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.
May 13, 2013
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Resources for Managing Your Career
The “Managing Your Career” category is a valuable resource for CIOs, IT executives, and technology professionals, providing articles, guides, and resources focused on the essential skills and best practices for effectively managing and advancing your career in the IT industry. As part of our CIO Reference Library, this category offers insights and practical advice on navigating the dynamic world of IT, achieving professional growth, and making the most of your career opportunities.
By exploring this category, you will gain insights into:
- Essential career management skills for IT professionals, such as self-assessment, goal-setting, networking, personal branding, and continuous learning
- Strategies for identifying and pursuing career advancement opportunities within the IT industry, including certifications, advanced degrees, and leadership development programs
- Best practices for navigating common career challenges, such as job transitions, work-life balance, and overcoming obstacles in your professional growth
- Techniques for staying current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and new skills to remain competitive and relevant in the ever-changing IT landscape
- Approaches for cultivating a solid professional network, leveraging mentorship, and building relationships that can help you advance in your career
- Case studies, success stories, and lessons learned from IT leaders and industry experts on effective career management and achieving professional growth
- The evolving role of IT professionals in the age of digital transformation, automation, and emerging technologies, and the implications for career management and growth
By staying up-to-date with the latest Managing Your Career resources, CIOs, IT leaders, and aspiring professionals can gain valuable insights, practical guidance, and information on how to excel in their roles and advance their careers. Visit this category regularly to discover new content that will help you stay current with industry trends, develop your career management skills, and succeed in the dynamic world of IT.
This analysis is a must-read for CIOs and IT leaders aiming to transform their organizations through strategic, technology-driven innovation. It explains how successful companies, termed "Innovation Accelerators," leverage the power of IT to enhance customer engagement, modernize business models, and achieve competitive differentiation. The document outlines six key characteristics of these high-performing organizations and provides practical strategies for CIOs to move beyond operational tasks and become core drivers of business strategy and transformation.
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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
April 9, 2013
Executive Career Development Guide: Strategic Steps to Achieve Your Professional Goals
This Executive Career Development Guide outlines a comprehensive plan for executives to achieve their career goals through strategic planning and preparation.
March 11, 2013
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.
October 25, 2012
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.
June 11, 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
What Makes a CIO Effective?
The survey says: innovation, process, alignment!
April 28, 2012
CIO Priorities for 2012
This survey provides insights into CIO priorities for 2012 and beyond – what are CIOs being asked to work on? what are CIOs working on? Good insights into the CIO agenda for the year.
February 22, 2012
How can a CIO Drive Strategy?
This compilation of interviews with CIOs illustrates how they are transforming their role from that of technology head to business leader.
February 22, 2012
Meeting the CIO Challenge
IT organizations perceived as cost centers good for deploying and maintaining information technology applications and tools. This perception not only limits the role of the IT organization but also severely hinders its ability to create business value. How can a CIO change this perception and unleash the full power of IT to conceive, build and deploy a truly strategic capability that creates business value? That is a modern CIO’s challenge. This article discusses how to meet this challenge and turn it into an opportunity.
February 22, 2012