Should CIOs Track Employee Happiness?
CIOs are being recruited by their companies to help find ways to measure the happiness of the company’s employees
Business
How Should CIOs Deal With Companies Who Don’t Do E-Commerce?
The T.J. Maxx CIO has a challenge on his hands as his management tells him to take it slow with e-commerce even as the store battles the Covid-19 virus
CIOs Ponder If They Should Ever Return To The Office
The person with the CIO job realizes that someday the Covid-19 pandemic will release its grip on our lives and we will return to the workplace. The question is: Will there be an office to go back to when this is all over? The changes the business world is considering offer a radical rethinking of … Read more
How IT and Business Can Work Together To Benefit The Customer
CIOs need to ask themselves why should the business and IT collaborate? Perhaps a better question is why wouldn’t they collaborate? We need to understand that business units like sales, marketing, and operations have direct interactions with customers that are enabled or empowered by technology — technology that’s typically managed and deployed by IT. CIOs … Read more
How CIOs Can Position The IT Department For Success
As the person with the CIO job, it’s your responsibility to make sure that the IT department is successful. In order to do that, you need to be able to lead the department in the right direction in order to realize the importance of information technology. What this means is that you have to plan, … Read more
How Are CIOs Failing Their Business Users?
Right now every CIO seems to be talking about the customer experience (CX). What CIOs have been told is that if you don’t get customer experience right, you may leave yourself vulnerable to competitors who do. However, CIOs who focus only or mostly on customers are forgetting something just as important: the employee experience (EX) … Read more
How A CIO Can Make An Inherited IT Department Better
As CIOs, some jobs are tougher than others. One of the most demanding is when you find yourself taking on a troubled IT department. This isn’t a job for the faint of heart. Your job will be to repair damage and put things back in order so that the company can realize the importance of … Read more
What Does It Take To Be The CIO At Walmart?
There are a lot of high profile CIO jobs out there. However, one of the ones that has the most attention being directed towards it is being the CIO at the gigantic retailer Walmart. Think about it – there is a Walmart in just about every town and we all go to Walmart every so … Read more
How Can The Enterprise Holding’s CIO Help The Company To Evolve?
You would think that being a CIO at a rental car company would be a pretty straight forward job. I mean, if you understand the importance of information technology and can keep track of the employees and the cars then you are pretty much on top of your job. However, the way that we use … Read more
What Do CIOs Need To Know About Cyber Insurance?
When you are the CIO, you deal with things like servers, networks, firewalls and the like. You are not generally called on to deal with other business related issues such as insurance. However, with the rash of ransomware attacks and denial-of-service attacks that have been happening, CIOs are now being asked to help out when … Read more