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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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Sustainability: A Million-Dollar Opportunity for the CIO

December 14, 2011
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Print PDF The CIO is in a great position to lead sustainability initiatives at a corporation. Why? Because like information technology, corporations must weave sustainability into the fabric of the enterprise to generate the opportunities that companies like The Dow Chemical Company, SAP and Intel have orchestrated. Their successes are featured in: “Sustainability: Moving from Compliance to Leadership.” To generate revenue, Dow Chemical created a Sustainability Chemistry Index, which increased its sales of sustainable chemistry ...

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Time is Running Out for the CIO to Lead on Social Media

November 7, 2011
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Print PDF When I was setting my clocks back this weekend for Daylight Savings Time, I started thinking about how some CIOs are at risk of getting left behind on social media. The current situation is similar to what transpired at the dawn of e-Commerce back in the mid-90s. CIOs were dragging their feet on e-Commerce rollouts so the sales and product teams took matters into their own hands. They hired outsiders and cut CIOs out of ...

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The Ultimate High Performing Teams

November 8, 2010
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Print PDF Last week was a big one for me and for Diamond.  It marked the beginning of a new chapter for both as we joined forces with PwC.  Much remains to be seen as with any new adventure, but it promises to be a high performing combination for our clients. The week was filled with events geared to bring the two companies together to get to know one another, both as individuals and as ...

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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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Does Your Business Have a Decision Making Model?

October 15, 2010
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Print PDF Larry Dignan (@ldignan), ZDNets Editor in Chief, recently referenced a post written by my friend Vinnie Mirchandani at Deal Architect.  In it, Vinnie makes several interesting assertions about the effectiveness of analytics in the enterprise.  For example, he thinks that many companies can’t or don’t want to deal with the truth in the data because they won’t like the answers. I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics and its role in business decision ...

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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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