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CIO
November 28, 2011
Kim S. Nash |
Rules of Engagement How Shell gets 11 vendors to play nicely together   |
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 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
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
April 17, 2012
Maryfran Johnson |
New Table Stakes for the CIO The "big five" tech megatrends - cloud, mobile, social, consumer IT and big data - will render the CIO obsolete, or so they say. |
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
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
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. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2011 |
Cloud, Virtualization Driving 2011 IT Spending While the recession still has IT budgets in deep freeze, CIOs in 2011 are turning their resources to new models of computing, including the cloud and virtualized environments. |
CIO
November 2, 2011
Diane Frank |
Candid Talk Trumps the Blame Game How Hilton's CIO uses honest communications to work through difficult times - and avoid finger-pointing. |
CIO
July 23, 2009
Michael Friedenberg |
Customer-Vendor Alignment Customers and vendors need to work together to align strategies and strengthen partnerships. |
CIO
November 2, 2011
Maryfran Johnson |
Why CIOs Detest the Phrase "IT and the Business" Here's why it's time to dump this polarizing phrase and make IT and business people equal partners. |
CIO
March 1, 2003
Stephanie Overby |
The End of the Billion-Dollar Babies? Are we seeing the end of the single vendor, multibillion-dollar, 10-year outsourcing deal that was popular in the 1990s? |
CIO
October 27, 2010
Michael Friedenberg |
Cloud and UI: CIOs Have a Big Opportunity on Their Hands Mobile, m-commerce, geolocation, social media and real-time analytics are changing business. CIOs that can leverage this could own a key business priority around UI and the customer. |
CIO
May 1, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
Top CIOs Predict the Five-Year Future of the CIO Entrepreneur, futurist, global talent scout and master of business metrics. Those are some of the roles that CIOs will need to play in 2017 to be successful, according to today's award-winning CIOs. |
CIO
November 2, 2010
Kim S. Nash |
Taking Business Risks With Your IT Budget New IT-enabled business models can be created only when CIOs take risks, says Vinnie Mirchandani, an expert in outsourcing and author of a book on disruptive technologies. |
InternetNews
June 14, 2010 |
CIOs Weigh Cloud's Prospects, Complications CIOs are turning to cloud-based computing options in greater numbers these days but it's still way too early for most to commit completely to an on-demand infrastructure. |
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
October 27, 2009 |
Setting Rocky Vendor Relationships Right CIOs rely on education, peer relationships, and warnings to restore contracts gone wrong. |
CIO
February 24, 2010
Michael Friedenberg |
Newtonian Markets Watching the events of 2009 unfold, one could swear to have seen Newton's third law of motion at work in the IT vendor partner ecosystem. |
CIO
July 16, 2010
Adam Hartung |
You Are Not Your Vendor CIOs must be flexible -- willing and able to reject legacy applications and vendor relationships -- so they can apply new technologies to business problems quickly. |
CIO
January 27, 2010
Thomas Wailgum |
A New Source of ERP Value CIOs want better integration of analytics for data insight. |
CIO
October 10, 2008
Diane Frank |
How to Renegotiate an Outsourcing Contract CIO tips for getting what you want from the vendor. |
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
January 18, 2012
Mikael Ricknas |
Survey: Business Intelligence Back on Top of CIOs Minds Business intelligence and analytics have again become the top technology priority for CIOs, replacing cloud computing. |
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
January 1, 2003
Christopher Koch |
Vendor Smackdown CIOs have been squeezing vendors for more than a year now, and in 2003 any vendor wanting to win new business or renew contracts will need to respond to very tough questions about ROI and demands for concessions that would have been unheard of a few years ago. |
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
March 1, 2002
Carol Zarrow |
What's Wrong with This Picture? CIOs are poor relations compared with their colleagues in the executive suite. CIOs make significantly less than their CEO, CFO and COO. Even at the higher end of the scale, CIOs are still at a disadvantage... |
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 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
June 20, 2014
Maryfran Johnson |
Why CIOs Must Own Data Valuation As more companies look to profit from the their data, CIOs must grow beyond their traditional roles as data stewards, says CIO magazine's editor in chief. |
CIO
August 14, 2014
Lauren Brousell |
5 Things CIOs and VCs Can Learn From Each Other CIOs and venture capitalists, two groups with seemingly different agendas, can often educate each other on how to evaluate tech trends and successfully construct deals. |
CIO
May 26, 2009
Martha Heller |
Are You a Bear Market CIO? In a tough economy, toss out bull market strategies and take a new approach to business development. |
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. |
CIO
January 27, 2010
Kim S. Nash |
ERP: How and Why You Need to Manage It Differently Enterprise Resource Planning has become a legacy system. That means simpler implementation, reduced maintenance costs and integrating new technologies. |
CIO
September 29, 2010
Maryfran Johnson |
Feeling Overclouded? You're Not Alone The 8th annual global security survey indicates a whopping 62 percent of you have little to no confidence in cloud-provider security. It's no wonder many CIOs are feeling clouded out. |
CIO
October 31, 2011
Weiss & Drewry |
The Secret to Forging Valuable Partnerships The CIOs of Kaiser Permanente and Procter & Gamble know a thing or two about the value of true strategic partnerships and how to build them. |
CIO
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
July 30, 2015 |
CIOs reveal how they get value from vendor partnerships CIOs and vendors enjoy mutual benefits when they're in step with each other |
CIO
January 4, 2015 |
CIOs Still Need to Strengthen the IT-Business Connection Our 14th Annual State of the CIO research reveals glaring disparities between what CIOs think they're delivering and what business people think they're getting from IT. |
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
September 25, 2013
Kim S. Nash |
CIOs Share How They Made the Leap to CEO CIOs who won the CEO job talk candidly about the relentless pressure for profits, the ultimate accountability and what they wish they'd known as CIO. |
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
January 1, 2011
Maryfran Johnson |
CIOs Recharged and Ready for 2011 Happily, our 2011 State of the CIO research reveals that this coming year will be all about enhancing productivity, investing strategically and fueling growth. |
CIO
June 9, 2010
Richard Pastore |
Why CIOs Need to Think Like CEOs The ability to think like a CEO, focusing on how a company engages with customers and its industry, makes for a better CIO-CEO partnership. |
CIO
July 31, 2015
Mary K. Pratt |
Meet the 2015 CIO Hall of Fame inductees The five CIO Hall of Fame inductees for 2015 are accomplished IT executives who have used technology and leadership savvy to blaze new trails. |
CIO
May 31, 2012
Michael Friedenberg |
CIOs Need a Wakeup Call Many CIOs think they're more relevant than ever before, but their CEOs often disagree. IDG Enterprise's own CEO is calling for CIOs to figure out how to better include innovation in their job descriptions |
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
February 1, 2006
Stephanie Overby |
Big Deals, Big Savings, Big Problems Large-scale outsourcing deals promise big savings, but they fail half the time. Here's how to make them work for you. |
