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Understanding IT Leadership: An Analysis of CIO Priorities

This analysis investigates how CIOs prioritize leadership attributes using Q-methodology. It reveals four distinct leadership styles, providing valuable insights for IT leaders aiming to enhance their leadership strategies and drive organizational success.

Five Disciplines of the New CIO

This whitepaper discusses the five key disciplines – skills – that a Chief Information Officer (CIO) must master in order to deliver business value.

The Role of the CIO: Identifying and Bridging the Skills Gap

This in depth research surveyed CIOs and C-Suite executives to develop a picture of the changing role of the CIO: What are the key skills needed for the CIO role? How do current CIOs fare? What skill gaps must a CIO bridge so they are relevant? What are the impediments

What Makes Team Work?

This paper summarizes research done on team effectiveness. This material is dated but a good read.

IT Leadership During A Crisis

This paper examines IT leadership during a crisis – how do leaders in IT organizations leverage business solutions, implement governance and security controls, identify potential risks and develop strategic steps to solve these problems.

Top Ten Challenges for CIOs

The authors argue that successful CIOs must manage both the quality of delivery of IT services and their cost. The paper lists the top ten challenges faced by CIOs in 2010 and the decade after.

Emerging Role of the Mid-Market CIO

This research study tracks the evolution of the CIO role from the back office maven to technology driven strategic business leader. It highlights the characteristics of this new role, challenges it faces and the changes still to come.

How Consumerization of IT is Changing the CIO Role

Today’s employee is tech savvy and armed to the teeth with gadgets – each day this horde grows with new, increasingly more sophisticated devices! How is the CIO to cope with this trend? Is it changing the role of the CIO itself? This research provides insights into this issue – the fundamental drivers of IT consumerization and how the CIO can embrace that force for the good of both the enterprise and the user.

The Value Creating CIO

The authors describe a shift in value creation opportunities in the enterprise and make the case for a different response from and skills of a chief information officer (CIO).

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