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May 30, 2012 |
Getting More Business Value Out of Vendors How CIOs are rebooting vendors' mind-sets to get away from the same old outsourcing contracts   |
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 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
October 10, 2008
Diane Frank |
How to Renegotiate an Outsourcing Contract CIO tips for getting what you want from the vendor. |
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
November 1, 2003
Elana Varon |
Getting the Best from Your Vendors (What Really Works) It may be tempting to squeeze vendors for every dollar. But research shows that lowball tactics eventually boomerang into poor service and support. |
CIO
August 26, 2009 |
How to Make IT-Business Alignment a Reality CIOs advise embedding IT staff in the business, focusing on business processes and leveraging business mentors. |
CIO
April 17, 2008 |
The Vendor Management Bible Whether you're new to vendor management or a seasoned negotiator, these expert tips can help you learn more about the process, add value to your deal with any vendor and put you in the driver's seat. |
CIO
January 13, 2010
Johnson & Levien |
CIO's December 2009 Economic Impact Survey Results Exclusive survey of heads of IT suggests budgets are continuing to stabilize and large companies, at least, are opening their checkbooks |
CIO
September 24, 2008
Diane Frank |
So You've Inherited a Crummy Outsourcing Contract... CIOs share tips for fixing problem relationships. |
CIO
February 1, 2004
Gregoire & Urwiler |
Sweet Deals or Bitter Meals? Should you agree to be a poster reference in return for preferential treatment? Two CIOs take opposing sides in this ongoing debate. |
CIO
August 28, 2013
Adam Dennison |
New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer? CIO's Publisher wonders why all the burdens of IT process-creating and policy-making for new technologies must fall on the CIO's shoulders. Should vendors be stepping up to help? |
CIO
December 18, 2009 |
Communicating IT Value CIOs at Eaton, Bain and Thomson Reuters market IT value by emphasizing operations, teaming on strategy and getting staff comfortable with the business |
CIO
August 26, 2014 |
Calling a Truce in CIO-CMO Budget Battles Although tech spending power is expanding for CMOs, CIO magazine's publisher, Adam Dennison, sees the major influence over IT budgets staying in the hands of CIOs. |
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
August 26, 2009 |
How to Sever Bad Vendor Relationships Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund CIO Cindy Warkentin advises mid-market CIOs on how to walk away. |
CIO
July 27, 2009 |
Download Vendor Performance Scorecards Use these scorecards to evaluate vendor strengths, weaknesses and performance history. |
CIO
November 30, 2011
Maryfran Johnson |
Make Your Vendors Work For You Our magazine editor in chief discusses vendor relationships and our story on how to truly partner with your vendors through a vendor collective |
CIO
Adam Dennison |
CIO magazine makes the digital leap CIO is taking a huge step in its own digital transformation: The November 1, 2015, issue of CIO magazine is our final edition in print. |
CIO
January 1, 2014
Adam Dennison |
Follow the Money: CIOs Have Nothing to Fear From CMOs Our publisher doesn't buy the notion that CMO budgets for IT will outstrip those of CIOs in the coming years, citing new State of the CIO research to prove it. |
CIO
February 23, 2010 |
CIOs are Gearing Up for Greater Success Using smart investment and leveraging enterprise decisions, CIOs are helping position their companies to come out of the downturn at full speed. |
CIO
July 16, 2010 |
Team Up for Business Value In this CIO 100 Award-winning initiative, Hess CIO Jeff Steinhorn created metrics and governance with vendors to boost outsourcing value. |
CIO
May 1, 2009 |
Benchmark Your Executive Leadership Skills Use this assessment tool to benchmark your leadership competencies beyond running the IT function. |
CIO
May 1, 2012
Gary Beach |
How CIOs Can Stay Relevant in the Future Cloud computing and the consumerizaton of IT have pushed the CIO role into uncharted territory. CIOs better get focused on the future, or "CIO" may soon stand for "chief irrelevancy officer." |
CIO
June 24, 2009 |
How Social Networks Bloom in the Enterprise Council-member CIOs rely on employee word of mouth, user direction, and new attitudes on control to drive Web. 2.0 momentum. |
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
June 1, 2003
Ben Worthen |
No Tolerance for High Maintenance Fed up with rising costs of software maintenance, CIOs are finding they have the power to negotiate better terms up front and get more bang for their buck. |
CIO
July 1, 2004 |
Take Back Enterprise Technology It's time for CIOs to stand up to rapacious vendors. |
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
September 9, 2009
Albert Eng |
Getting More Value from Offshore Vendors Apply these simple criteria to evaluate potentially strategic offshore partners. |
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
November 2, 2011
Diane Frank |
How CIOs Build Bridges With Other C-Level Execs Top-notch CIOs are boosting IT's reputation and forming stronger relationships with other business leaders. |
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, 2009
David F. Carr |
5 Things You Need to Know about Software-as-a-Service Contracts How CIOs can guarantee secure SaaS contracts. |
CIO
January 15, 2006
Michael Friedenberg |
Do Vendors Deliver? CIOs want fewer - and better - vendor partners. |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology
July 29, 2008
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Banks Increasingly Are Creating Vendor Management Offices When one considers that large banks can have thousands of vendor relationships, it's no wonder vendor management is a growing trend in the industry. |
CIO
November 1, 2010
Maryfran Johnson |
CIO Magazine Founder Joins Hall of Fame CIO magazine's Hall of Fame started with Joe Levy and his idea to honor the leaders of the information age. |
CIO
October 1, 2002
Alison Bass |
The Job Just Got Bigger As if CIOs don't have enough to worry about, marketing guru Regis McKenna argues in his new book, Total Access, that they are now the guardians of customer strategy and outreach -- functions once considered marketing's responsibility. |
CIO
March 15, 2004
Martha Heller |
Six Smart Strategies for Handling the Help Desk - The Exchange Members of the Best Practice Exchange offer ways to make the most of your understaffed help desk. |
CIO
May 26, 2009
Jarina D'Auria |
Bulletproofing the IT Budget CFOs offer advice to CIOs on creating a winning budget and setting financial strategy. |
CIO
August 1, 2002
Sarah D. Scalet |
The Truth About Customer References: How Sweet Deals Can Be Rotten Business CIOs who accept favors in return for saying good things about vendors are putting themselves and their career in jeopardy. And so are the CIOs who listen to them. |
CIO
July 29, 2011
Martha Heller |
How to Succeed at Innovation Three CIO 100 winners share their tips and tricks for creating innovative business value. |
CIO
August 26, 2009 |
Download Stakeholder Relationship Worksheet One CIO shares his method for tracking how to most effectively work with decision-making executives. |
CIO
August 31, 2011
Christine Celli |
Why CIOs Should Clone Themselves CIOs who want a strategic role need to delegate. Start by training an up-and-coming leader to be second-in-command. |
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 14, 2010 |
Why Boards Need CIOs Suzanne Woosley, a veteran corporate board director, makes the case for CIOs as corporate advisors. |
CIO
October 15, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
The Incredible Shrinking CIO Their budgets have been cut, their work's been outsourced, their staff's been downsized, and they've been pushed off the executive team. Their status within the enterprise has suffered. That's dumb. And for CIOs, not fighting back would be dumber. |
CIO
July 15, 2003
Michael Schrage |
Squeeze Now, Pay Later A wounded vendor may turn around and bite the CIO who squeezes it too hard. |
CIO
January 1, 2002
Tom Field |
How to Get In and Out of an Outsourcing Deal How to structure IT outsourcing deals. |
