This is an in-depth analysis on the role of Chief Information Officers in optimizing IT management, emphasizing strategic improvements and effective governance.
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!
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."
CIO role has come a long way however, getting a seat at the executive table is a hard thing for CIOs in many organizations. This article provides a framework to assess an organization’s willingness to accept the CIO as an "equal" to their business counterparts, concluding that "dominant assumptions about IT in different areas of an enterprise can explain differences in CIO status"
This paper discusses the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) – the issues it faced in its infancy, current faces and is expected to face in the future – in the context of culture and alignment. 
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.
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.
This article discusses the emerging Chief Information Officer (CIO) role of business technology strategist and its relationship with the three traditional IT manager roles – informational, decisional and interpersonal.
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