Tag: cio

October 22, 2021

Work-life balance, the loose principle through which you evenly split your time and focus between work and personal activities, benefits individuals and corporations in equal measure. A healthy work-life balance can improve health, productivity, job retention and turnover, and in-turn […]

October 13, 2021

CIO Paul Blowers describes the past 16 months at accounting firm Plante Moran as “a grand experiment” in getting work done. Throughout, Blowers has flexed, reconfigured, and stress-tested his mostly remote, 120-person IT team to determine how productivity, creativity, and […]

October 5, 2021

It’s a challenging time for IT leaders helping build businesses back better, with some of their biggest challenges being finding the workers, skills, and budget to deal with the workload. That, at least, is what IDG Research found in its […]

September 29, 2021

Micromanaging, wasting precious time and energy on tasks that could easily be handled by a department chief or other IT team member, is a common CIO trait, particularly among newcomers to the job who are more accustomed to receiving instructions […]

September 21, 2021

Most roles and responsibilities in the C-suite are fairly distinct and well defined: CFOs are responsible for all financial operations; COOs oversee daily operations; and CEOs manage the entire enterprise, for example. With CIOs and CTOs, however, roles and responsibilities […]

September 14, 2021

Veteran CIOs can remember a time when they had to fight for the board’s attention, eager for a seat at the strategic table. Today, all eyes are on IT as technology has taken center stage in all aspects of corporate […]

July 23, 2021

We now know the story of how, over the past decade, the CIO role has transformed to be that of a coach. IT has morphed into a democratized DevOps team, requiring a new model for leadership. A bevy of new […]

June 29, 2021

The wall separating IT and line-of-business units began to crumble decades ago, around the same time that the role of chief information officer (CIO) – an executive responsible for bridging the IT-business gap – first emerged. Today, IT and business […]

May 19, 2021

IDG’s 2021 State of the CIO survey was conducted in the wake of 2020’s unprecedented business disruptions around the globe. The survey found that – among other impacts – the pandemic cemented the CIO’s strategic business role, as organizations turned […]

May 3, 2021

Paul Heard has been leading IT initiatives for more than 20 years, but nothing he’s experienced before matches the pace of change, organizational pressures, and uncertainty that CIOs have faced over the past year. “The pandemic has changed the dynamics […]

April 20, 2021

CIOs are garnering plaudits for digital transformations that fortify operations and generate new revenue streams. But before IT leaders can initiate a bet-the-house overhaul, many must foster a far more foundational transition: IT culture change. Such turnarounds are essential for […]

March 31, 2021

CIOs in every industry are looking to improve diversity in their IT organizations. As such, many are asking some critical questions: What are the inhibitors to increasing diversity in the technology professional community? Why do people drop out of the […]

February 16, 2021

Most CIOs were, at previous stages in their careers, IT managers. Unfortunately, despite raises in pay and responsibility, many CIOs continue to behave and perform like managers rather than C-level executives. An IT leader who can’t shake loose from bygone […]

January 20, 2021

Last year, CIOs were unexpectedly put in the spotlight to accelerate their companies’ digital transformation journeys in the face of unprecedented workforce health concerns, facility access limitations and a global recession. These conditions persist into 2021 and require us to […]

March 24, 2020

Historically, the CIO and CMO rarely interacted. That’s changing, though, as digital marketing tools and apps take hold and increase in number, complexity, and importance. In the first phase of marketing automation, the marketing team was usually the primary decision […]

March 16, 2020

Gartner has recommended three short-term actions that chief information officers should take to prepare for business disruptions as a result of the coronavirus health crisis. “With such a dyanmic situation like COVID-19, it has the potential to be as disruptive, […]

October 8, 2019

The average age of an S&P 500 company has now shrunk to less than 20 years, down from 60 years in the 1950s – and this is largely down to widespread technological disruption. From FinTech to ManufacturingTech and even BeautyTech, […]

September 11, 2019

Building strong, positive relationships has always been important for any executive. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is no different. As CIOs move from a traditional mindset to that of a transformational CIO, the importance of key relationships comes into focus. […]

July 18, 2019

Over almost 30 years of IT industry experience, I’ve found that the key business relationships technology vendors and solution providers tend to value most highly are often with chief information officers (CIOs). The CIO is commonly the highest-ranking IT resource […]

May 31, 2019

CIOs have come to disdain digital transformation as a concept because it’s meaning has been rendered nebulous from overuse. You can blame CIOs who use it as a euphemism for modernization, including migrating from legacy on-premises systems to cloud software, […]