How Can CIOs Keep Workers In Touch With Each Other?
CIOs need to find ways to allow their employees to stay in touch while at the same time making sure that they don’t become overloaded
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What Can Amazon Teach CIOs About Being Successful In The Cloud?
As CIOs are busy creating projects to move more and more of their IT infrastructure into the cloud, they are always looking to other firms in order to get direction on what the best way to go about doing this is. We all know that Amazon offers one of the most popular cloud products and … Read more
Changing Times Cause CIOs To Change Their Priorities
CIOs need to understand that even the best laid plans can get changed based on current events and we need to be able to create new plans
How To Avoid Having Unengaged Employees On Your Team
When you have new people join your department, they generally do so with a great deal of excitement – they understand the importance of information technology. There are a lot of things that they want to accomplish and they are looking forward to learning many new things. However, over time this has a habit of … Read more
Skills That Every CIO Needs To Have
Congratulations on having your company make you the CIO. However, now what? As the person with the CIO job, you are going to have to use your skills to solve a range of challenging technical problems. However, you’re not going to be able to do this by yourself. You’ll need help from everyone who is … Read more
CIOs Need To Help Workers To “Like” Their Jobs More
I’ve got a quick question for you: what’s the most popular site on the web? If you said “Facebook”, then I think that you’d be correct. Almost without exception, each and every person at your company may be visiting this site at least once each day to tell their friends what they’ve been up to. … Read more
4 Steps CIOs Need To Take To Make Their Process Improvement Projects Successful
Pity the poor CIOs who gets the idea that what his IT department needs to do this year is to implement a process improvement project. It’s not that these types of projects are a bad thing to do, it’s just that all too often they don’t actually work out. Well, that was before we had … Read more
CIOs Want To Know Why IT Process Improvement Programs Fail
It seems as though at least once a year CIOs get a bee in their bonnet and decide that the company’s IT department needs to knuckle down and improve its processes. This means that it’s time to implement one of those far-reaching process improvement programs. Oh, oh. No matter if it’s Six Sigma or some … Read more
In IT, Bigger is NOT Necessarily Better
Way back in my young & foolish days I had the opportunity to work at a couple of startups. I came to them after having worked for very large firms such as Boeing, Siemens, and Alcatel. Needless to say the environment, attitude, and overall energy level at the startups was completely different from the large … Read more