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Closing the Expectations Gap

October 25, 2010
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Print PDF Guest Post by Louie Ehrlich, President Chevron Information Technology Company, and CIO, Chevron Corp. Note: This is the second in a series, check out part 1 first – The Journey of a Business Strategist CIO In my last post, I mentioned that the third step in moving towards the “business strategist” CIO is elevating the stakeholder relationship from one of service provider to one of a true business partner. After my stint as ...

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The Journey of a Business Strategist CIO

September 28, 2010
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Print PDF Guest Post by Louie Ehrlich, President Chevron Information Technology Company, and CIO, Chevron Corp. The CIO Executive Council developed the Future State CIO® program in 2007 because we wanted to define the future of the CIO role, rather than letting the future define us as CIOs. We’ve seen a lot of progress and believe that now is the time to help CIOs focus on the journey we must travel to deliver the greatest ...

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CIO Guest Blog Series – The CIO’s Journey

September 27, 2010
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Print PDF The CIO Executive Council is a great champion of the CIO’s cause.  This year, the group is focusing on how to navigate the journey CIOs must follow to move through the three stages of the CIO role: functional head, transformation leader and, ultimately, business strategist. The Council’s vision is of a “The Future-State CIO®” who: adopts a more company-external focus and concentrates the majority of his or her time on using information to ...

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A CIO’s Own Learning and Development Plan

August 19, 2010
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Print PDF An article in the latest Fast Company describes “How TED Became the New Harvard – Only Bigger.”  TED and Harvard are certainly not the same kinds of animals, but TED has introduced us to a broad set of ideas and is delivering them in brand new ways.  After watching the videos from afar, I’m planning to attend TED in 2011 and will certainly blog about it.  New models for learning and networking like ...

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The Customer Information Officer

June 10, 2010
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Print PDF Jack Cassidy, Cincinnati Bell’s CEO spoke to a group of CIOs the other night about the CEO’s perspective of the CIO and I was lucky to attend. In a friendly but direct way, he provided a “swift kick in the pants” to the audience (yes, swift kick in the pants is something my dad says). He asked the group to rank the C-level execs in terms of their importance from the CEO’s perspective ...

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Will the CIO Lose the C?

April 1, 2010
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Print PDF co-authored with John Sviokla There is some disturbing new data for the role of the CIO.  Thomas Wailgum of CIO.com says, “Given the… warning signs, it’s easy to speculate that the CIO’s role and the department’s sovereign power might be slip-sliding away.”  Half of our Diamond Digital IQ Survey respondents said that more than 30% of the dollars spent on IT is done outside of IT.  Power in any organization usually follows those ...

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CIO Careers: Learning from System Quarterbacks

October 28, 2009
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Print PDF Kyle Field at Texas A&M Photo by StuSeeger After an embarrassing loss to Kansas State last weekend, my Texas A&M football team responded with a resounding whooping (that’s a Texas term) of the Texas Tech Red Raiders Saturday in Lubbock, racking up a 52-30 victory.  This is a big win for our program, for sure. Whenever the discussion involves Texas Tech, the idea of a “system quarterback” usually is in the mix.  The ...

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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?

May 5, 2009
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Print PDF by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1.  That the majority of new jobs are sourced through “weak ties,” not close relationships. (I never heard this before, but ...

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CIO Tenure: What is Wrong (if Anything)?

April 22, 2009
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Print PDF Along with IT project failure rates, the average time a CIO stays with a company is one of the most often quoted metrics in our trade. Recent studies cite that 1 in 4 CIOs are fired for poor performance and CIO’s have an average tenure of 4.4 years. These don’t seem to bode well for the CIO. Why is the tenure so short?  And, is this seemingly short tenure really a bad thing? ...

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