Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The CIO paradox is a set of contradictions that lies at the heart of IT leadership. Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. As long as the mainframe systems aren''t broken, let''s not fix them.

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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

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 downplayed downside of this convenience is that there is usually no long-term profit from such ventures. The Rise of the CIO. But CIOs also need to not get caught up in the technology trap.

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

But it should be the CIO''s job. It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. We know this.

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CIO CFO Zero Based Budgeting Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

Running an IT department is hard enough under any circumstances, but imagine doing it at one of the world''s preeminent technology companies. Your customers aren''t haplessly trying to set up their voicemail; they''re experts in technology and expect it to work. Tell me about your role at Google, and what your purview as CIO includes.

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CIO How To Technology Directory 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

It wasn’t long ago and, yet, in technology terms, it’s almost an eternity — ride- or hotel-sharing companies didn’t exist yet and the first generation of social media platforms were just hitting the mainstream. Consumer technology and its potential went largely ignored in the enterprise.

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CIO Survey Strategic Planning Technology 12

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

By becoming an active member of the security team, rather than just a passive observer, the CFO, along with the CEO and the rest of the C-suite, can significantly reduce revenue leakage through a more focused and effective cyber security technology portfolio. And the most effective partnerships involve weekly cyber exposure reviews.

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CFO CIO Budgeting Long-term 9

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.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

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.

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. But as former Air Force CIO Bill Lord told me, updating IT doesn’t match an agency’s central mission in terms of priorities. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO.

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CIO Health Care Metrics Software 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.

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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.

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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 CIO CAPEX 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

That conviction leads to an exhaustive and time-consuming process by which the CMO's team might work with the CIO's team to specify and scope the precise insights to be pursued and the associated analytics to get them. Next, the organization launches a major IT project. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

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CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

But does it really make sense for all mission-driven organizations to measure their long-term impact on society? Brian Trelstad, Acumen's former CIO, is blunt about why not: it's complicated, expensive, and often impractical for early-stage enterprises. What do these organizations seek to measure?

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Long-term Due Diligence Metrics Cost-Benefit Analysis 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

DECEMBER 30, 2011

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? Mindfulness is one of the all-time most brilliant technologies for helping to alleviate human suffering and for bringing out our extraordinary potential as human beings.".

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Development Biotechnology CIO Short-term 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

That conviction leads to an exhaustive and time-consuming process by which the CMO's team might work with the CIO's team to specify and scope the precise insights to be pursued and the associated analytics to get them. Next, the organization launches a major IT project. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

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CIO Hedge Fashion Follow-up 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). Video game behemoth Electronic Arts (EA) has been actively exploring that question for the last several years.

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 13

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 this can lead to the accumulation of diverse IT assets that essentially define what the organization can and cannot do and the strategic options open to it in the short to medium term. 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

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

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.

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Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

But while your company may have a business or IT strategy that incorporates digital technology, an IT strategy does not equal a digital strategy. Because most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Organizations looking to create revenue from digital technology need a strategy that is more powerful than digital substitution.

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IT Strategy Strategy Class Offshoring 9

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2015

New technologies – and the proper use of old technologies – are a crucial part of this adaptation. In a 2014 Robert Half Technology survey of U.S.-based based CIOs, 30% said communication was their greatest remote management challenge, followed by productivity (22%) and technology (22%).

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Tools CIO Knowledge Management Travel 8

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.

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 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.

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