Rewarding Performance While Containing Costs
This study examines how organizations are rewarding performance in a cost containment business climate.
This study examines how organizations are rewarding performance in a cost containment business climate.
This paper discusses a strategic performance management model to help business leaders dramatically reduce financial loss from employee activity not being correctly aligned with the business goals
This whitepaper argues that unmotivated employees create problems but motivated employees unable to turn their enthusiasm into action can be even worse! The solution? Connect employee surveys with business strategy; measure employee engagement but do not forget other key performance drivers…

This analysis reviews multiple leadership models and their application in enhancing organizational effectiveness, offering a path to integrated leadership strategies.
How are technology leaders helping their organizations adapt to the accelerating change and complexity that mark today’s competitive and economic landscape? For CIOs, what are the challenges and opportunities of this increasing complexity? To find out, IBM spoke in person with 3,018 CIOs, spanning 71 countries and 18 industries. The
This academic paper discusses the skills and responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role.
This article highlights the developing role of the chief information officer (CIO) – an increasingly significant business role that has developed in recent years from being a technically-oriented support function to a commercially-focused part of the business.
This article provides insights about what CEOs expect of the CIO and the IT function, drawing on interviews with CEOs of high technology companies located in Silicon Valley. Actions by senior IT executives to more closely align their behaviors with those expected by CEOs are offered. Although our discussion is aimed at CIOs or other senior IT executives, the recommendations are of value to all managers within the IT function.
This paper describes the threats to CIO job security and suggests strategies for addressing them. It argues that a major cause of perceived CIO failures is that IT professionals and business managers have such different expectations for how long things should take, that IT may be perceived as non-responsive even when it is doing a superb job with the available technology.
This presentation discusses the role and responsibilities of an innovation leader – do CIOs fit the bill?