Due to the high volatility in the field of information technology (IT) and the rapid technological advancements, all IT professionals constantly have to be able to evaluate trends and put them into context. This is especially true for those who fulfill the role of a company’s chief information officer (CIO). But if there is a gap between the required set of skills and those needed, training bec...

OBJECTIVES To identify the critical dimensions of hospital Chief Executive Officers' (CEOs) involvement in a quality and safety and to offer practical guidance to assist CEOs to fulfil their leadership role in quality improvement (QI). DESIGN Qualitative interview study. SETTING 20 organisations participating in the main phase of the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI) programme across the UK. ...

This paper discusses in its entirety, the CIO (Chief Information Officer) position in the public sector. Governments are increasingly adopting Information Technology for internal processes and for the delivery of service to their citizens. It includes literature on CIO roles and responsibilities which is heavily based on the private sector, due to the recognition of the role in this sector over...

Although several prior studies have examined associations between firm social capital and environmental sustainability, the links relational resources (i.e., ties strength), knowledge integration, performance yet to be well established at micro-level. This study, therefore, aims determine (1) how integration serves as a mediating mechanism for relationship (2) this impact differs different leve...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the extent which presence of chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) in top management teams (TMTs) helps firms reduce incidence product recalls. Design/methodology/approach The authors identified all recalls for period 2010–2017 issued by publicly held regulated US Consumer Product Safety Commission. These data were subsequently combined with information on T...

INTRODUCTION Many hospitals are currently in the process of developing and implementing electronic medical records (EMR) systems. This is a critical time for developing a framework that can measure and allow for comparison the effectiveness of EMR systems across hospitals that have implemented these systems. The motivation for this study comes from the realization that there is limited research...

First impressions are powerful and rich sources of information about other people, and studies have demonstrated that they predict performance in numerous domains, such as teaching (Ambady & Rosenthal, 1993) and electoral success (Todorov, Mandisodza, Goren, & Hall, 2005). Much of this work, however, has employed outcome variables that are subjective. For example, in the study of teacher effect...

Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) are establishing themselves as new executives at the top management level of companies that go through a digital transformation. The full article is based on six case studies of CDOs and describes how they fulfill their positions. Five of the cases are from the “CDO Recommended” region of the figure and one from the “CDO Can be Helpful” region. From these cases, we...

Digital innovation impacts every industry, and in response many organizations have introduced a new leadership role—the chief digital officer (CDO). Based on interviews with CDOs from various sectors, we have identified three types of CDOs—digital accelerators, digital marketers and digital harmonizers—and three domains where successful CDOs build digital capabilities (digital innovation, data ...