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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

CIO Challenges and Opportunities

Despite ample evidence that the world at large and CEOs in particular want CIOs to elevate their game beyond technology stewardship, some have their head in the cloud! This presentation provides a timely reminder that for the CIO to be relevant, the name of the game is: get on the CEOs agenda!

February 22, 2012

Is This A Time of Opportunity for the CIO?

This CIO survey polled over a hundred and fifty CIOs from every business sector to shed light on the trends and outlook for the IT function. The conclusion? "faced with increasing competitive pressures, accelerating decision cycles and a new generation of tech savvy users, companies are looking to their CIOs as advisors and agents for business responsiveness, agility and collaboration."

February 21, 2012

Unleasing the CIO Performance

The author presents a framework for CIO performance arguing that IT’s contribution to business results or a CIO’s performance is not just contingent upon their capability but also on other factors – some of which are directly related to others in the C-Suite.

October 20, 2011

Clarifying the Role of the CIO

The authors propose that there are five different models/types of CIOs – utility, evangalist, innovator, facilitator, and agile – and the best one for an organization is determined by the role IT plays in business strategy and leadership maturity.

October 18, 2011

The Essential CIO

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

May 19, 2011

The Role of the CIO

This academic paper discusses the skills and responsibilities of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) role.

April 8, 2011

CIO Strategies for Success

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.

March 25, 2011

Managing Executive Transitions

 Managing Executive Transitions is a handbook for organizations that face or are going through an executive transition. 

January 21, 2011
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