Tag: CIO Role

October 28, 2022

“As a first-time CIO, there are things you’ve never done before, and conversations you’ve never had before, at this level, in this role,” recounts Sarah Cockrill, who is one year into the director of digital strategy and information technology position […]

May 22, 2019

Technology/business evangelist is a fairly new position in many companies, but an absolutely necessary one and well worth the price tag to maintain resilience and relevance. In this day and age affective communications between the C-suite stakeholders, vendors, partners, potential […]

April 24, 2019

It has become cliché to say the world is getting more complex with every passing day. Increased access to vast amounts of information, social media, and ubiquitous computing make it seem as if the complexity of our world is increasing […]

February 11, 2019

Architecture and design firm Perkins+Will views technology as a catalyst for change, which isn’t surprising, given that digital transformation has become a business imperative for most organizations. What is notable is that CIO Murali Selvaraj’s team developed an app to […]

February 8, 2019

I was never a particularly good surfer. I did manage to stand up on a board when I was a junior lifeguard. But I did become a reasonably good body surfer. As a body surfer, you would look for two […]

February 6, 2019

Digital is the age of innovation. Innovation, in general, is surely a management discipline. To keep relevant, IT has to shift its reputation from a cost center to the innovation engine of the organization. In fact, IT plays a crucial […]

January 28, 2019

The influence of technology across businesses of all industry and size continues to rapidly expand. Can the same be said when it comes to the influence of CIOs who lead tech organizations? Up until 2018, CIO influence had been growing […]

October 25, 2018

A recent McKinsey article states that cyberattacks are costly, and they appear to be broadening in scope. Every corporate boardroom and even federal, state and local government agencies are discussing how to avert cyber threats. The State of Georgia is […]

July 18, 2018

Now that the build-up to GDPR is over, I wanted to get a sense for CIOs progress at implementing GDPR. Given this, I asked the #CIOChat which covers a broad range of industries. Their answers should be valuable to all […]

June 22, 2018

I fielded a question at last week’s Enterprise Transformation Exchange on how CIO can get their CEO and the Board to think of IT more strategically and beyond a cost center. While many CIO have had success moving from back […]

June 11, 2018

Artificial Intelligence (AI) affords a tremendous opportunity not only to increase efficiencies and reduce costs, but to help rethink businesses and solve critical problems. Yet for all the promises AI holds, there’s an equal amount of anxiety, across economies and […]