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The CIO Through the Eyes of the CFO

January 13, 2012
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Print PDF Guest post by Phil Garland I had the opportunity to have lunch with 8 chief financial officers in Denver last week.  Our conversation started with why the CFO should care about IT and what they need to know about technology. Our discussion quickly got to the topic of the roles of the CIO in this changing world of cloud, mobility and social networking.  These enabling technologies have made technology much more accessible to ...

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The Agile CIO as a Business – IT Marriage Counselor

April 1, 2011
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Print PDF Guest post by Tim Mattix and Mike Mariani If the relationship between developers and business users is like a marriage, sometimes the CIO’s job is akin to a marriage counselor. In a marriage, one spouse often wants the other to change. In the market, business executives want change, too; changes in the way systems operate so they can capitalize on new opportunities. And often the complaints in both situations are the same. It’s ...

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Business Innovation or IT Innovation?

October 5, 2010
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Print PDF Business Innovation or IT Innovation – Video Blog Transcript In the most recent issue of Sloan Management Review, Sloan introduced a new study they are doing along with IBM called the New Intelligent Enterprise. In the study, they surveyed 3000 executives and asked them for their top priority over the next two years. They didn’t answer cost, or growth, or risk, or agility – they said “to achieve competitive differentiation through innovation.” Contrast ...

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How a CIO Can Help Improve America’s Education

September 30, 2010
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Print PDF I love the Ocean’s movies, although the middle one was pretty weak.  In Ocean’s Thirteen, there is a scene in which Danny Ocean (Clooney) catches Rusty Ryan (Pitt) watching Oprah with a tear in his eye – all while enjoying a nice glass of red.  Funny stuff.  But I have to admit that I just watched an episode of Oprah – the entire episode.  The show focused on the problems with America’s schools ...

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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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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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5 Roles for IT Innovators

March 15, 2010
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Print PDF What is IT’s role in innovation? Is it just about making IT better or is it about driving business value too? We asked 592 business and IT leaders in the US and UK this question in our latest Diamond Digital IQ survey by asking them to choose what innovation role they thought their CIO and IT organization played from the following list: Improve the IT Function Improve Business Processes Improve Customer Service Reach ...

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IT Czar – A New IT Leadership Role?

January 14, 2010
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Print PDF With the NFL playoffs in full swing*, most of the league’s teams are on the sidelines thinking about how to get better for next year. Most of the introspection involves evaluating coaches and players. One new front office hire that is particularly interesting is Cleveland’s recruiting of Mike Holmgren as its new president. He is known as the architect of very successful Green Bay Packers teams (75-37 record) and the cultivator of a ...

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