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How a CIO Can Help Improve America’s Education

September 30, 2010

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 and a ...

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The Journey of a Business Strategist CIO

September 28, 2010

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 value to ...

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CIO Guest Blog Series – The CIO’s Journey

September 27, 2010

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 drive innovation ...

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Why Aren’t CIOs Using Cloud Storage?

September 2, 2010

I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to speak at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony last week, with an audience of so many IT leaders who are driving business growth through innovation. As we all have witnessed, the early results from enterprise cloud computing initiatives have been mixed. During my presentation, we conducted a real-time survey via text messaging and I’d like to thank the 50+ CIOs and IT leaders who participated, as well as ...

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Inside the Huddle: Connecting Strategy with Execution

July 23, 2010

Co-authored with John Sviokla

Weâ€™ve hit the point in the summer when football training camps are almost upon usâ€”one of our favorite times of the year. Football, in our opinion, more than other American sports, exemplifies the three dynamics we at Diamond use in assessing a companyâ€™s â€œDigital IQâ€â€”Strategy, Mobilization, and Execution…...

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Thoughts on IT Cost Cutting

July 19, 2010

During a recent business re-org, one of our long-time insurance clients took the opportunity to strengthen their enterprise IT function by centralizing it. One of their first orders of business is to review the IT estate for opportunities to simplify. Before I get into Diamond’s answer to this, I thought it would be interesting to see what others would do. So, I asked the Twitter #CIO crowd for their top 3 ideas for IT cost ...

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The Customer Information Officer

June 10, 2010

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 – here’s ...

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Governance, Analytics and Standards

May 6, 2010

Today was the first day of MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) sponsors board meeting. CISR is a research program funded by 70+ companies that looks into important strategic management issues facing IT and its leaders. While the center’s name has “information systems” in its name, the groundbreaking research it produces is more about the planning, governance, investment, risk and innovation approaches that add the most to businesses, rather than software or specific technology ...

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CIO Guide to Cloud Computing

April 8, 2010

As with any new IT buzzword, IT leaders must figure out what is really new and what is an old concept with a new name. Many argue that cloud computing is a truly new concept while others explain it as clever packaging of outsourcing, web accessible tools and a few pricing models. What is clear is that it has taken us by storm and promises to simplify large chunks of IT budgets across infrastructure and ...

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