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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.  |
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 January 27, 2010 Kristen Lamoreaux |
Hiring Managers: Personal Networks Hold Hiring Power for CIOs CIOs in the know have learned that paying regular attention to your personal network can produce tangible results when it comes time to hire direct reports  |
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 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 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 March 31, 2009 |
Women CIOs & the Art of Influence A best practices survey report from the CIO executive council's executive women in IT group.  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 February 1, 2004 Susan H. Cramm |
Charm School for CIOs Why being nice is your foremost task  |
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 October 15, 2001 Susan H. Cramm |
Software Insanity Break out of the software development cycle chaos...  |
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.  |
InternetNews January 23, 2006 Clint Boulton |
CIOs Line Up Top Issues in '06 Leveraging IT to help grow their company's business tops the agenda for Chief Information Officers, according to a survey of some 1,400 CIOs just released by Gartner.  |
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 October 1, 2002 Susan H. Cramm |
A Letter to CXOs You have the IT capability you deserve.  |
CIO February 23, 2010 |
Battling Lack of IT Understanding CIOs debate the causes of business misconceptions of IT and how to educate stakeholders.  |
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.  |
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 April 1, 2003 Stephanie Overby |
Worst Practices CIOs you don't want to emulate  |
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 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 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 September 28, 2012 |
Hey CIOs! Show Your CMO the Love The CIO-CMO relationship gap still persists, and IDG Enterprise's CEO Michael Friedenberg reiterates why a closer partnership is critical to both execs as well as the business.  |
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 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 2, 2011 Gary Beach |
Time Is Money: What CIOs Should Know About How they Spend Their Time Data provides clues to how CIOs manage their time and how well that aligns with their goals.  |
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, 2002 Edward Prewitt |
The State of the CIO The 2002 State of the CIO special report describes a job role in transition...  |
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 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 December 15, 2003 Charlie Feld |
IT Leadership in 2010 The skills that CIOs will need to win the game  |
CIO May 1, 2006 Richard Pastore |
A Benchmark for the Strategic CIO The CIO Executive Council has developed a benchmark to define and measure the performance of the CIO role's strategic aspects.  |
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 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 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  |
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 7, 2009 Chris Curran |
How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010 For long-term IT effectiveness, leaner planning processes will help CIOs spend more time leading, and less time planning.  |
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 January 27, 2010 Bergamo & Arriaga |
Rescue Mission: How To Grow Your Business With No Budget Former heads of IT from Liberty Mutual and Keystone Automotive offer advice for CIOs faced with trying to innovate on a reduced budget.  |
CIO January 1, 2001 Lee Pender |
How to Communicate Value - I.T. Value Translating IT into business value requires constant chats across corporate aisles.  |
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 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 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 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 June 14, 2011 Tracy Cashman |
How to Market IT More Effectively Companywide Tips for communicating IT's worth to the business.  |