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The number of IT leaders who sit on the management team, 37 percent, also declined this year, by 10 percent. The majority of respondents (54 percent) aren't members of their companies' executive management teams. (According to our 2008 State of the CIO research, 71 percent of IT executives report sitting on their companies' executive management teams.)
Nevertheless, CIOs think they're making strides on the IT-business alignment front: Some 73 percent of respondents believe their IT departments are integrated "well enough" with the business, according to the Harvey Nash survey.
CIO compensation is increasing at the same time that CIOs feel their influence is waning because employers see compensation as a way to attract talent — especially from larger companies — and address turnover, says Anna Frazzetto, Harvey Nash's vice president of technology solutions. According to the survey, CIO turnover hovers around nine percent per year.
The survey also shows that companies might improve CIO retention if they gave their CIOs more responsibility as opposed to more money: One-fourth of CIOs surveyed say they'd be happier with their jobs if they had more management responsibility and decision-making authority.
CIOs who want to improve their standing with the executive management team should be proactive, says Frazzetto. "The role of the CIO has always been perceived as reactionary to the demands of the company," she says. "The more CIOs can switch that, and be more proactive and talk about the technologies that can help their companies get a competitive advantage, they more they'll find themselves engaged at a strategic level."
They survey was conducted online between November 15, 2007 and January 18, 2008. See Harvey Nash's website for full survey results.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
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CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
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Chris Hoff on Virtualization and Cloud Computing 20 November, 2008 10:55:00
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Cybersecurity is focus of new start-up incubator 20 November, 2008 07:19:00
Texas uni announces the Institute for Cyber Security.The University of Texas at San Antonio Tuesday announced a technology incubator aimed at fostering IT security-based start-ups within the state. - +
Dilip Sarangan on Physical Security M&A 20 November, 2008 11:18:00
Dilip Sarangan tracks physical security companies for Frost & Sullivan. He expects the industry's "need to have" products to weather the economic storm well, with the big players (now including IBM and Cisco) looking for value-priced acquisitions. - +
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Quality assurance plan targets security assessors and scanning vendorsThe PCI Security Standards Council Monday unveiled a plan to sharpen oversight of the hundreds of security-service providers now authorized to evaluate merchant networks under the organization's Payment Card Industry data standards.
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AARNet Brings 4K Digital Cinema to Australia: First 4K HD Video Signal delivered into Australia by AARNet 20 November, 2008 12:02:00
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