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HBS Working Knowledge
July 5, 2004
Weill & Ross |
Ten Principles of IT Governance You've invested heavily in technology, but where is the payoff? This excerpt from the new book IT Governance distills keys to creating greater value from IT.   |
CIO
June 15, 2004
Jeanne Ross & Peter Weill |
Recipe for Good Governance MIT research has found that good IT governance leads to better return on assets for companies. But what makes for good governance? Here are the ingredients. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 28, 2004
Gil Makleff |
Transparency in Tech Spending Transparency in spending corporate funds has been - until recently - "nice to have." The change from "nice to have" to "need to have now" has been well publicized, on the heels of fraud cases like those involving Enron and Worldcom, and it has crystallized in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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
January 28, 2010 |
Help Your Company Get Totally Green CIOs from JohnsonDiversey, Marriott and Hudson Highland share how they contribute to sustainability beyond IT. |
Insurance & Technology
October 12, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Mark Berthiaume Addresses the Big Picture at Chubb The enterprise IT governance and strategy initiatives driven by Elite 8 honoree Mark Berthiaume, CIO of Chubb's Specialty and Commercial divisions, are highlights of a career transcending the limits of business lines and of IT itself. |
CIO
April 1, 2003
Marvin Balliet |
Getting the Twain to Meet A Merrill Lynch CFO offers four tried-and-true tools for establishing common business and technology goals. |
CIO
May 14, 2010 |
Restructuring IT for Global Results How three CIOs are redesigning their teams to grow with their companies. |
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
September 1, 2005
Susan Cramm |
Research You Can Use CIOs need business justifications for IT projects beyond financials, such as cycle time or customer retention. Help them understand what kind of research you really need to align with business. |
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. |
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
May 25, 2011
Drewry & Weiss |
The CIO of 2014: Venture Capitalist, Orchestra Conductor, Contract Negotiator Managing technology is becoming less important to the CIO role than managing change. |
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
September 15, 2002
Christopher Koch |
The Powers That Should Be IT decisions have to reflect the goals of the business and engage the attention of the business, often without the participation or even the interest of the business. Sound hard? It is. But here's what you can do to make it easier. |
CIO
June 15, 2003
Todd Datz |
6 Habits of Highly Effective CIOs For top CIOs, alignment is not a goal. It's a way of life. A list of tactics that you should adopt as your own. |
CIO
August 5, 2009
Thomas Wailgum |
After a Massive Tech Project Failure: What IT Can Expect To avoid catastrophic IT project failure, do projects in bite-sized chunks, set proper expectations, and embrace transparency. |
CIO
May 1, 2003
Todd Datz |
How to Do It Right - Portfolio Management Portfolio management is a tool with clear benefits, among them a holistic view of IT projects across the enterprise and the alignment of IT with corporate strategy. But it isn't easy. We've found some portfolio managers willing to share their secrets. |
CIO
January 15, 2004 |
Inbox Thoughts on Obstacles to a CIO's Success |
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
November 30, 2009 |
Collaboration: Interaction Disconnect It is easier to set the goals for collaboration systems than to achieve the intended results. |
CIO
October 1, 2002
Susan H. Cramm |
A Letter to CXOs You have the IT capability you deserve. |
CIO
March 15, 2006
Abbie Lundberg |
The Next Wave Is Here Fundamental shifts in technology will make it possible for businesses to realize IT's promise of technology-enabled innovation, responsiveness and speed. |
HRO Today
September 2008
Atul Vashistha |
Good Governance Is Critical Supporting your global initiative with the three pillars of strategic, functional, and project governance is critical to outsourcing success. |
Insurance & Technology
November 17, 2004
Lisa Valentine |
Slow and Steady Judith Campbell discusses the important changes that have taken place in the way IT functions at New York Life in the seven years she has served as CIO. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 28, 2004
Katherine Burger |
Career Is Outstanding It wasn't long ago that people regularly joked about how CIO really stood for "Career is over." Today, even though accountability and transparency are the watchwords for any bank IT initiative, CIOs seem to be somewhat less vulnerable. |
Bank Technology News
December 2008
Michael Sisk |
Learning the A-B-Cs of Strategic IT Planning Strategic IT planning and management is still not widely used in banking as an enterprise architecture tool, but analysts predict that forces shaping the industry today may speed the adoption of this technology. |
National Defense
November 2012
Lambeth & Rhodes |
