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Sustainability: A Million-Dollar Opportunity for the CIO

December 14, 2011
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Print PDF The CIO is in a great position to lead sustainability initiatives at a corporation. Why? Because like information technology, corporations must weave sustainability into the fabric of the enterprise to generate the opportunities that companies like The Dow Chemical Company, SAP and Intel have orchestrated. Their successes are featured in: “Sustainability: Moving from Compliance to Leadership.” To generate revenue, Dow Chemical created a Sustainability Chemistry Index, which increased its sales of sustainable chemistry ...

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Demystifying Business Innovation

June 9, 2011
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Print PDF Guest post by John Sviokla Why innovate? Because the growth of your business ― and, ultimately, its success and sustainability ― demands it. In the past two decades over a billion new customers have entered the market economy, mostly in the parts of the world we now refer to as “emerging markets”. In the eyes of today’s CEO ― regardless of his or her home market ― that’s where the action is: it’s ...

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How Does IT Impact Business Productivity?

February 14, 2011
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Print PDF Guest post by Nalneesh Gaur Nick Carr’s controversial article on “IT doesn’t matter” published in 2003 noted that infrastructure technology is easily copied thus providing no competitive advantage. Yet, savvy businesses continue to pursue technology innovations to gain competitive advantages or improve business productivity in order to provide greater shareholder value, growth, and stability. Businesses that drive consistent productivity improvements have recognized the linkage between the need to drive innovation and discretionary spend ...

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How to Make Decision Making More Adaptable with Layers

December 3, 2010
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Print PDF Co-authored with John Sviokla Never before has such a mass of data existed. Needless to say, all this information complicates the decision-making process. Businesses need new strategies to answer the biggest question: How do we effectively sift through the mountain of information to gain valuable insights. Layers is a term we use for visual information systems that combine publicly available and company-owned tools to present relevant and contextual information-in a format that starts ...

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Inside the Huddle: Connecting Strategy with Execution

July 23, 2010
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We’ve hit the point in the summer when football training camps are almost upon us—one of our favorite times of the year. Football, in our opinion, more than other American sports, exemplifies the three dynamics we at Diamond use in assessing a company’s “Digital IQ”—Strategy, Mobilization, and Execution…...

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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?

May 5, 2009
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Print PDF by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1.  That the majority of new jobs are sourced through “weak ties,” not close relationships. (I never heard this before, but ...

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Why Twitter is the Duct Tape of Marketing and Why Every Firm Needs to Know How to Use It

April 3, 2009
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Print PDF Chris Curran & John Sviokla Duct tape is universally useful because it is incredibly simple, almost infinitely flexible, easily available, and cheap.  Twitter shares all these attributes.  Twitter is a new layer of communication which can be overlaid on everything – just like Duct Tape can be used to repair a chair, or make an artificial flower.  Anyone can use the web and their phone to both send and receive tweets (messages of 140 ...

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