The Accidental Successful CIO

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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Long Emails?

The Accidental Successful CIO

It turns out that long emails are bad Image Credit: Tamera Clark As CIOs, despite having access to some of the most sophisticated communication tools available, most of us still do most of our communicating via emails. Not just a few emails, but a whole lot of emails. When we send an email out, there is a very good chance that the person that we sent the email to will reply to it.

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How CIOs Can Prepare For The “Network Generation” Of Workers

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Is social media awareness a good thing or a bad thing? Image Credit: Gauthier DELECROIX – 郭天 CIOs have a responsibility to create an IT department that can help the company move forward. We need to be able to attract and retain the best workers who will be able to deal with the technology challenges of the future. As we prepare to onboard the latest crop of graduates, we may pause and wonder what we are getting ourselves into.

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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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A New Way For CIOs To Hire IT Managers

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CIOs need to come up with a new way to interview job candidates Image Credit: Mirko Tobias Schäfer As the person with the CIO job, it’s also your job to make smart hiring decisions. You want to invite the right set of managers to join your IT department so that you can share the importance of information technology with the rest of the company.

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Should CIOs Allow Workers To Use Their Own Devices?

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CIOs are searching for ways to make employees feel empowered Image Credit: transmediale One of the biggest issues that CIOs have been facing over the past few years has been the question regarding what to do about worker’s personal technology. The people who work for us have been making major investments in mobile phones, laptops, and tablets.

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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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CIOs Try To Decide If Wellness Programs Are A Good Idea

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The big question is do they work? Image Credit: Army Medicine CIOs everywhere are in the middle of trying to make their work environments more attractive to their employees. The pandemic changed everything and now we’re struggling to try to get staff to come back to the office while at the same time trying to prevent them from leaving the company.