The Accidental Successful CIO

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CIOs Need To Help Remote Workers Start To Rethink How They Work

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Things will never again be the same Image Credit: Janine CIOs have to start to deal with the fact that everything has changed. None of us saw the Covid-19 pandemic crisis coming and when it did, it turned everything upside down. All of the changes that had to be implemented were required so that the business could keep operating even when nobody was allowed to come into work.

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CIOs Search For Ways To Help Their Companies Become More Efficient

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CIOs have to decide where to spend their time Image Credit: schnaars It seems as though there is more for CIOs to do now than there ever has been before. No matter if it is dealing with trying to decide what applications we should be moving into the cloud, trying to secure the company’s networks, or working out hybrid-work arrangements with our staff, very clearly our plates are quite full.

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How Should CIOs Deal With Flexible Hours Requests?

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What workers really want is the ability to choose their hours Image Credit: Robert Davies As a modern, post-pandemic, CIO we have a lot of new and challenging things that we have to deal with. One of the biggest is determining if we are going to allow our workers to be remote some or all of the time. However, as big of an issue as that may seem, it turns out that there is an issue that is even more important to our workers: just exactly when they come to work.

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CIOs Have To Find Ways To Keep Their Smart Offices Safe

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CIOs have to find ways to keep hackers out of their smart offices Image Credit: Richard Patterson Let’s face it: our workplaces have continued to evolve over time. Today’s workplace does not look anything like it used to. We have computer controlled air conditioning and heating, lights turn off when nobody is in the room, and elevators automatically know where we want to go.

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How Do CIOs Have To Change To Be Successful In The Future?

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CIOs have to change in order to prepare for the future Image Credit: chintermeyer Being a CIO today is definitely a real challenge. The world seems to be moving faster than it ever has before and between pandemics and hiring challenges, it seems as though a CIO’s work is never done. However, if there is one thing that a CIO understands, it’s that everything changes.

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How CIOs Can Make Technology Available To All

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Technology is only valuable if everyone can use it Image Credit: Michigan Municipal League As a CIO, you understand the value of technology to the company that you work for. Technology has the ability to make things move faster, make work easier, and to allow the company to be more successful in its marketplace. However, what we often don’t spend a lot of time thinking about is that not everyone responds to a given technology in the same way.

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How Can CIOs Avoid Groupthink?

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What CIOs are the most likely to fall for groupthink? Image Credit: kirybabe I’m pretty sure that most CIOs have heard about groupthink by now. We all know that what we really want to do is to surround ourselves with people who think differently than we do. Our goal is that when issues come up, we can bring the brightest minds to the table and generate a wealth of different ideas.

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