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CIO
May 1, 2003
Todd Datz |
How to Do It Right - Portfolio Management Portfolio management is a tool with clear benefits, among them a holistic view of IT projects across the enterprise and the alignment of IT with corporate strategy. But it isn't easy. We've found some portfolio managers willing to share their secrets.   |
CIO
May 1, 2003
Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
Manage IT as a Portfolio Portfolio management compares technology investments in terms of risk and payoff to the business and then helps you prioritize investments accordingly. Survey results show that CIOs who practice IT portfolio management get a higher value from their IT dollars. |
CIO
March 15, 2004 |
Ruthless Strategies - Q&A | Amir Hartman It's been a rough few years, but some companies have managed to thrive. Why? Because their leaders know how to steer their enterprises out of adversity. Best-selling author and turnaround artist Amir Hartman tells you how you can come out on top. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 6, 2006
Leslie Kramer |
CIO Challenge: IT Portfolio Management CIOs at financial services firms constantly are looking for ways to run their IT departments more efficiently. But figuring out a way to measure the benefits of IT portfolio management is not always obvious. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 22, 2005
Gil Makleff |
Making the CIO's Role Viable Managing hundreds of IT projects is no easy task, but strategies such as project portfolio management (PPM) can ease the burden on CIOs. |
CIO
May 1, 2003
Richard Pastore |
The Case for Portfolio Management If CIOs would just look at the business case for portfolio management, maybe more of them would do it. |
CIO
February 15, 2002
Christopher Lindquist |
IT Needs Leadership The Meta Group's report, "The CIO Desk Reference: Critical Competencies Every CIO Must Master," states that CIOs must look beyond day-to-day operations and gain skills in areas such as IT portfolio management and value management. |
CIO
April 15, 2004
Jon Surmacz |
Your CEO Still Doesn't Get IT More than two-thirds of CIOs say that their CEOs view IT as a cost of doing business--and not, unfortunately, as a business enabler. |
CIO
April 1, 2003
Marvin Balliet |
Getting the Twain to Meet A Merrill Lynch CFO offers four tried-and-true tools for establishing common business and technology goals. |
CIO
June 15, 2005
Michael Schrage |
Buttressing the Business CIOs should stop trying to achieve buy-in for IT initiatives and start helping business colleagues sell the projects themselves. |
CIO
August 15, 2003
Alice Dragoon |
Deciding Factors A strong, efficient governance process is practically the definition of resourcefulness. Put these governance practices to work to maximize the value of your IT projects and processes. |
Insurance & Technology
October 6, 2008
Nathan Conz |
2008's Elite 8 Describe the CIO of the Future What challenges will insurance CIOs of the next 10 years face? How will the role change? This year's Elite 8 honorees draw on their experience to answer the question: "What will the CIO job be 10 years from now?" |
CIO
February 1, 2004
Lauren Gibbons Paul |
How to Make Your Best Case As the great IT budget freeze begins to thaw, you must either sharpen your project presentation skills or be cut out of the loop. Take heart -- our five rules practically guarantee business case success. |
CIO
June 15, 2006
Catherine Aczel Boivie |
Red Light, Green Light How one CIO used project management discipline and the Traffic Light Report to align her IT department with her company's business goals. |
CIO
July 1, 2003
Megan Santosus |
Office Discipline: Why You Need a Project Management Office Companies seeking more efficiency and tighter monitoring of IT projects are opening project management offices in growing numbers. But don't expect a quick fix, easy metrics or an immediate payback. |
CIO
March 15, 2004
Martha Heller |
Six Smart Strategies for Handling the Help Desk - The Exchange Members of the Best Practice Exchange offer ways to make the most of your understaffed help desk. |
CIO
June 1, 2006
Meridith Levinson |
When Failure Is Not an Option Five years ago, almost half of A.G. Edwards' IT projects were late and over budget. Now it boasts an 88% project success rate. How did it do that? By galvanizing IT, reinventing its PMO, and relying on a standard framework to track projects and create accountability. |
CIO
January 1, 2006
Allan Holmes |
The Changing CIO Role: The Dual Demands of Strategy and Execution How - and why - your job has changed since the first "State of the CIO" report in 2002. |
CIO
January 28, 2010 |
CIOs as Business Leaders Bayer CIO Claudio Abreu urges more CIOs to cultivate business leadership credibility in their industries by getting closer to their markets |
CIO
October 27, 2010
Lauren Brousell |
Strategic CIOs Struggle to Achieve Ambitions A new survey from the CIO Executive Council suggests that while CIOs aspire to be strategic leaders, they lack the time and appropriately trained staff to move out of an operational role. |
CIO
November 2, 2011
Diane Frank |
How CIOs Build Bridges With Other C-Level Execs Top-notch CIOs are boosting IT's reputation and forming stronger relationships with other business leaders. |
Wall Street & Technology
February 4, 2005
Anthony Guerra |
Managing Technology Chief information officers are embracing a new way of managing the projects that take place throughout their vast domains: viewing them as if they are part of a financial portfolio, with each project representing an investment that has its own goals and risks. |
