CIOs See Their Jobs Change As The Business Also Changes
CIOs are seeing their job start to change as more and more departments are building their own IT infrastructure
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CIOs Try To Decide If Wellness Programs Are A Good Idea
CIOs who want to help their IT workers to become healthier may consider implementing a wellness program but they often don’t work
How Can CIOs Avoid Getting Locked Into One Vendor’s Cloud?
As more and more CIOs move their company’s IT infrastructure into the cloud, the importance of the cloud is becoming more and more important. I’d like to be able to tell you that all of that work that you put into selecting the right cloud provider for your company is a “one and done” type … Read more
A Health Care Startup Realizes That They Need CIO Help
Just exactly how important is a CIO? A startup health care company tried to accomplish the creation of a new way for patients to purchase prescriptions online; however, they quickly ran into problems and failed. This time around they understand that things have to be different. This time around they’re hiring a CIO to help … Read more
What CIOs Need To Know About Negotiating Better Deals
Let’s face it, one of the most important jobs that a CIO does is to negotiate deals. No matter if we are dealing with outside vendors or internal departments, it sure seems as though because of the importance of information technology a great deal of our time is taken up with trying to get the … Read more
CIOs Seek GE’s Help In Maximizing How Factory Equipment Is Used
CIOs have discovered that they have a bit of a problem on their hands. The equipment that General Electric (GE) sells, power plant electrical gear, etc. to run factories is so big and so complex that nobody really understands how to use it correctly. The GE products can be tuned to run at a peak … Read more
CIOs Fix Outsourcing Problems By Putting The Fox In Charge Of The Chickens
I’m sure that by now you’ve read some of the stories that are out there about CIOs who managed to get themselves into outsourcing contracts that turned out badly. The reasons that the deals took a turn for the worse are many and varied, but the end result is the same: the CIO’s customers were … Read more
5 Trends In Outsourcing That CIOs Need To Know About
Back in the golden days of outsourcing, CIOs could just pick up the phone, get in contact with the head of their outsourcing contractor in India or China, and scale their team up or down as conditions required. However, times have changed and now that everyone is starting to understand the importance of information technology, … Read more
Is This The Death Of Offshoring?
Once upon a time, offshoring was the answer to every CIOs dreams. It offered a great way to significantly grow the IT department while at the same time reducing the total costs of running the department. What make it even better was that somebody else had to deal with the real-world issues of managing people … Read more
Why The Singapore Exchange Problem Is The CIO’s Fault
Stock exchanges are challenging businesses to run. The people who use stock exchanges, stock traders, banks, brokers, etc. move very fast. The phrase “time is money” was invented to describe these people. They have a desperate need to be able to communicate with other people in a very rapid and very reliable way. Literally millions … Read more