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The HMG Innovation Accelerator: Driving Business Innovation When It’s Needed Most

Research conducted by HMG Strategy reveals that one of the top focus areas for technology executive leaders is working with the CEO and the executive team to enable innovation and grow the business. This is part of the reason why we’ve created the HMG Innovation Accelerator. The HMG Innovation Accelerator, developed in partnership with Saqib E. Awan, Founder & Managing Director at GTM Capital, is a forum which provides CIOs, CISOs and business technology leaders an opportunity to meet with the CEOs and founders of top technology startups and get an early view into hot technologies that can move the needle for the business and to tackle cybersecurity threats.
Eye on Phoenix: CIO Leadership: Reimagining the Future State Business with the CEO and the C-suite

Since most organizations are vulnerable to disruption, it’s imperative that CIOs and technology executives partner closely with the CEO and the C-suite to identify and execute on opportunities to disrupt their organizations.
Virtual Money: Crypto Debate Heats Up in Wake of Facebook’s Plan for Libra

Whether you love or hate the idea of cryptocurrency, you cannot escape the debate over its growing role in the economy.
Disrupting the Business with Breakthrough Thinking

Market disruption continues at a breakneck pace. Some companies are ripe to be upended, while others proactively disrupt themselves.
Eye on Silicon Valley: CIOs Are at the Center of Customer-Centric Business Disruption

Without question, we're living in an era of unparalleled innovation.
Disrupt or Die: The Fallacies Behind Most Digital Disruption Models

There's a mantra in business today - disrupt or risk becoming disrupted.
Disrupt or Be Disrupted

Digital insurgents are upending successful businesses and becoming the new incumbents.
Disrupt Yourself: The Courageous Leadership Needed by CIOs to Drive Digital Business Transformation Will Power the Discussion at the 2017 San Diego CIO Executive Leadership Summit

SAN DIEGO, CA – October 16, 2017 – In order to drive enterprise innovation and disruption, executives must first disrupt themselves by shifting their mindsets and being more open to taking risks.
Eye on London: Bracing for Brexit

Andy Wilton, CIO at Claranet, will be speaking at the upcoming London CIO Executive Leadership Summit.
The Transformational Promise of Blockchain

Imagine a giant network that can track transactions, ownership, and value securely, where activities can be verified and updated by all participants. In a nutshell, this is blockchain: a digital, distributed ledger system in which identical copies are controlled by multiple participants.
Capturing Insights for Disruptive Innovation

Some of the most successful examples of disruptive innovation involve companies that identified unmet and, in some cases, unimagined customer needs. In other cases, the genesis for disruption was borne out of necessity.
Responding to Disruption

From consumer financial services to media and transportation, digital disruption is altering the business landscape dramatically. To date, leaders of long-standing companies have responded to digital disruption in one of three ways, according to PwC.
Leveraging the Internet of Things for Disruption Today

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers businesses new ways to expand relationships with customers and to improve operational efficiency. For instance, Samsung has introduced a smart refrigerator that takes a picture of the contents each time the door closes. The image can be sent to a homeowner's smartphone to remind them when items need to be replaced.
Cultivating a Mindset for Disruptive Innovation

In the current business climate, if your organization isn't proactively driving disruption, it's reacting to it. Driving disruptive innovation requires passion and willingness to discard old business practices and this-is-how-we've-always-done-things approach to getting things done. In order to succeed at disruptive innovation, companies need to be unshackled from outdated approaches, enabling the business to act on opportunities to serve customers in new ways and achieve competitive advantage.
Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

Your company doesn't need to be an Apple or an Uber or an Airbnb to grab disruption by the horns. CIOs for companies in industries ranging from financial services to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals can enable their organizations to leverage existing and emerging technologies and spearhead innovation that delivers new forms of value to customers and shareholders.

There has never been a more exciting time to be a technology executive.

Today’s technology executive plays a pivotal role in helping his or her organization respond to these forces of change. In essence, they serve as conductors to orchestrate the three pillars of organizational success – people, processes, and technology – and to draw upon their unique view of the enterprise to bring these elements into harmony.

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