In his blog, Harvey Nash USA President and CEO Bob Miano explores Professor James Moore’s thought-provoking address at the recent CBI conference in London. In “Looking for Answers? Look at Your Hands,” he discusses Mr. Moore’s advice to be observant, learn from the past and know that the solutions to today’s challenges—business and otherwise—lie within our own hands.
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Anna Frazzetto, SVP of Technology Solutions for Harvey Nash, and her guest Doug Harr, the CIO of operational intelligence provider Splunk, recently examined what big data means for businesses and IT organizations today. Within a business’ voluminous and growing data stores (think customer, product, supply chain, transactional, operational, security, financial, workforce data and more) are keys to greater business performance.
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Smart Enterprise Exchange, 12/9/2011...The degree to which IT is picking up the pace -- and the degree to which that change matters to the business -- is suggested by a CIO survey conducted this past June by Harvey Nash USA, an executive recruiter, in conjunction with PA Consulting Group. In the survey, more than a third of the respondents said driving revenue growth is now among their top priorities. Also, three-quarters of the responding CIOs said they believe that if IT fails to innovate, their companies will lose market share.
Driving business at high speeds is top-of-mind for Senior IT Manager Bassett at Honda MPE. The $300 million (Australian) company distributes motorcycles, marine power equipment and watercraft through a network of more than 800 nationwide dealerships utilized by over 4,000 dealer staff. Bassett’s IT staff of nine took the initiative on its own to find ways to deliver more effective business services, and they began by revamping their customers’ Internet capabilities. “We pushed for more and more online systems for empowering our customers [the dealers] to order products,” Bassett says.
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In its new article, Harvey Nash’s Inspire Network—a group 2,000 strong providing senior business women opportunities to share and exchange ideas and experiences—examines new survey findings that show a belief there is anti-female bias in appointments to company boards. While 81 percent of the women who responded felt bias had a significant impact on female representation on boards, 64 percent were against formal quotas.
In this survey of more than 2,500 IT leaders around the world, Harvey Nash examines the current direction of IT strategy and the prevailing trends within IT leadership the world over. The 2011 CIO Survey reveals that the post-recession landscape is markedly different than it was just one year ago.
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