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CIO
October 1, 2005
Carrie Mathews |
How to Involve the Business to Create a Solid Continuity Plan Best practices for CIOs for not only making sure technical disaster-recovery plans are in place and working but also coordinating larger continuity efforts with all business functions.   |
CIO
February 23, 2010 |
Battling Lack of IT Understanding CIOs debate the causes of business misconceptions of IT and how to educate stakeholders. |
CIO
August 27, 2014 |
CIOs Share Their Secrets to Project Success How to balance traditional and unconventional approaches to keep IT projects on track and deliver on their promises. |
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
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. |
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. |
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
April 15, 2004
Kim Girard |
Something Ventured, Something Gained CIOs and venture capitalists are back together. VCs are eager for CIOs' insights on startups. CIOs get access to and influence over the latest technology. |
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
December 1, 2006
Carrie Mathews |
Planning Takes Planning Creating a strategic plan for IT can be a long and arduous process, and it can't be done in a vacuum; business input is essential. Here are tips on how to make strategic planning pay off. |
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. |
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
March 25, 2011
Michael Friedenberg |
Three CIO Forums for Peer-to-Peer Resources CIOs find guidance from their peers to be of the highest value. Here are three forums where CIOs can connect with one another. |
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
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. |
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
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
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
May 25, 2011
Drewry & Weiss |
The CIO of 2014: Venture Capitalist, Orchestra Conductor, Contract Negotiator Managing technology is becoming less important to the CIO role than managing change. |
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
May 1, 2006
Richard Pastore |
A Benchmark for the Strategic CIO The CIO Executive Council has developed a benchmark to define and measure the performance of the CIO role's strategic aspects. |
CIO
February 23, 2010 |
How to Turn IT Staff Into Business Participants Mazda CIO Jim DiMarzio says just getting into the business meetings isn't enough. |
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
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 |
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. |
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
August 26, 2009 |
Download Stakeholder Relationship Worksheet One CIO shares his method for tracking how to most effectively work with decision-making executives. |
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. |
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
July 16, 2010 |
Download Global Infrastructure Outsourcing Governance Model This process ensures constant joint oversight from Hess Corporation and its infrastructure vendor. |
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
July 29, 2011
Martha Heller |
How to Succeed at Innovation Three CIO 100 winners share their tips and tricks for creating innovative business value. |
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
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. |
CIO
March 1, 2002 |
The 2002 State of the CIO Survey Our survey findings highlight the fact that the CIO's time is spent more on strategy than pure technology... |
CIO
July 28, 2009 |
Mid-Market CIO Wish List for Vendors Although relationships between mid-market CIOs and their IT vendors have generally improved, there is still a significant disconnect between what CIOs want and what their vendors deliver. Top requests include tailoring offerings and better communication. |
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
November 14, 2012 |
CIOs Give Vendors Low Marks on Partnership A new index from the CIO Executive Council rates IT suppliers on 20 characteristics of truly strategic partners |
CIO
May 28, 2013
Martha Heller |
Energy Company's IT and Business Units Share Responsibility At Energy Future Holdings, CEO John Young emphasizes the human factors behind IT, supports standardization and expects the CIO to work with business partners. He comments on his leadership style. |
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
May 14, 2010 |
Restructuring IT for Global Results How three CIOs are redesigning their teams to grow with their companies. |
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
December 23, 2008
Carrie Mathews |
Corporate Boards: What You Need to Know Before Joining One Four CIOs share tips on how to make sitting on an outside board work for you. |
CIO
November 15, 2002
Paul Ingevaldson |
It's Not Your IT Portfolio-It's Theirs CIOs who think they should be in charge of selecting IT projects are asking for a very short career, according to Ace Hardware's CIO. |
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
September 23, 2009
Diane Frank |
CEO Sweet Talk When money is tight and staff members are stressed, it's more essential than ever for CIOs to have a game plan for what to do when there's a new personality with new priorities in the top office. |
CIO
January 6, 2009
Carrie Mathews |
How to Land a Board Position For those CIOs who seek to serve, there are several ways to go about snagging a board position. |
CIO
January 15, 2004 |
Inbox Thoughts on Obstacles to a CIO's Success |
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 |
CIO
April 22, 2010
Martha Heller |
How to Make Time for Strategy Five strategic CIOs explain how to extricate yourself from the tactical weeds of operations. |
