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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Tomorrow''s businesses will have a very different make-up, and the CIO must lead the charge in the face of these changes. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. The Rise of the CIO. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. While organizational culture issues took center-stage, the agency’s antiquated systems for personnel management, appointment booking, and medical histories probably made things worse. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO.

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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. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. IT management'

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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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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. What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being?

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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. I’m 100% in favor of kindness and compassion in leadership. Working for a manager who is conflict-averse can have deleterious effects on your performance and your career. What the Experts Say.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

If the answers are inconsistent, or don''t reflect leadership''s intended positioning strategy, that can indicate one of two issues. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

And the New York Times lists “weak leadership” at Medicare as another complicating factor. Managers must make it clear that they understand that excellent performance does not mean not making mistakes — it means learning quickly from mistakes and sharing the lessons widely. Playing the blame game.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. 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.

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