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  • Think Tank: Tips for IT strategic planning success

    We all know that we need to get more value from information technology investments. That means IT projects, portfolios and priorities must be aligned to those of the business. IT strategic planning is often used as a tool to achieve this alignment and turn the business needs into results. But it is often not that easy! Many organisations develop a strategic plan but successful implementation is still difficult. Like in golf or chess, rules are well known but consistent performance is still hard.

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 23 April 11 08:00

  • Seven key imperatives of full spectrum leadership

    Let’s open the aperture for a more expansive view towards a ‘full spectrum’ approach to deep consciousness within a framework that combines seven imperatives of leadership.

    Written by Bruce Carlos • 14 April 11 15:27

  • Full spectrum leadership

    The business sky is clear, the view expansive and the opportunities are boundless. You want to be more than a great leader, to burst from effective management to full spectrum leadership where you will use your deeper insight and sharpened skills to change behaviours, build leadership and achieve outstanding results.

    Written by Bruce Carlos • 14 April 11 15:09

  • 5 things I've learned - Ben Wrigley

    As the director of information technology for InterContinental Sydney, Ben Wrigley understands the importance of people in the technology equation

    Written by Ben Wrigley • 04 Feb. 11 11:54

  • Think Tank: Fad-free performance management

    IT magazine articles and whitepapers regularly publish articles on, ‘building a high performing team’, ‘reinventing the workforce’, ‘transforming the organisation’ and the like. They include stories from large — usually overseas — companies where the CIO has turned an under-performing organisation around (with the help of a brand name consulting firm with their brand name methodology). Local CIOs and IT managers read the articles and begin to believe they too need a major transformation program in order to turn their IT organisation into a ‘world-class’, ‘high-performing’ organisation.

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 01 Oct. 10 10:46

  • Head in the cloud

    In the Harvard Business Review’s May 2003 edition, author Nicholas Carr created a long-running storm of controversy with the article ‘IT doesn’t matter’. It spawned a countless succession of articles in both industry and academic circles. About a year later he followed the article with a published book, Does IT Matter? in which he expanded and clarified further on his controversial themes.

    Written by Scott Stewart • 08 Sept. 10 12:18

  • CIOs Should Think Horizontal for Stack Architecture

    It seems many things in our industry come in vertical stacks. We have vertical network stacks, we have vertical protocol stacks and now we have vertical cloud stacks.

    Written by Gary Beach • 15 June 10 07:33

  • Tell the executives your security story with metrics

    I recently wrote about the importance of measuring performance to get funding, resources and support for security initiatives. Executives, who ultimately decide how company resources are rationed out to various departments, are particularly focused on key metrics. It's these metrics that differentiate projects and convince executives to spend money and time and increase head count.

    Written by J.F. Rice • 26 May 10 01:54

  • CFOs to CIOs: You Work for Me Now

    Who's the top IT decision-maker inside companies today: The CIO, right? Ahhh, no. The CEO? Guess again. The CTO? Nope.

    Written by Thomas Wailgum • 12 May 10 13:00

  • Hey CIOs, Your Proteges Want Better Work Experience

    Hands-on experience leading an enterprisewide project is the best way to get ahead, according to an exclusive CIO magazine survey of 100 respondents identified by their managers as up-and-coming IT leaders.

    Written by Carolyn Johnson and Joab Jackson • 05 May 10 04:55
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    Think Tank: Becoming a performance driven organisation with balanced scorecards

    A balanced scorecard turns a strategic plan from a passive document into marching orders for the troops.

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 03 Aug. 09 12:23

  • The evolution of the network engineer

    IT is undergoing one of the most significant transformations in recent memory -- yet most IT practitioners (including telecom managers) are only dimly aware of what's happening.

    Written by Johna Till Johnson • 03 July 09 03:11

  • How CIOs Can Best Influence Stakeholders

    Julie Ouska, CIO & VP, Information Technologies, Colorado Community College System

    Written by CIO Executive Council • 23 April 09 03:50

  • CIO Development: Growing the Next IT Leaders

    The role and expectations of IT have changed from service provider to innovator, strategist and service source. CIOs have to adopt a new approach to fulfil these expectations.

    Written by Gordon Watt and Brinley Platts • 04 March 09 09:22

  • The Cloud: What Clayton Christensen Can Teach Us

    Clayton Christensen's book, The Innovator's Dilemma, is a touchstone here in Silicon Valley. His book examines the process of innovation as it attempts to answer the question "why do most new technologies seem to come from startups and not from established companies that are also familiar with the technology?" He cites many markets as examples, including tube table radios (displaced by transistor radios), cable-driven steam diggers (displaced by hydraulic diggers), and disk drives (where successive waves of technology were represented in shrinking form factors) that brought new companies to the fore at each new wave. In each of these markets, according to Christensen, innovation shook up the established way of doing things and propelled new market entrants past companies that had dominated the previous technology.

    Written by Bernard Golden • 16 Jan. 09 06:31

  • Are You Misusing the CIO Title?

    "A CIO should be enabling the business to grow. If all the CIO does is oversee tech systems, he or she should be renamed 'tech manager'," declared Louis Ehrlich

    Written by Rick Pastore • 03 Dec. 07 13:25

  • Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

    As you flip through the pages of your Rolodex (or more likely, your Outlook database), some standard categories of contacts will regularly appear: past colleagues, former bosses, executive recruiters, vendors and the like

    Written by Martha Heller • 05 July 07 10:08

  • The CIO of the Future

    You wouldn't expect a traditional CIO to manage the process of, say, opening 10,000 seasonal locations and hiring 100,000 seasonal employees, and then be asked by the CEO to run a line of business in addition to the IT function

    Written by Louis Ehrlich and Marc West • 05 June 07 12:10

  • An Architecture for the Future

    Today, organizations need to learn to make workflow changes on the fly.
    Otherwise, consumers and trading partners alike are ready to move on.

    Written by James M. Kerr • 07 May 07 13:36
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