How CIOs Deal With Mobile Disruption

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As CIO, because of the importance of information technology, you need to get ready to deal with the disruptions that that arrival of even more mobile technology is going to create. The customers that your company serves are going to expect to be able to interact with the company using their mobile phones more and … Read more

What A CIO Needs To Know About Throwing A Proper Retreat

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Every CIO is looking to solve the same puzzle: what do they have to do in order to get the most productivity out of their IT department? It turns out that sometimes the solution to this puzzle is to temporarily forget the importance of information technology and take the IT department out of the company … Read more

3 Ways That CIOs Can Do A Better Job Of Hiring The Right Person

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When you have the CIO job you realize that your success rests not on the importance of information technology, but rather firmly on the shoulders of those people who are on your team. What this means is that the process of hiring someone is a critical step in your career. Hire the right person and … Read more

How Can CIOs Prevent Their Team Members From Burning Out?

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Isn’t it the dream of every CIO to have a fully committed team? A team that understands the importance of information technology and what you are trying to accomplish as a team, has fully bought in to that dream, and is aggressively working to achieve your goals? It turns out that there is a dark … Read more

New Book: CIO Business Skills

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In order to be a successful CIO, you need to know how to work with the rest of the business. Get the book that tells you how to do this: Click here for the Paperback, Kindle, or Audiobook Download. Click here for the epub, mobi, pdf, rtf, lrf, pdb, txt, or html.

Should The CIO View The CMO As Friend Or Foe?

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If there is one fact of life that everyone who has the CIO job has had to learn to deal with, it’s that our IT budgets never seem to be big enough. However, it turns out that there is someone else in the company who does not have the same problem: the CMO. In fact, … Read more

5 Ways CIOs Can Make Innovation Happen In Their IT Departments

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“More innovation, please!” This is what CIOs have been hearing on a daily basis for the past few years. I think that we all understand why we’re being asked to help out, everyone understands the importance of information technology and they believe that this is where the innovation that will help the company out will … Read more

The CIO Has To Know What Innovation Really Looks Like

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As the person with the CIO job, you are probably under a lot of pressure to have your IT department be more innovative. CEOs everywhere are telling the press that in order for their company to be successful, innovation is going to have to happen within the company. This is all fine and good, I … Read more