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We all know that IT provides value to the rest of the company, but how much value? That’s the question that CIOs are always trying to answer. Dr. Jim Anderson tackles this issue by taking a look at what HP’s former CIO Randy Mott did. It turns out that he found a way to solve … Read more
When your IT employees aren’t complaining, that means that you’re doing a good job as CIO, right? Actually, it turns out that the answer is no. Dr. Anderson identifies why having quiet employees may be a bad thing for CIOs. He identifies who in your IT department is going to speak up first and … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson looks into why so many high-profile CIOs have been getting fired lately — could it be because they weren’t great CIOs? Dr. Anderson identifies the 5 different things that every CIO needs to do in order to become a great CIO. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter … Read more
Why has IT / Business alignment been on every CIO’s to-do list for over 20 years? Dr. Jim Anderson examines why what seems to be such a simple task has turned out to be so hard to do Dr. Anderson identifies the 6 things that every CIO needs to do in order to get … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson looks into why so many high-profile CIOs have been getting fired lately — could it be because they weren’t great CIOs? Dr. Anderson identifies the 5 different things that every CIO needs to do in order to become a great CIO. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson tackles the question that all CIO’s are asking: just exactly what is “cloud computing”? Dr. Anderson identifies the 4 different flavors of cloud computing that are available and points out how a CIO would go about using each one of them. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson explains why there are some problems that an IT department just can’t solve — because they are wicked problems. Dr. Anderson identifies why traditional IT problem solving techniques won’t work with wicked IT problems and how you can determine if a problem is really a wicked problem. Get a free … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson discusses an outage that happened at the London Stock Exchange. Dr. Anderson identifies what may have caused the London Stock Exchange outage and if cloud computing could possibly help prevent this from happening again. Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: http://goo.gl/NOfh2
Dr. Jim Anderson explains the issues that CIOs need to be aware of when they are evaluating using cloud computing. Dr. Anderson identifies seven issues with moving a company’s applications and storage into the cloud. He explains how CIOs need to go about dealing with each of these issues. Get a free subscription to … Read more
Dr. Jim Anderson explains why IT departments have such a hard time communicating with the rest of the business — we use too many terms to describe the same things! Dr. Anderson explains the idea behind an IT dictionary and then presents a case study of Best Buy who was faced with 400-500 IT terms … Read more