CIO
April 15, 2004
Martha Heller |
The Top 10 Drivers for Innovation Council members offer up their own ways of fostering an innovative culture. |
CIO
May 14, 2010 |
Restructuring IT for Global Results How three CIOs are redesigning their teams to grow with their companies. |
CIO
October 1, 2001
Scott Berinato |
Do the Math Learn how a 50-year-old technique is helping CIOs align IT and manage its value. Understand why portfolio management gives CIOs a stronger voice at the executive level. Learn why IT is no longer special -- and why you should be glad... |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 11, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard An excellent strategy often fades from memory as an organization tackles day-to-day operations issues. |
CIO
June 15, 2003
Todd Datz |
6 Habits of Highly Effective CIOs For top CIOs, alignment is not a goal. It's a way of life. A list of tactics that you should adopt as your own. |
CIO
March 1, 2002
Kaplan & Prewitt |
The Future - The State of the CIO Four experts agree: The job is changing, with strategic planning becoming ever more central to the CIO role... |
CIO
August 26, 2009 |
How to Make IT-Business Alignment a Reality CIOs advise embedding IT staff in the business, focusing on business processes and leveraging business mentors. |
CIO
December 23, 2009
Martha Heller |
How IT is Set Up to Fail It's time to recognize the inherent CIO paradox and start fighting back. |
CIO
October 15, 2008
Robert Fecteau |
Teaching Future CIOs the Ropes The CIO of BAE Systems' Customer Solutions group shares his method for encouraging and training potential successors. |
CIO
August 27, 2010 |
Download Tips for Women, From Women, on Advancing in IT Female IT executives provide their top professional and personal advice for women in all stages of their technology leadership career. |
CIO
September 1, 2005
Susan Cramm |
Research You Can Use CIOs need business justifications for IT projects beyond financials, such as cycle time or customer retention. Help them understand what kind of research you really need to align with business. |
CIO
May 30, 2012 |
Getting More Business Value Out of Vendors How CIOs are rebooting vendors' mind-sets to get away from the same old outsourcing contracts |
CIO
April 1, 2006
Martha Heller |
So You Want to Get Into 'The Business'? Some practical advice for moving out of the CIO role. |
CIO
December 18, 2009 |
Communicating IT Value CIOs at Eaton, Bain and Thomson Reuters market IT value by emphasizing operations, teaming on strategy and getting staff comfortable with the business |
CIO
March 1, 2014
Mary K. Pratt |
Up-and-Coming IT Leaders Focus on Business Customers Winners of the 2014 "Ones to Watch" awards -- administered by the CIO Executive Council -- say they're trying to reduce the distance between corporate IT and external customers. |
Insurance & Technology
May 8, 2009
Smallwood & Furtado |
The Right Projects at the Right Time By linking business strategy to business processes and then to IT investments, insurers can maximize ROI while controlling costs and remaining competitive in the marketplace. |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Raghavan Rajaji |
How to Get Your Budget Approved CFOs look for certain things in a good IT budget. Here's what yours should -- and shouldn't -- include... |
CIO
January 1, 2001
Stewart Deck |
Memo from the CFO Here's some strategic advice for CIOs entering those all-important budget meetings. |
CIO
October 1, 2005
Thomas Wailgum |
The Rules of IT There are rules for school, dating, taxes - and now IT. Three CIOs have created rules for their staffs to follow. |
CIO
November 2, 2010
Maryfran Johnson |
Advice For CIOs: Beyond the Obvious CIOs who mean business and the lessons they learned that helped them succeed. |
CIO
October 28, 2013 |
Good Governance Is a Make-or-Break Factor for IT CIOs say that governance rules will ensure that IT initiatives are transparent, efficiently managed and provide maximum business impact. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 28, 2004
Gil Makleff |
Transparency in Tech Spending Transparency in spending corporate funds has been - until recently - "nice to have." The change from "nice to have" to "need to have now" has been well publicized, on the heels of fraud cases like those involving Enron and Worldcom, and it has crystallized in the form of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
CIO
February 23, 2010 |
CIOs are Gearing Up for Greater Success Using smart investment and leveraging enterprise decisions, CIOs are helping position their companies to come out of the downturn at full speed. |
Insurance & Technology
October 5, 2006
Barry Rabkin |
What Makes a Successful CIO? The CIOs who are most successful in the insurance industry are strong leaders and good businesspeople. |
CIO
July 1, 2005
Susannah Patton |
Getting the Word on Portfolio Management IT leaders can benefit from portfolio management because they face pressure to cut costs while providing more services. |
CIO
June 1, 2006
Sari Kalin |
Making IT Portfolio Management a Reality CIOs share strategies, tips and insights on making IT portfolio management a reality. |
Insurance & Technology
July 25, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Critical Path to Excellence If there's a secret to insurers' effective technology project management, it's genuine alignment of the business and IT. |
CIO
August 28, 2008
Michael Rapken |
How to Partner With the Business Reshape IT culture to partner strategically with the business. |
