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CIO
May 1, 2011
Diane Frank |
How We Chose Our 2011 Ones to Watch Honorees CIO magazine and 31 members of the CIO Executive Council collaborated to choose 25 honorees for our 2011 Ones to Watch awards.   |
CIO
October 27, 2010
Lauren Brousell |
Strategic CIOs Struggle to Achieve Ambitions A new survey from the CIO Executive Council suggests that while CIOs aspire to be strategic leaders, they lack the time and appropriately trained staff to move out of an operational role. |
CIO
November 2, 2010
Maryfran Johnson |
Advice For CIOs: Beyond the Obvious CIOs who mean business and the lessons they learned that helped them succeed. |
CIO
July 28, 2009 |
Mid-Market CIO Wish List for Vendors Although relationships between mid-market CIOs and their IT vendors have generally improved, there is still a significant disconnect between what CIOs want and what their vendors deliver. Top requests include tailoring offerings and better communication. |
CIO
March 15, 2003
Chris Lofgren |
The Importance of Being Influential Schneider National's CEO says IT is too important to business today for the CIO to be seen but not heard. |
CIO
November 30, 2009 |
Collaboration: Interaction Disconnect It is easier to set the goals for collaboration systems than to achieve the intended results. |
CIO
March 25, 2011
Michael Friedenberg |
Three CIO Forums for Peer-to-Peer Resources CIOs find guidance from their peers to be of the highest value. Here are three forums where CIOs can connect with one another. |
CIO
December 18, 2009 |
Develop Your External Leadership Skills A collection of essays from CIO Executive Council members on understanding and developing the external-facing leadership competencies of "customer focus," "commercial orientation" and "market knowledge." |
CIO
May 1, 2009 |
Benchmark Your Executive Leadership Skills Use this assessment tool to benchmark your leadership competencies beyond running the IT function. |
CIO
December 15, 2003
Charlie Feld |
IT Leadership in 2010 The skills that CIOs will need to win the game |
CIO
February 23, 2010 |
Battling Lack of IT Understanding CIOs debate the causes of business misconceptions of IT and how to educate stakeholders. |
CIO
July 27, 2009 |
Download Vendor Relations Playbook Excerpt This 10-page excerpt provides a look into best practices from more than 20 mid-market company CIOs, and perspectives from IT vendors. |
CIO
March 17, 2010 |
Build Up Your Influence Members of the CIO Executive Council offer ideas for how to establish credibility and create strong relationships early while working with stakeholders. |
CIO
September 28, 2011
Michael Friedenberg |
The CIO vs. CFO: Dueling Surveys Debate Who's in Charge of IT CIO magazine says most CIOs authorize IT spending, but a Gartner survey says more CFOs do. Who's right? |
CIO
September 26, 2013
Lauren Brousell |
Door Opens for More Female CIOs at Universities The decline in the percentage of university CIOs who are women may be reversed as more male CIOs retire, a new study says. |
Insurance & Technology
October 6, 2008
Nathan Conz |
2008's Elite 8 Describe the CIO of the Future What challenges will insurance CIOs of the next 10 years face? How will the role change? This year's Elite 8 honorees draw on their experience to answer the question: "What will the CIO job be 10 years from now?" |
CIO
April 1, 2003
Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
What You Have to Say - Survey Results A year after our first "State of the CIO" survey, more than 500 IT leaders tell us they're spending more time on alignment and less time on staffing and new technologies. And, needless to say, they're still wrestling with scarce resources. |
CIO
January 1, 2014
Maryfran Johnson |
Traditional vs. Digital CIOs: Survey Reveals a Growing Divide CIO research reveals stark contrasts between traditional CIOs who focus more on internal operations and digital CIOs who expand IT's influence externally to work directly with customers and business colleagues. |
CIO
March 15, 2004
Michael Goldberg |
Value - When it comes to producing lasting value, CIOs need to be demanding--of themselves, their executive counterparts and their organizations--and committed to asking questions that address doubts about technology's worth and an organization's ability to use IT well. |
CIO
February 15, 2002
Christopher Lindquist |
IT Needs Leadership The Meta Group's report, "The CIO Desk Reference: Critical Competencies Every CIO Must Master," states that CIOs must look beyond day-to-day operations and gain skills in areas such as IT portfolio management and value management. |
CIO
November 1, 2002
Susan H. Cramm |
The Business Knows Best You can never be smarter than your internal customers. |
CIO
June 15, 2005
Michael Schrage |
Buttressing the Business CIOs should stop trying to achieve buy-in for IT initiatives and start helping business colleagues sell the projects themselves. |
CIO
July 30, 2015
Adam Dennison |
CIOs are cutting back on the number of 'strategic' vendors they use In the past four years large enterprises (those with more than 1,000 employees) have reduced the number of vendors they consider to be strategic partners from six to three, on average. |
CIO
April 22, 2010 |
Global CIOs Think Business Strategy Shell Oil CIO Jay Crotts says market knowledge is necessary for successful global IT. |
CIO
August 27, 2010
Michael Friedenberg |
It's All About the Top Line As the economy recovers, CIOs have to help drive revenue growth, not just maintain profits through cutbacks and increased efficiency. |
CIO
