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Wall Street & Technology
November 17, 2003 |
Step Wisely Is it difficult for your organization to prioritize projects? According to Ray Trotta, author of the newly published, "Translating Strategy into Shareholder Value," projects should be prioritized according to the shareholder value they can achieve.   |
Insurance & Technology
June 1, 2006
Poniatowski & Wichser |
A Better Metric For IT Efficiency Even the most efficient IT function can't be considered excellent unless it's doing the things that really matter to the company. |
CIO
June 1, 2004
Art Jahnke |
Why Is Business-IT Alignment So Difficult? CIOs cite alignment of IT and business as one of their greatest challenges. Readers discuss the problem and some solutions. |
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
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
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
July 1, 2004
Gary Beach |
Dream On In 2005 and beyond, companies that have CIOs who dream big will outperform companies that have CIOs who are asleep at the "return on investment" wheel. |
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
June 24, 2009 |
How to Save Your Strategic Rights The CIO of Santander Consumer USA convinced the business to keep him on the IT strategic team. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2001
Tom Kirtland |
Investors Can Only Value What They See If REIT shares are undervalued, it is partly because the information investors receive through corporate reports has become less relevant in terms of what is needed to make a proper assessment... |
CRM
November 30, 2010
Juan Martinez |
Is Social Media ROI for Real? The ROI of Social Media Marketing: Forrester Research has developed a social media marketing scorecard that could end the ROI dilemma. |
CIO
September 29, 2015
Adam Hartung |
Today's CIO is in a great position to be a future CEO COOs and CFOs do pretty much what they did in the 1980s. But IT chiefs have evolved to become strategic thinkers who can guide their companies to the digital future. |
CIO
August 30, 2012
Maryfran Johnson |
Why Some CIOs Earn the Big Bucks CIOs can earn big time bonuses when their businesses meet financial goals. Our editor in chief weighs in on our exclusive research into CIO pay. |
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
January 1, 2001
Lee Pender |
How to Communicate Value - I.T. Value Translating IT into business value requires constant chats across corporate aisles. |
CIO
May 15, 2002
Eric Berkman |
How to Use Balanced Scorecard You can't tell when you're winning if you don't keep score. The Balanced Scorecard helps track your company's strategic hits and misses... |
CIO
July 15, 2002
Tracy Mayor |
A Buyer's Guide to IT Value Methodologies It's entirely possible to quantify, qualify and prioritize the ways IT contributes to the bottom line. Here's a roundup of several tools to help you do just that. |
CIO
January 15, 2002
Ken Denman |
Bottom-Line Redux When budgets come under fire, CIOs should mimic their peers... |
CIO
June 9, 2010
Richard Pastore |
Want to Be a CIO? Be Prepared to Answer These Questions CEOs want to learn how much a potential CIO is focused on business strategy and market growth. If you want the job, be ready to answer these questions. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Re-examining Stock Options as a Way to Compensate Executives Now that an underperforming stock market and the excesses of Enron have focused new attention on the use and abuse of stock options as a way to incentivize senior managers, what changes, if any, should companies make in their design of compensation packages? |
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
July 30, 2015
Adam Dennison |
CIOs are cutting back on the number of 'strategic' vendors they use In the past four years large enterprises (those with more than 1,000 employees) have reduced the number of vendors they consider to be strategic partners from six to three, on average. |
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
February 1, 2004
Susan H. Cramm |
Charm School for CIOs Why being nice is your foremost task |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Marketers Turn to Metrics to Measure the Impact of Their Initiatives The search for better marketing metrics is underway throughout Corporate America. Marketing executives are devoting more attention than ever to ways in which they can link traditional marketing variables to hard-core financial concepts, such as a company's stock price or ROI. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 1, 2003
Jim Heskett |
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable? In his newly published book, Authentic Leadership, Bill George reopens this question, based in part on his former role as CEO of a highly respected S&P 500 U.S. corporation. |
CIO
May 1, 2003
Mohanbir Sawhney |
How to Keep Your Customers Satisfied To learn if end users are happy, you have to ask the right people -- and the right questions. |
CIO
November 15, 2001 |
Are you a core or context CIO? Core means business processes that create new business opportunities. Context is everything else. In Moore's view, CIOs spend way too much time on context and way too little time on core... |
CIO
February 15, 2004
Michael Schrage |
The Metrics Trap Too many CIOs judge implementations by measuring the technical capacity of a project, instead of considering how it has improved their companies' business. |
CIO
January 1, 2001
Stewart Deck |
Memo from the CFO Here's some strategic advice for CIOs entering those all-important budget meetings. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
October 27, 2005
Leslie Kramer |
CIO Challenge - Measuring IT's Value To ensure that IT dollars are spent wisely, business executives often require CIOs to quantify the return on technology investments. But ROI isn't always the best measure of an IT project's value. To prove IT's worth, many CIOs are employing new metrics. |
CIO
July 15, 2002
Derek Slater |
Get in Touch with Your Inner CFO How can the CIO and CFO quit arguing and come together? Who better to tell us than leaders who have lived both roles simultaneously. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 8, 2003 |
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable? Readers Respond It is imperative for each board to state its guiding principles publicly in advance of any pressing decision... When the board deviates from long- and short-term shareholder interests, it creates a vacuum that no other part of the corporation can fill.... etc. |
CIO
May 12, 2011
Maryfran Johnson |
It's Time for CIOs to Get in the Game Business alignment is no longer the conversation, finds CIO magazine editor in chief. Today's top IT executives know it's all about creating business value. |
CRM
October 18, 2004
Joshua Weinberger |
Metrics Should Define Results Setting benchmarks to determine the success of a CRM initiative is a must. The metrics that matter most are those taken when agents are serving customers. |
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
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
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
September 15, 2001
Gary Beach |
Power to the CIOs CIOs are putting their lofty existence in peril... |
Pharmaceutical Executive
September 1, 2014
William Looney |
13 Years Right Pharm Exec's latest Industry Audit sticks to the series' longtime standard of emphasizing transparent indicators of shareholder value. |
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
March 1, 2002
Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
Salary CIOs comfortably crack six figures but still take home a lot less than other executives... |
CIO
September 1, 2005
Gary Beach |
How to Sell As CIOs are tasked with helping to grow the business, they need to become adept at selling IT. So here's some advice for CIOs embarking on that challenge. |
CFO
October 1, 2009 |
Giving It Away Readers write to discuss the meaning of "shareholder value" and the need for CFOs to incorporate new "hard numbers" into human-resources analytics. |
CIO
October 1, 2003
Jack Keen |
Wanted: Metric Skeptics Accepting vague or irrelevant numbers for project value can lead to bad IT spending decisions. |
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
August 30, 2012
Kim S. Nash |
CIO Pay Tied to Overall Business Success Our exclusive research reveals how much top-tier CIOs' compensation rises and falls with their companies' fortunes. |
Bank Technology News
April 2003
Holly Sraeel |
Focus on ROI Stifling Business Results? Could Be. The ROI mantra is so pervasive within institutions that it's impeding business growth. That and the fact that timeframe -- three to six months -- is ridiculous. |
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. |
