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The great divide: Separating operations and innovation

CIO

Of the many possible answers, some of our clients elect to carry the transformation further by separating their employees into two groups: those responsible for operations and those responsible for innovation. Operations will always take priority over innovation whenever there’s a fire. Trade-offs. Disadvantages.

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Henkel embraces gen AI as enabler and strategic disruptor

CIO

To achieve its vision, Henkel laid down a five-year strategic roadmap that involved reshuffling the IT organization, creating a new digital unit, consolidating CIO and CDO venture activities under one roof, and building global innovation centers in hubs like Berlin, Shanghai, Bangalore, and the US.

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SE2 Becomes Zinnia, Defining an Open Insurance Experience for Life and Annuities

Wink Intel

Zinnia is about building a passionate culture driven to positively impact our industry through innovative and transformative technology solutions,” said Brad Medd, Chief Technology Officer of Zinnia. These capabilities will interoperate seamlessly with its new system of record to create the Open Insurance marketplace for life and annuities.

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How to Become a ‘Woke’ Organization

Domo

Why we liked that story is because we think it’s a little like digital innovation at this time, because if we can share and get best practice out on the table, then the whole standard, the whole game, is going to carry on and increase and increase. We have all these major innovations, but what does that actually add up to?

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Mentoring in Marketing

Domo

My role is to work across the value chain. It was a little bit different in McDonald’s, because being a retail business, you probably weren’t going to invest that level in innovative thinking—sort of more like 80/15/5. What is your relationship to your CFO, CIO, and CEO as it relates to your time and energy?