• Panel: Future CIOs will have careers blending non-tech roles with traditional IT duties

  By Fred O'Connor | 23 May, 2012 21:35

  Next-generation CIOs will have to consider how technology affects other corporate departments as well as handle traditional IT management functions, especially those accompanying mobile device management and greater data analysis, according to panelists who spoke at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• Outsourcing Allows Utility to Refocus IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 23:44

  Consumers Energy has hired an outsourcer to take over some of its day-to-day IT operations, and it hopes the move will allow its own data center workers to focus on projects that directly impact its bottom line.

• For the NFL, Big Is Better -- Except in IT

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 May, 2012 20:11

  The National Football League may have big stadiums, big players and big games, but when it comes to computer systems, the league's vice president of IT, Nancy Galietti, doesn't use the word big.

• CIOs don't need to be business leaders

  By Bernard Golden | 19 May, 2012 06:25

  I have seen pieces asserting that future heads of IT will be from disciplines such as marketing or finance, since technology really isn't that important anymore. I've even seen analyses that say that CIOs no longer need to manage technically capable organizations because infrastructure is being offloaded to outsourcers and on-premise applications are being displaced by SaaS applications.

• How to make your viral video go 'Kony2012' crazy

  By Aaron Lester | 17 May, 2012 10:24

  Anyone who has spent time trolling social networks, reading a newspaper or just browsing the Internet recently has probably heard of Kony 2012, the mega-viral cause, marketing video that seemed to pop up out of nowhere and captured the attention of millions.

• Five things CIOs should know about big data

  By Joab Jackson | 15 May, 2012 01:56

  Five key points CIOs should know when considering big data

• Top CIOs predict future of the CIO role

  By Kim S. Nash | 24 April, 2012 00:32

  Five years from now, the CIO will be a better, faster, stronger version of today's top IT leader, practically running the company single-handedly. Or maybe other business executives will become more educated about IT and decide to hire cloud companies to do it all, leaving the poor CIO to wither, enforcing service-level agreements for a living. For almost as long as there have been CIOs, we've heard breathless speculation about whether the position will last, and if so, in what form.

• Working with HR - Part 2

  By Tim Mendham | 18 August, 2011 11:37

  Stephanie Christopher, national director of SHL Australia New Zealand, a company which assists companies — including recruitment firms — in their recruitment activities, says that for the more technical positions HR has to fill, “it would lean toward the line manager for advice; it would be the line manager who would have final say”.

• Working with HR - Part 1

  By Tim Mendham | 17 August, 2011 13:50

  Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: “Managers aspire to be strategic, but they are required to fulfil their duties as a functional expert.”

• The leadership formula: IQ + EQ +SQ - EGO - Part 3

  By Darren Horrigan | 04 July, 2011 10:14

  Yvette Vignando has been working for 11 years as an executive coach specialising in emotional intelligence. She describes EI as her soapbox issue. Vignando says people often arrive to executive management after many years in a technical or semi-technical role, but rarely with any management or leadership training.

Whitepapers about CIO role

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  Learning To Compete: IT’s Next Transformation

  CIOs must become competitive players in managing relationships between IT and the business. Megatrends like virtualization, consumerisation, cloud computing, and mobility are forcing a new model for operating IT. This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC explores this transformation as a leadership opportunity, as an opportunity to create new models for IT, and as a catalyst to fundamentally change the dynamic between IT and the business. Embedded videos feature CIOs from T-Mobile USA and Wharton School of Business and a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers.

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  The Big Six: The CIO Executive Council’s Frameworks for IT Value and Leadership

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  CIO Executive Council ROI

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  The Pathways ICT Leadership Development Program Brochure and Curriculum 2012