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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 January 15, 2004 |
Federal CIOs: Vision vs. Reality During an October 2003 webcast on e-government sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government, Steve Cooper, CIO of the Department of Homeland Security, was asked about the federal agency CIO role.  |
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 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 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 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  |
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 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 November 15, 2001 Polly Schneider Traylor |
IT Takes Two These days, it's hard for one person to fill the CIO's shoes. Some organizations are finding that an operations-focused deputy CIO is just the ticket...  |
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 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, 2004 Pastore & Ware |
The Best Best Practices CIO Research reveals the basic building blocks of IT as a business.  |
CIO June 9, 2010 Richard Pastore |
Want to Be a CIO? Be Prepared to Answer These Questions CEOs want to learn how much a potential CIO is focused on business strategy and market growth. If you want the job, be ready to answer these questions.  |
CIO October 1, 2002 Susan H. Cramm |
A Letter to CXOs You have the IT capability you deserve.  |
CIO September 15, 2003 Todd Datz |
How to Launch a Leader Two IT managers, taking a cue from their leadership-evangelizing CIO, launch a grassroots program that brings leadership skills to the entire IT staff.  |
CIO November 30, 2009 |
Collaboration: Interaction Disconnect It is easier to set the goals for collaboration systems than to achieve the intended results.  |
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 January 30, 2013 Jesse Carrillo |
CIO Creates an 'Army of Me' to Visit Business Units The CIO at a global real-estate firm emphasizes strategic thinking as he develops the IT team of the future  |
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 January 2, 2013 |
CIOs Getting Better at People Skills Our annual checkup on the state of the CIO shows improvement in the leadership skills required to achieve great things for business peers and external customers, says Maryfran Johnson  |
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.  |
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 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 December 11, 2008 Kim S. Nash |
What It Takes to Succeed Now as a CIO Making business processes more efficient and end users more productive isn't enough to succeed as a CIO in today's economy, according to our 2009 State of the CIO survey.  |
Insurance & Technology October 12, 2004 Lisa Valentine |
Customer Advocate UnumProvident's Bob Best works at enabling the insurance business to think differently about its relationship with the customer.  |
CIO November 11, 2009 Kim S. Nash |
The Top Line Interview: Betsy Burton A distinguished analyst at Gartner fast-forwards to the future of the CIO.  |
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 1, 2003 Megan Santosus |
CIOs in a Class by Themselves Leadership training courses target what's different about IT execs  |
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 December 15, 2011 Weiss & Drewry |
Three Easy Ways to Get Better at the Hard Stuff Soft skills are important too -- especially in hard times, when leaders must be more open and engaged  |
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 May 1, 2013 Stephanie Overby |
CIOs Struggle with the Great Talent Hunt Finding IT pros with business skills has always been a bear. So award-winning CIOs are taking radical steps to train, recruit or grow the hybrid staff they covet.  |
CIO July 1, 2003 Megan Santosus |
Office Discipline: Why You Need a Project Management Office Companies seeking more efficiency and tighter monitoring of IT projects are opening project management offices in growing numbers. But don't expect a quick fix, easy metrics or an immediate payback.  |
CIO December 17, 2009 Maryfran Johnson |
Alignment 2010 What's in store for 2010 business/IT alignment.  |
CIO October 21, 2008 Jarina D'Auria |
2008 CIO Hall of Fame Meet the the 12 extraordinary men and women of the 2008 CIO Hall of Fame.  |
CIO July 30, 2014 |
New Executive Skill Sets Emerge in CIO 100 Award Winners IDG CEO Michael Friedenberg spots a trio of skills that signal greater business success for IT: marketing, market knowledge and communication.  |
CIO October 12, 2012 Maryfran Johnson |
What It Takes to Improve CIO Tenure CIOs, with their 5-year average tenure, are on the low end of the spectrum when compared to the longevity of their colleagues in the C-suite.  |
CIO January 1, 2002 Tom Field |
How to Know When It's Time to Leave Advice for CIO's on knowing when it is time to look for another company to work for.  |
Insurance & Technology October 9, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell |
Identifying the Insurance & Technology Elite 8 Insurance CIO Insurance industry analysts discuss what characteristics distinguish the most successful senior insurance technology executives deserving of recognition.  |
CIO January 1, 2006 Becky Blalock |
Playing Nice in the IT Sandbox Building a leadership team that trusts one another should be your first priority as the new boss. Here's how one CIO pulled it off.  |
CIO June 1, 2005 Levinson & Pastore |
Seeing Is Believing Three case studies demonstrate how service-level agreements, chargeback and the Balanced Scorecard help create transparency and better align IT with the business.  |
CIO October 10, 2008 Diane Frank |
How to Renegotiate an Outsourcing Contract CIO tips for getting what you want from the vendor.  |
CIO April 1, 2003 Prewitt & Overby |
The Importance of Being Strategic Keeping your nose to the grindstone is a sure way to grind your nose off.  |
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 September 28, 2012 |
Big Value from Big Data How CIOs are expanding the benefits that business intelligence can bring the enterprise.  |
CIO April 28, 2011 Diane Frank |
Step up to the Leadership Challenge TeleTech's Carol Kline became a CIO to create big business opportunities with technology.  |
CIO May 1, 2011 Kim S. Nash |
Secrets to Building a Deeper Bench Is your team lacking leadership depth? This year's Ones to Watch honorees prove hands-on experience and a personal touch builds a stronger group of IT managers.  |
CIO July 15, 2003 Christopher Hoenig |
You Know Where You Want to Go The simple path to leadership.  |
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 October 15, 2003 Martha Heller |
Portfolio Management A take on the nagging question that lurks within the consciousness of most CIOs: How do I know I'm working on the right projects?  |