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CIO July 1, 2004 Christopher Koch |
The Sarbox Conspiracy Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts are eating up CIO time and budgets. Worse, CIOs are being relegated to a purely tactical role. And that may be the CFO's plan. |
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 May 15, 2003 Ben Worthen |
Your Risks and Responsibilities You may think the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has nothing to do with you, the CIO. You'd be wrong. |
CIO June 15, 2004 Jeanne Ross & Peter Weill |
Recipe for Good Governance MIT research has found that good IT governance leads to better return on assets for companies. But what makes for good governance? Here are the ingredients. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 5, 2004 Weill & Ross |
Ten Principles of IT Governance You've invested heavily in technology, but where is the payoff? This excerpt from the new book IT Governance distills keys to creating greater value from IT. |
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 July 15, 2005 Thomas Wailgum |
How Stars Are Made Great CIOs are made, not born. A leadership development program is well worth the cost. |
CIO September 15, 2003 Lauren Gibbons Paul |
Birth of a Salesman It's not only about golf and cocktails any more. To successfully sell IT, CIOs must align projects with customer needs and then prove they delivered value. Better learn these eight essential sales techniques -- your budget may be at stake. |
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. |
CIO January 5, 2015 Kim S. Nash |
CIOs Need to Snap Out of Complacency Your business colleagues aren't as impressed with you as you are. Our 14th annual State of the CIO research rewrites your priorities for 2015. |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2005 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
The Evolving CIO Increasingly, today's banking CIOs are called upon to achieve corporate objectives as partners of the business. As a result, strategy has become as much a part of the job as technology, according to these experts. |
CIO January 1, 2014 Kim S. Nash |
State of the CIO 2014: The Great Schism Digital strategist or traditional CIO? Our 13th annual State of the CIO research reveals the great career divide. |
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 May 1, 2004 Stephanie Overby |
What It Means to Run IT Like a Business Evolving from a cost center, IT is taking on the character, rigor and practices of a business within a business. It won't be easy, but for CIOs it's a matter of survival. |
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. |
CIO January 15, 2004 |
Inbox Thoughts on Obstacles to a CIO's Success |
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 January 1, 2001 Sarah D. Scalet & Lafe Low |
Come Together CIO brought together three IT leaders and three business leaders to decide on the best ways to get in step. |
CIO May 1, 2004 Pastore & Ware |
The Best Best Practices CIO Research reveals the basic building blocks of IT as a business. |
CIO June 1, 2002 Derek Slater |
Strategic Planning Don'ts (and Dos) As you write your company's next IT strategic plan, don't repeat these classic mistakes. Understand why it's a mistake to ignore strategic planning; Learn what not to do when writing a strategic plan -- and why; Discover the ways some CIOs are aligning business plans with IT strategy |
CFO March 15, 2004 Laton McCartney |
The Great Divide Or, what your CIO would really like to say to you if only the job market were better. |
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 October 15, 2001 Eric Berkman |
You Go First Tread carefully: Being the first CIO a company has ever had can be perilous -- or it can be a career-defining opportunity. Identify the perils of being the first to serve as CIO. Determine the career opportunities that come with being first... |
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 12, 2011 Stephanie Overby |
IT Value Is Dead. Long Live Business Value. Business outcomes from technology investments are all that really matter. The CIO's challenge is finding new ways to prove IT's worth. |
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 September 15, 2002 Christopher Koch |
The Powers That Should Be IT decisions have to reflect the goals of the business and engage the attention of the business, often without the participation or even the interest of the business. Sound hard? It is. But here's what you can do to make it easier. |
CIO October 1, 2003 Megan Santosus |
Secrets to Managing Techies IT employees are different. Here's how to lead them. |
CIO July 16, 2010 |
Team Up for Business Value In this CIO 100 Award-winning initiative, Hess CIO Jeff Steinhorn created metrics and governance with vendors to boost outsourcing value. |
CIO May 1, 2004 Alice Dragoon |
The Secret Weapon: Internal Marketing Marketing IT's achievements will improve its alignment, create transparency and might even help win approval for your next $2 million project. |
CIO December 11, 2008 Kim S. Nash |
What It Takes to Succeed Now as a CIO Making business processes more efficient and end users more productive isn't enough to succeed as a CIO in today's economy, according to our 2009 State of the CIO survey. |
CIO March 15, 2003 Chris Lofgren |
The Importance of Being Influential Schneider National's CEO says IT is too important to business today for the CIO to be seen but not heard. |
CIO January 27, 2015 Adam Hartung |
For CIOs, Joining a Board Requires Role Reversal Even if you aren't currently being pursued to fill a board seat, understanding the different roles should help you be better prepared for making board presentations. |
CIO June 1, 2003 Megan Santosus |
A Successful Switcheroo CIOs find it hard work to change industries, but groundwork and speed make it possible. |
CIO March 1, 2002 Eric Berkman |
Skills - The State of the CIO Successful CIOs stress business acumen, not technical expertise... |
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 November 15, 2001 Polly Schneider Traylor |
IT Takes Two These days, it's hard for one person to fill the CIO's shoes. Some organizations are finding that an operations-focused deputy CIO is just the ticket... |
CIO January 2, 2013 |
CIOs Getting Better at People Skills Our annual checkup on the state of the CIO shows improvement in the leadership skills required to achieve great things for business peers and external customers, says Maryfran Johnson |
CFO March 17, 2003 Russ Banham |
The Power of 3 One way to bridge the CFO-CIO divide: Bring a third party into the conversation. |
CIO August 27, 2010 Martha Heller |
Stop Educating the Business and Start Delivering Value When it comes to convincing executives of IT's value, CIOs need to stop explaining what they're doing and just do it. |
CIO August 20, 2010 Thomas Wailgum |
The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead It's make-or-break transformation time for CIOs. Those who can only take orders are being ousted. Those who seek to become true strategic business leaders should concentrate on four key areas. |
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 June 15, 2006 Paul Ingevaldson |
Getting in Sync Your reputation as an IT leader depends on your ability to align with end users. |
CIO November 21, 2013 Kim S. Nash |
CIOs Must Learn the Politics of No CIOs may have good reason to reject a proposal or nix a technology request, but an inept or frequent 'no' will get you sidelined. |
CIO September 15, 2003 Lauren Gibbons Paul |
What They're Saying About You IT staffers have a clear message for their bosses: CIOs better take a break from their budgets and their executive meetings and pay a lot more attention to staff morale. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes |
New CIO Role: Change Warrior Effective CIOs can move the rest of the company to do things differently. |
CIO October 31, 2011 Martha Heller |
Learning to Understand IT CIOs who come from the business have discovered the importance of IT and know how to share that new perspective with peers. |
CIO April 1, 2003 Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
What You Have to Say - Survey Results A year after our first "State of the CIO" survey, more than 500 IT leaders tell us they're spending more time on alignment and less time on staffing and new technologies. And, needless to say, they're still wrestling with scarce resources. |
CIO April 1, 2003 Prewitt & Overby |
The Importance of Being Strategic Keeping your nose to the grindstone is a sure way to grind your nose off. |