How To Avoid Having Unengaged Employees On Your Team

What you really want is for the members of your IT department to be engaged

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

When Cyberattacked, Should CIOs Share Information About The Experience?

The person with the CIO job, you, is the person who is responsible for securing the company against attacks from outside. We all know that try as we might, we’re not going to be able to prevent the bad guys from trying to break into our networks. However, given that we know that they will … Read more

What A CIO Needs To Know About Throwing A Proper Retreat

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

Why Do CIOs Make Everyone Jump Through Hoops To Get Things Done?

In every business, there are internal conflicts. One conflict that almost every company seems to have is the failure of the business side of the house to see eye-to-eye with the IT department. This has been going on for so long that it’s almost a part of the definition of information technology. As CIO, it’s … Read more

IT And Business: How Risky Is Too Risky?

In every business, there are internal conflicts. One conflict that almost every company seems to have is the failure of the business side of the house to see eye-to-eye with the IT department. This has been going on for so long that it’s almost a part of the definition of information technology. As CIO, it’s … Read more

IT And Business: Where Is All That IT Money Going?

In every business, there are internal conflicts. One conflict that almost every company seems to have is the failure of the business side of the house to see eye-to-eye with the IT department. This has been going on for so long that it’s almost a part of the definition of information technology. As CIO, it’s … Read more

CIO vs. CFO: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

I’ve got some bad news for you. CIOs are unhappy. It turns out that a lot of CIOs are now reporting into the company’s CFO instead of its CEO. This means that the CFO is in charge and the CIO feels that he or she is not. Things can’t go on this way. What can … Read more

CIO Cloud Computing 101: Problems With Clouds

Cloud computing is all the rage these days and everyone who is anyone is making plans to implement at least some flavor of it as soon as possible. It turns out that the decision to go with a cloud computing solution for your IT department might not be as simple as some would lead you … Read more