Thought Leadership | 情報テクノロジーオフィサー（CIO, CTO）

The key to startup success: Founders must be open to hiring talented individuals who complement their skills to help address gaps and tackle challenges.

Entrepreneur and Internet visionary Esther Dyson on trust and risk in cyberspace.

On average, CIOs leave companies every four years, often spurred by broad changes in corporate strategy or role. CIOs also exit because they can’t shake free the budget they require or they find their strategy de-emphasized.

Executives who join companies to lead a digital transformation process are faced with a range of barriers, and may even abandon the project in just a few months. He or she will walk away frustrated and tired of fighting against the tide. The reason for this is that these professionals are hired with the support and incentive of the CEO, but soon find themselves alone.

Cyclical market volatility will continue to be standard in the energy industry. An impending market rebound has many feeling cautiously optimistic, but the extended cycle of the current downturn — now being characterized as “lower for longer” — has revealed a new reality in the energy sector that will change leadership imperatives for the foreseeable future.

Energy companies are finally starting to take IT seriously, says Egon Zehnder consultant Trent Aulbaugh in an interview with Bauer Business Focus.

過去15年の間、通信業界はインフラ事業からデジタル・トランスフォーメーションの実現者となることを目指し、進化を重ねてきた。通信事業のマーケットもまた急激に変化している。

Herminia Ibarra on how current success can actually work against fulfilling your potential.

We once heard a board chairman call a CIO serving on his board a “one-note piano,” because the CIO repeated his same theme over and over.

Sarah Rome has joined Egon Zehnder’s Los Angeles office as a core member of the firm's Consumer and Technology practices.

As digitization sweeps across China’s economy and transforms consumers’ expectations and behavior, companies in every sector are scrambling to keep up. They must reimagine customer experiences, win at e-commerce, and harness digital technology to reshape their operations and organizations.

CHROs today face an ever more difficult challenge – identifying and developing the talent to drive the transformation required in today’s organizations, individuals who can solve problems quickly and in new ways, with the fortitude to navigate in uncertainty and to accept and overcome failure through an onslaught of data and marketplace changes.