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).
June 7, 2012
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Essential Resources on the Role of the CIO – Page 11
The Chief Information Officer’s Guide to Strategic Innovation
The CIO’s dilemma consists of two forces pushing the role and the business benefit in opposite directions. The first force is simplifying what used to be challenging. The second force clears the path for more strategic value and promises more clout and responsibility than CIOs have ever had before. The best CIOs are beginning to act as chief innovation and process officers.
June 7, 2012
Chief Information Officer (CIO) as Drivers of Organizational Performance
This research paper introduces a model that links the CIO role with organizational performance and highlights the critical factors contributing to the chief information officer (cio) role and ultimately, IT success.
June 7, 2012
High Impact CIO
What distinguishes a hi-impact CIO from their peers? The author presents the core characteristics that make the difference between also rans and CIOs who are seen by their business partners as being up to today’s challenges.
June 7, 2012
CIO Best Practices
This presentation defines the ideal CIO and compares them to CIOs in practice, discusses the challenges for CIOs to succeed and questions if they can.
June 7, 2012
CIO on the Executive Team
This chapter discusses getting the CIO role on the executive team – What role should the CIO possess? What are the CIO’s primary responsibilities? Where does the CIO sit in relation to other organizational leaders? And finally, what must the CEO do to help develop and nurture the CIO?
June 7, 2012
What Makes a CIO Effective?
The survey says: innovation, process, alignment!
April 28, 2012
The Changing Role of New IS/IT Leaders
This study compares leadership roles, individual characteristics and position characteristics of newly appointed IS/IT executives (those who have been in their position for two years or less) with established IS/IT executives…Survey results indicate that new leaders spend more time in the informational role and in the change-leader role than established leaders.
April 28, 2012
The Revolutionary CIO
The author argues for a revolutionary role for the CIO – not just business leaders or strategists that the evolution of the role envisages. In 2011, a CIO needs to be a revolutionary "because cloud, social computing and mobility are fundamentally disruptive capabilities, shaking up business models and transforming how business is done"<br /><br />Can a CIO be a revolutionary who "challenge old rules, break up established institutions and overthrow business as usual – in the name of the greater good."
April 28, 2012
Is CIO an IT Expert or a Business Executive?
This research thesis explored the factors affecting the Chief Information Officer (role) and the role of the IT organization in business strategy planning and execution. The research found that the CIO role has already evolved to that of a business leader. Now, the challenge is to manage the transition of IT oriented CIOs to business leaders with technical competency.
March 12, 2012