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Resources for Managing Your Career – Page 3

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

The Role of the CIO

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

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.

Managing Executive Transitions

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

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