
The Successful CIO: Skills, Criteria, Examples, and Evaluation of the CIO Role
This comprehensive analysis offers key insights into the evolving role of CIOs, showcasing how they can effectively drive business strategies and innovation.

This comprehensive analysis offers key insights into the evolving role of CIOs, showcasing how they can effectively drive business strategies and innovation.
In this insightful analysis, delve into the pivotal role of the CIO in modern businesses and the pressing need for them to be viewed as influential peers within the C-suite. This exploration reveals actionable strategies that can lead to optimal organizational performance.
This presentation introduces a framework to assess the performance of information technology managers. The author develops this framework leveraging other leadership assessment frameworks but tailors it for use with IT Managers (CIO, CTO, VP etc.). The approach is applied and results discussed.
Discover how the role of CIOs is transforming to include strategic business leadership, aligning IT strategies with business goals for enhanced organizational performance.
This paper discusses the journey – sometimes very rough! – of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role and their IT organizations they lead. What lies ahead? What are the new requirements being placed on the role? How can/should a CIO respond? The author discusses the options to structure the IT
This overview examines the pivotal shift in the role of CIOs towards strategic business leadership, outlining essential strategies for thriving in this new capacity.
<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">There are forces at play that might fundamentally change the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) – a better understanding of strengths and weaknesses of the current CIO role, the need for a business focused, strategy driven leader of the IT function, the advent of game changing technologies such as cloud computing and smart phones – so this research explores both the factors driving this change and their impact on the CIO role and IT Organization.</span><br />
This presentation charts the course for the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role – to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) or maybe even the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)? How does this evolution in the CIO role occur and what does it take? Here is the opinion of a CIO.
A CIO makes the case for the strategy focused Chief Information Officer (CIO). Increasingly, CIOs are being tapped for long term strategic business transformation initiatives – at the same time maintaining their day job of keeping the lights on in the IT shop – so a CIO has to be on the look-out for these opportunities or they might not foresee these business-changing opportunities inspired by strategic technology innovations. The resulting implications on their career are not very promising.
This paper discusses the role of the chief technology officer (CTO) as a technology focused leader who applies their technology skills to products, services and processes. The history of the CTO role is presented and its responsibilities detailed – by a CTO.