Dan Woods is CTO and editor of CITO Research, a firm focused on advancing the craft of technology leadership.
Dan Woods is CTO and editor of CITO Research, a publication that seeks to advance the craft of technology leadership.
Davide Cito, a Vatican adviser and professor of canonical law at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
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By publicly saying the resignation is his own choice, Father Cito added, Pope Benedict has dispelled fears of a rivalry.
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Dan Woods is chief technology officer and editor of CITO Research, a firm focused on the needs of CTOs and CIOs.
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Dan Woods is CTO and editor of CITO Research, a publication that helps CIOs and CTOs optimize the present and build the future.
On Tuesday morning, Joe Torre had attracted a sizeable contingent of media in the hallway after the celebratory press conference honoring him, Lou Piniella and Cito Gaston.
After doing just the slightest amount of digging I was able to find several ways, some quite easy, that the CITO can help marketing do a better job.
It is time for the CMO and the CITO function to work together much more closely to make the most of the panoply of marketing capabilities now available.
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In the 13th century, Pope Celestine V resigned under pressure and was imprisoned by his successor, who feared the previous pope could become a rival, said Father Cito.
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Further, those IT capabilities can be applied to new questions, and new information that would be routinely transferred from the CITO to the business, which could then start a process of innovation.
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Instead of placing the burden of on the shoulders of business heads, the CITO must create an innovation function in his organization, in which practitioners are systematically learning about the problems the business is having, and the information needed to support the business.
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In so doing, the CITO will become more intimate with business processes, and the capabilities that are possessed by IT, but which are opaque to the businessperson, could be applied, both to the questions and to the information that is drawn out by asking the questions.
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Eventually, however, wider awareness enables some processes to be radically transformed for the better. (For more about this, see the big idea on Social Media and Business Process Transformation at CITO Research.) Note that an intelligent activity stream filter is key to making this work, and we do not have one yet.
In August I wrote about how SaaS-based marketing technologies make it easy for the marketing department to use quite a bit of marketing technology without ever having to talk to a CITO. (See Marketing Technologies Bypass IT.) While it is clearly possible for the CITO to never set foot in the marketing department, the question is: Is it a good idea?
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