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A new dawn for the technology officer
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As companies strive to create value from AI, generative AI, and other rapidly evolving technologies, enterprise tech officers will make fundamental shifts in the way they operate.
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Shared accountability and adaptability: Keys to a successful CIO journey
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Costco’s chief information and digital officer details how technology leadership is expanding—as businesses increasingly...
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Moving past gen AI’s honeymoon phase: Seven hard truths for CIOs to get from pilot to scale
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Getting to scale requires CIOs to focus on fewer things but do them better.
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False friends or good ends? The CIO’s four-point guide to navigating technology trends
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Not all tech trends are created equal. Keeping a clear eye on what matters can help steer to better decisions.
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Five key questions to get a tech transformation right
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The most financially successful companies approach tech transformations differently from the rest, and their methods suggest...
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Technology’s generational moment with generative AI: A CIO and CTO guide
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CIOs and CTOs can take nine actions to reimagine business and technology with generative AI.
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Rewired
For the first time, Rewired translates the hard-won lessons McKinsey has learned helping companies deliver successful...
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The big product and platform shift: Five actions to get the transformation right
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To succeed, incumbent organizations need to take five actions as they scale their product and platform model transformations.
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What CIOs need from their CEOs and boards to make IT digital ready
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McKinsey research shows that CIOs need five things from their CEOs and boards to transform IT, but CIOs have an important role...
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The CIO agenda for the next 12 months: Six make-or-break priorities
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With the post-pandemic economy taking shape, CIOs can evolve IT’s mission to shape the business.
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Seven lessons on how technology transformations can deliver value
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Our annual IT strategy survey shows how technology investments are proving their worth, especially at companies making more tech-based...
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The next chapter: Driving technology leadership in the public sector
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Leadership transitions are an opportune time for public-sector CIOs to accelerate technology modernization using our three-vector...
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How CIOs and CTOs can accelerate digital transformations through cloud platforms
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To capture the real value from cloud, companies need to focus their investments and build a cloud-ready operating model.
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CIOs are redefining what a successful relationship with their IT providers looks like
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As CIOs lead their IT organizations through transformations, long-established relationships with IT providers are set to change....
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The power of platforms to reshape the business
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At McKinsey’s 16th annual Technology IT Conference, leading CIOs shared glimpses of how they are reshaping...
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The CIO challenge: Modern business needs a new kind of tech leader
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As technology becomes increasingly important, an organization’s success depends on whether the CIO can move from being...
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A new mandate for the oil and gas chief information officer
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In an increasingly data-dependent sector, oil and gas companies need to scale up their use of technology across the enterprise...
Managing through the pandemic
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How CIOs are rethinking their organizations in light of COVID-19
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Brant Carson, partner in McKinsey’s Sydney office, shares how CIOs are pivoting in the short and medium term to prepare...
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A practical way for CIOs to manage IT costs through the COVID-19 crisis
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A skillful CIO can not only cut current IT costs but also help position the company for recovery and future growth.
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How CIOs can work with outsourcing providers to navigate the coronavirus crisis
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From employee safety to work-at-home data security, business continuity, and financial resilience, companies need to follow a...
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After the first wave: How CIOs can weather the coronavirus crisis
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Chief information officers must act swiftly to manage IT through the pandemic in a pragmatic way.
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The CIO’s moment: Leadership through the first wave of the coronavirus crisis
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It’s already clear that CIOs during the coronavirus outbreak are playing a central role in navigating the crisis, even as companies...
CIO perspectives
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The cloud as a strategic ecosystem for innovation and growth
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In this interview, Deutsche Börse’s chief information officer and chief operating officer explains how the company’s...
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The business value of innovation in the cloud
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In this interview, TrueBlue’s chief technology and information officer explains why migrating to the cloud was always about...
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The benefits of being a cloud trailblazer
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To meet an SEC demand for greater transparency, FINRA chose the road less traveled—public cloud—and reached its goals...
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A new IT operating model to better serve employees
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In this interview, Johnson & Johnson’s CIO of Corporate Technology explains how IT transformed the employee experience—and...
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Lessons from a high-ROI cloud transformation journey
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Some roadblocks on the cloud journey aren’t apparent until it’s under way. CUNA Mutual’s CIO and its vice president...
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Can a Japanese pharmaceutical become a social innovator?
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Santen CIO Minori Hara explains how IT is enabling the ophthalmological company to deliver a holistic sense of well-being around...
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CIO perspectives: Leading the tech function through COVID-19
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Rhonda Gass of Stanley Black & Decker and Klara Jelinkova of Rice University discuss technology’s burgeoning role,...
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The benefits of a CISO background to a business-unit CIO
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A deep understanding of cybersecurity is a competitive advantage.
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Enterprise-wide security is both a technology and business issue
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CISOs have important skills that can position them for the CIO role.
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Robust cybersecurity requires much more than great technology
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Security is increasingly an interdisciplinary capability.
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Becoming one of Georgia’s first agile banks
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In an interview with McKinsey, Bank of Georgia deputy CEO and CIO Vakhtang Bobokhidze talks about...