How to Manage the 'Cloud' for Greater Cost Savings In July, the Defense Department unveiled its ambitious new cloud computing strategy, which builds on a similar Obama administration strategy to address challenges, requirements and goals specific to Defense. |
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. |
FAO Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Chris Gattenio |
SLAs, Governance and Relationship Management Innovative organizations are implementing strong governance models and effective relationship management strategies in today's finance and accounting outsourcing arrangements. |
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. |
Global Services
October 31, 2008
Mike Beals |
Governance Tools Can be a Game Changer A successful outsourcing initiative requires the implementation of a disciplined outsourcing lifecycle methodology. To make this methodology work, both the customer and the service provider must together design an approach to govern the relationship using the right governance tools and guidelines |
Insurance & Technology
May 7, 2009
Michael A. Costonis et al. |
Survival Skills: Insurance CIOs Must Adapt to Changing Market Accenture consultants identify the traits that high-performance insurance CIOs must exhibit as they adapt their skill sets and evolve a new IT strategy in response to post-crisis challenges. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 6, 2006
Leslie Kramer |
CIO Challenge: IT Portfolio Management CIOs at financial services firms constantly are looking for ways to run their IT departments more efficiently. But figuring out a way to measure the benefits of IT portfolio management is not always obvious. |
Insurance & Technology
September 23, 2009
Rod Travers |
Your Attention, Please: Insurance CIOs Must Focus on Core Capabilities and Minimize Distractions While every company has unique needs, there are a few areas of focus that just about every CIO should be thinking about. |
CIO
March 15, 2004 |
Ruthless Strategies - Q&A | Amir Hartman It's been a rough few years, but some companies have managed to thrive. Why? Because their leaders know how to steer their enterprises out of adversity. Best-selling author and turnaround artist Amir Hartman tells you how you can come out on top. |
Insurance & Technology
April 9, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Q&A With Gary Plotkin, CIO, P&C Operations, The Hartford Gary Plotkin describes his role as CIO, P&C Operations, at The Hartford and discusses topics including enterprise architecture competency, project manager development and CIO-business partnership. |
CIO
November 1, 2002
Susan H. Cramm |
The Business Knows Best You can never be smarter than your internal customers. |
CIO
February 23, 2010 |
Battling Lack of IT Understanding CIOs debate the causes of business misconceptions of IT and how to educate stakeholders. |
Information Today
November 25, 2014 |
New Resource Explains Challenges and Opportunities for Information Governance The Centre for International Governance Innovation published a resource on the challenges and opportunities for global internet policy and governance. |
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
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... |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 30, 2004
Robert S. Kaplan |
Mapping Your Board's Effectiveness To be effective, board members must understand their company's strategy. This Harvard professor offers methods for using the Balanced Scorecard and strategy maps to increase board power. |
Insurance & Technology
April 20, 2010
Kim Root |
Simplicity Can Lead to a More Efficient Infrastructure Companies must simplify their portfolios while increasing agility throughout the selective deployment of new technical capabilities and architectural styles. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 1, 2005
Christopher Wrenn |
Infrastructure Integration Many corporations are daunted by the challenges of integrating their technology infrastructures with their business processes. In the end, however, the benefits are worth the risks. Here are four recommendations for success when undertaking an enterprisewide integration project. |
Global Services
March 6, 2008 |
Enabling Better Business & IT Alignment What will set apart great business leaders is the ability to adapt to and manage change well. Here are some tips for selecting and managing multiple IT service providers |
CIO
January 6, 2009
Carrie Mathews |
How to Land a Board Position For those CIOs who seek to serve, there are several ways to go about snagging a board position. |
Insurance & Technology
June 1, 2006
Poniatowski & Wichser |
A Better Metric For IT Efficiency Even the most efficient IT function can't be considered excellent unless it's doing the things that really matter to the company. |
Bank Systems & Technology
September 24, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Bank CIOs Must Continue to Innovate While Cutting Costs More than ever before, bank CIOs must do more with less, continuing to provide business value through technology innovation while also finding ways to improve efficiency. |
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Martin C. VanDerSchouw |
Who Owns Your Strategy? The author outlines four steps to help organizations succeed with their business strategies. |
