The Accidental Successful CIO

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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Long Emails?

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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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CIOs Have To Find Ways To Deal With New Cybersecurity Rules

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CIOs deal with changing rules regarding cybersecurity Image Credit: Stock Catalog As though CIOs didn’t already have enough to deal with, it turns out that the rules are changing on us. Cybersecurity has always been a big deal for our firms; however, the U.S. government is starting to understand just how big of a deal it is. It turns out that if your company suffers a cybersecurity attack, it could have an impact on your company’s ability to stay in business.

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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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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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