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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 February 23, 2010 |
Battling Lack of IT Understanding CIOs debate the causes of business misconceptions of IT and how to educate stakeholders. |
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 June 24, 2009 |
How to Save Your Strategic Rights The CIO of Santander Consumer USA convinced the business to keep him on the IT strategic team. |
CIO December 21, 2012 Martha Heller |
Breaking Through the CIO Paradox The final CIO Paradox column examines three of the biggest contradictions that leaders in the CIO role face. |
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. |
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 August 29, 2011 |
Becoming a Strategic IT Leader How the CIO of Oakwood Worldwide learned to provide greater business value. |
CIO April 1, 2003 Stephanie Overby |
Worst Practices CIOs you don't want to emulate |
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 1, 2002 Kaplan & Prewitt |
The Future - The State of the CIO Four experts agree: The job is changing, with strategic planning becoming ever more central to the CIO role... |
CIO December 15, 2009 |
Connecting Points: Takeaways from CIO Executive Council Workshops Getting a seat at the executive table is common for CIOs, but even those who are there have to learn how to define their role as business strategist. |
CIO May 14, 2010 Martha Heller |
How to Gain Stakeholder Engagement CIOs have many tactics for getting business partners to step up as change leaders. |
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 January 1, 2007 Michael Friedenberg |
New Year, Old Lessons CIOs deserve to be congratulated because 2006 was a year of great accomplishment and, in some ways, redemption. |
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 15, 2008 Robert Fecteau |
Teaching Future CIOs the Ropes The CIO of BAE Systems' Customer Solutions group shares his method for encouraging and training potential successors. |
CIO October 10, 2008 Diane Frank |
How to Renegotiate an Outsourcing Contract CIO tips for getting what you want from the vendor. |
CIO March 1, 2002 Eric Berkman |
Skills - The State of the CIO Successful CIOs stress business acumen, not technical expertise... |
CIO March 1, 2002 Edward Prewitt |
The State of the CIO The 2002 State of the CIO special report describes a job role in transition... |
CIO June 16, 2010 Martha Heller |
Stop Your Company From Looking Outside for the Next CIO Advice on how CIOs can give their chosen successors a better chance. |
CIO August 25, 2009 Martha Heller |
Five Resume Musts For Future CIOs CIOs share the work experience they would most like to see on the resumes of future CIOs. |
Insurance & Technology October 5, 2006 Barry Rabkin |
What Makes a Successful CIO? The CIOs who are most successful in the insurance industry are strong leaders and good businesspeople. |
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 November 25, 2013 Maryfran Johnson |
A CIO Survival Guide to Saying No One of the toughest leadership challenges for CIOs today is having to refuse business requests for new technology. Here's how to keep the lines of IT-business communication open while communicating honestly with your fellow executives. |
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 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 June 1, 2006 Sari Kalin |
Making IT Portfolio Management a Reality CIOs share strategies, tips and insights on making IT portfolio management a reality. |
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 1, 2001 Susannah Patton |
Michael Earl Read what a professor of information management at London Business School has to say about the changing role of the CIO... |
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 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. |
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 March 1, 2002 |
The 2002 State of the CIO Survey Our survey findings highlight the fact that the CIO's time is spent more on strategy than pure technology... |
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 March 25, 2011 Kim S. Nash |
Teach Young Workers to Be Business Thinkers Train employees how to think about using data, not just how to use IT systems. |
CIO April 1, 2004 Ben Worthen |
How to Become a Fixture At companies notorious for burning through CIOs, your credibility and effectiveness are in question the moment you walk through the door. |
CIO November 1, 2005 Susan Cramm |
Your To-Do List for Managing Demand As your business clamors for more and more IT, CIOs need a strategy for determining value. |
CIO August 20, 2010 Thomas Wailgum |
The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead It's make-or-break transformation time for CIOs. Those who can only take orders are being ousted. Those who seek to become true strategic business leaders should concentrate on four key areas. |
CIO January 27, 2010 Martha Heller |
What Are the Built-in Challenges that Set IT Up for Failure? Here's one way to frame the inherent contradictions in IT. |
CIO March 1, 2002 Tom Field |
Executive Relationships A majority of CIOs now answer to the CEO, but some of their best relationships are with other executives... |
HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes |
New CIO Role: Change Warrior Effective CIOs can move the rest of the company to do things differently. |
CIO November 21, 2013 Kim S. Nash |
CIOs Must Learn the Politics of No CIOs may have good reason to reject a proposal or nix a technology request, but an inept or frequent 'no' will get you sidelined. |
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. |
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 May 28, 2013 Martha Heller |
Energy Company's IT and Business Units Share Responsibility At Energy Future Holdings, CEO John Young emphasizes the human factors behind IT, supports standardization and expects the CIO to work with business partners. He comments on his leadership style. |
CIO October 1, 2002 Prewitt & Traylor |
An Objective Syllabus The federal CIO Council, created by a 1996 executive order as the principal forum for senior IT managers in federal agencies, produced a set of "high-level competencies" that government CIOs need. |
CIO April 1, 2002 Raghavan Rajaji |
How to Get Your Budget Approved CFOs look for certain things in a good IT budget. Here's what yours should -- and shouldn't -- include... |
CIO December 1, 2006 Carrie Mathews |
Planning Takes Planning Creating a strategic plan for IT can be a long and arduous process, and it can't be done in a vacuum; business input is essential. Here are tips on how to make strategic planning pay off. |
CIO January 1, 2014 Kim S. Nash |
State of the CIO 2014: The Great Schism Digital strategist or traditional CIO? Our 13th annual State of the CIO research reveals the great career divide. |