to support legacy systems that are still necessary and costly to maintain. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation. CIOs and CMOs must meet in the middle.

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Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Lead from the top.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Lead from the top.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 13

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.

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Retail Attrition CIO CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Insight Center.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 16

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 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.

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Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 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?" Improving Operational Efficiency.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

To do this, Royal Caribbean thought about every aspect of the ship and its operations from a guest's perspective. If you have to stand in line," explained Bill Martin, vice president and CIO, "the ship suddenly seems too big and the experience diminishes sharply.". That is the essence of a digital strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

Increasingly, business leaders are driving transformation projects in areas like digital marketing, multi-channel sales, and product-content and customer-information management, pushing the CIO and IT organization to respond in new, faster, and different ways. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

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Organization CIO Compliance CRM 9

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. IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

With time to plan, we knew we needed to engage the staff in thinking creatively about how best to reorganize IT operations to optimize available resources. I recently caught up with Keith Jennings, the current CIO, to see if some of the longer-term initiatives had achieved the intended results.

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Tips Health Care Budgeting CIO 14

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. How might Kickstarter-like innovation initiatives facilitate new conversations and collaborations between clients and employees?

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Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 9

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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