CIOs and CMOs: What’s Going On With This Relationship?

Making a company be successful is tough work. For this to happen, it’s going to take a great deal of work on everyone’s part and, tougher yet, everyone is going to have to find ways to work together. As a CIO this means that you are going to find yourself having to work with the … Read more

CIOs Need To Take Care Of Their Younger Workers

As the person in the CIO position, I’m pretty sure that by now you’ve come to realize that not all of the workers at your company are the same. It turns out that some of these workers need a little bit of extra help from your IT department. You might instinctively think that I’m talking … Read more

CIOs And The Art Of Succession Planning

Wow – it sure was hard to get the CIO job. Just think for a moment about all of the various positions you had to rise through in order to finally obtain the top spot in IT. You do realize that you are not the last CIO that your company is ever going to have … Read more

Your Employees: Turns Out They Can Say Anything They Want Online

As the person with the CIO job, how can you tell if you are doing a good job? Sure, there should be all of the standard business indicators – your IT budget is operating within its budget, you are meeting the needs of the rest of the company, the network is secure, etc. However, another … Read more

How To Make Your Business Process Management (BPM) Mobile Friendly

So just exactly what is a business process? In a nutshell, it’s how your company does business. Now this might sound rather simple to you, but it turns out that most of the business processes that our firms use to do business are complicated multi-step beasts and are increasingly dependent on the importance of information … Read more

CIOs Need To Learn How To Manage Digital Cowboys

In the modern IT department, CIOs are called upon to perform many different tasks. I believe that we can all agree that one of the most important of these tasks is managing and mentoring the next generation of IT leaders. Today’s new arrivals seem to be so different from when we joined the firm that … Read more

CIOs Need To Know: Is There Such A Thing As Safe Social Networking?

Congratulations CIO: the world that you are operating in has become a lot more complex lately. What this means for you is that you’re going to have to determine what the new rules are for being successful in this world are and how to maximize the importance of information technology for your company. One area … Read more

5 Secrets A CIO Needs To Know In Order To Create A Social Media Plan

Darn that social media stuff! Just when you thought that the job of being a CIO couldn’t get any tougher, along comes this whole new way for the world to communicate. The arrival of social media has just boosted the importance of information technology. What makes things even tougher is that the rest of the … Read more

Social Media And The CIO – Can We Talk?

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram — these social media tools seem to be occupying the news every day. If anyone had any doubts about the importance of information technology, the arrival of social media has changed that. If you want to hold on to your CIO job for a very short time, feel free to ignore them … Read more