February 27, 2014
Adam Dennison |
Mapping the C-Suite's Digital Future CIO's Publisher nominates the CIO as the best 'pathfinder' to help C-suite execs move confidently toward digital business, and provides a link to the CIO Executive Council's new digital readiness survey. |
CIO
July 15, 2005
Edward Prewitt |
Ones To Watch With our new Ones to Watch award, we honor a stellar group of future CIOs. Each honoree demonstrated vision, influence and execution. |
CIO
December 1, 2006
Susan Cramm |
Good CIOs, Bad Choices Smart IT leaders know the key to better decision making is to take a hard look in the mirror and identify what they need to work on to build credibility with the business. |
CIO
September 23, 2010 |
Download Best Practices for Advancing the CIO Role Survey results help identify how CIOs are shifting their primary focus from the internal and functional to the enterprise and transformational, and ultimately to the external and business strategy. |
CIO
September 28, 2010
Martha Heller |
Taking on IT Leadership in a New World CIOs must serve internal - even technical - needs while focusing on external value if they are to be the IT leaders their businesses need. |
CIO
October 12, 2012
Maryfran Johnson |
What It Takes to Improve CIO Tenure CIOs, with their 5-year average tenure, are on the low end of the spectrum when compared to the longevity of their colleagues in the C-suite. |
Bank Technology News
January 2008
Michael Dumiak |
CIOs Must Adjust to An Expanding Role A CIO's role today is more than being a conduit for IT strategy. Banks and other industries require them to be business strategists, salesmen and leaders. |
CIO
April 29, 2013
Adam Dennison |
Ramp Up Your IT Leadership Quotient Advice for aspiring CIOs: Sharpening your communications skills and raising your industry presence will put you on the path to a CIO job. |
CIO
January 2, 2013 |
CIOs Getting Better at People Skills Our annual checkup on the state of the CIO shows improvement in the leadership skills required to achieve great things for business peers and external customers, says Maryfran Johnson |
CIO
January 28, 2010 |
Download Smarter Ways for Vendors to Reach CIOs A best-practices field guide and public teleconference exploring the problems of, and solutions for, IT vendors cold-contacting CIOs to win new business. |
CIO
December 23, 2009
Martha Heller |
How IT is Set Up to Fail It's time to recognize the inherent CIO paradox and start fighting back. |
CIO
April 28, 2009
Kim S. Nash |
Consulting: How CIOs Know It's the Right Career Move In a tight economy, consulting can provide a lucrative alternative career. But it's not the right fit for all CIOs. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 22, 2005
Gil Makleff |
Making the CIO's Role Viable Managing hundreds of IT projects is no easy task, but strategies such as project portfolio management (PPM) can ease the burden on CIOs. |
CIO
February 1, 2003
Ben Worthen |
John Hagel on Web Services and You Managers at the edges of an enterprise, under intense pressure to reduce costs, see Web services as an easy way to integrate with business partners. However, the CIO is under equal pressure to control costs. And that can put the CIO in the uncomfortable position of saying no to technology. |
CIO
September 23, 2009
Martha Heller |
When the Business Is IT Do CIOs who work for IT companies have more opportunities for influence and impact than CIOs who work for companies that sell soap? |
CIO
August 27, 2010
Martha Heller |
Stop Educating the Business and Start Delivering Value When it comes to convincing executives of IT's value, CIOs need to stop explaining what they're doing and just do it. |
CIO
November 14, 2012 |
CIOs Give Vendors Low Marks on Partnership A new index from the CIO Executive Council rates IT suppliers on 20 characteristics of truly strategic partners |
CIO
April 15, 2004
Jon Surmacz |
Your CEO Still Doesn't Get IT More than two-thirds of CIOs say that their CEOs view IT as a cost of doing business--and not, unfortunately, as a business enabler. |
CIO
January 28, 2010 |
CIOs as Business Leaders Bayer CIO Claudio Abreu urges more CIOs to cultivate business leadership credibility in their industries by getting closer to their markets |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007
Rod Travers |
Wireless, Real Time And Online CIOs must be the champions who identify and institutionalize technologies and information management practices that give their companies a competitive edge. |
CIO
September 23, 2009
Diane Frank |
CEO Sweet Talk When money is tight and staff members are stressed, it's more essential than ever for CIOs to have a game plan for what to do when there's a new personality with new priorities in the top office. |
Insurance & Technology
October 9, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Identifying the Insurance & Technology Elite 8 Insurance CIO Insurance industry analysts discuss what characteristics distinguish the most successful senior insurance technology executives deserving of recognition. |
CIO
April 15, 2004
Kim Girard |
Something Ventured, Something Gained CIOs and venture capitalists are back together. VCs are eager for CIOs' insights on startups. CIOs get access to and influence over the latest technology. |
CIO
December 17, 2009
Maryfran Johnson |
Alignment 2010 What's in store for 2010 business/IT alignment. |
CIO
March 30, 2009 |
How CIOs Can Best Influence Stakeholders To be successful, CIOs must continuously pitch, persuade and prompt decisions on the part of business stakeholders over whom they have no authority |
