The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every CIO starts out a year with a clear set of goal: things that we want to get done because of the importance of information technology. When these changes happen, CIOs are faced with two choices: make no changes and hope for the best or adjust their plans to match the new set of realities that they find themselves dealing with.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But the economic turmoil doesn’t mean your competitors are going to stop investing in technology – CIOs still need to spend to improve operational excellence. But the economic turmoil doesn’t mean your competitors are going to stop investing in technology – CIOs still need to spend to improve operational excellence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

Here is a short list of recent considerations for CIOs as they work with their teams to shore up their defenses. No list of strategies and techniques does the ransomware problem justice, as the bad guys continue to innovate. CIOs and CISOs must remain eternally vigilant. Adversaries continue to innovate. And how do you tell?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

CFOs want certainty when it comes to spend. Meanwhile, CIOs want certainty when it comes to funding. CFOs have grown comfortable with the traditional project-based approach, through which they believe they get a better handle on spend certainty and a better sense of ROI. For CFOs, persistent funding can raise concerns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Seemingly since the beginning of time, CIOs have been working to change their IT organizations from “order takers” into “business partners.” Raise the credibility of the IT organization” continues to appear at the top of the wish list that our clients give to our firm when we launch a new CIO search.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity got the people in the CIO position thinking. The work from home period gave the person with the CIO job a chance to rethink what their offices would look like when employees returned. That left a lot of workspace wide open. However, is there a better way to set things up? Goodbye To The Open Office?

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 14, 2017

CIOs have a responsibility to teach their staff how to manage millennials Image Credit: Scott Lewis. As the person with the CIO job it is your responsibility to make sure that your direct reports are doing a good job of managing their staff. What Is The Best Way To Manage Millennals? What Do These Kids Want?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But even though hybrid working is here to stay, organizations may still lack the cybersecurity controls and business-grade internet connections, like SD-WAN, that are required to support remote and hybrid workers. Once you’ve got distributed employees all over the place, how does IT get visibility? The network was never built for that.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2018

As the person with the CIO job, you have a very important question that you have to find the answer to. We spend a great deal of time thinking and learning about technology because we understand the importance of information technology. The person in the CIO position has more technology at their control than ever before.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 15, 2016

There are some folks out there who claim that within a few years, marketing will be spending more on IT than the CIO but many IT professionals I speak with just have a hard time accepting that marketing will ever drive more spend on tech than IT does/will. The spend on MarTech five years ago was generally small.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

In addition to partnering with third parties to access the required data, van der Waal also had to work closely with Travelex’s marketing and product teams — as well as data privacy and security execs— to come up with different theories on why someone might not spend the money on their cards, and then create the most appropriate messaging.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

This post is sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP’s Make It Matter. The Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA ) advocates for the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information technology systems. By Bob Gourley.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2023

One factor driving global transformation is the push to bring healthcare services, as well as responsibilities and control, closer to consumers. There’s revenue generation, the compliance aspect, operational efficiency, and legal. The following are edited excerpts from the podcast.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most CIOs and IT staffers remain, at heart, technologists, with many proclaiming their interest in shiny new tech toys. a faculty member at the National Association of Corporate Directors; and an active member of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium community. They’re not the only ones enthralled by tech. Consider some recent survey findings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The main purpose of our digital transformation is to help create superior solutions for daily problems of millions of consumers around the world, while generating growth and value for all stakeholders,” says Vittorio Cretella, CIO of P&G. “We These things have not been done at this scale in the manufacturing space to date, he says.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Or when you walk out of the room, does everyone kick back, fire up their laptops, and sign into Facebook in order to chat with their friends? As the person with the CIO job, you want everyone in the IT department to be spending their time working to move the company forward. Who works in your IT department? Finding The Deadwood.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

Kellen, CIO at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), says employees are already using ChatGPT to write code as well as job descriptions. And in the transportation industry, he says, “AI can directly or indirectly impact the avoidance of transport, the steering of transport, and the management of transport.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2023

For IT leaders who find themselves in this situation, and that’s most of you, it’s time to focus less on “managing the narrative” around AI and more on capturing the value associated with this important technology. Boards need to be assured that organizations are spending enough and moving quickly enough.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Translating the CEO’s strategy Another legacy organization, 105-year-old The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), has “a specific focus on elevating data and digital fluency” across the organization, says Sastry Durvasula, CIO and client services officer. At his company, anyway.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In order to hold on to their jobs, CIOs need to know how to not get fired. As CIO, you have a highly visible position within the company and there is a lot riding on you. What Does A Company Expect From Its CIO? The CIO runs the IT department. What Can Cause A CIO To Get Fired? Image Credit: Bill Alldredge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This article was co-authored by Ishan Prakash , a Manager at Metis Strategy. Once relegated to a role of support, the function now can inform entire strategies as critically as it does key processes or core products. By Gartner’s estimations, overall IT spending will grow in 2024 by 8%, more than double that of 2022 and 2023—2.9%

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 17, 2016

Silos exist inside and outside of IT, CIOs need a plan to deal with them Image Credit: Rex Hammock. As the person with the CIO job at your company, you have control over the domain of IT. What’s a CIO to do when he or she encounters a world that is filled with silos? What Can CIOs Do About Silos?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Which in turn means many of IT’s SLAs are no longer anything IT can even influence, let alone control. The second type of charge-back takes the company’s total IT spend and spreads it across the company on a per-capita basis, so there’s nothing left to argue about. What makes IT organizations fail? You have two alternatives.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2014

As CIO, because of the importance of information technology, you need to get ready to deal with the disruptions that that arrival of even more mobile technology is going to create. As the person in the CIO position you need to understand who wants to connect with who and find ways to make it happen. It’s All About Security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 17, 2023

After the podcast, we spent some more time discussing how the rise of generative AI is impacting the CIO role, essential skills that must be developed across the workforce, and a playbook every organization needs to get in place now to be able to innovate in this complex and challenging environment. We need that kind of leadership.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2013

What’s the person with the CIO job to do? How does any problem between team members start? I believe that this problem existed long before I took over control of this department. When team members don’t get along, everyone suffers Image Credit. How The Problem Started. In all honesty, I’m not quite sure.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

CIOs Need To Plan For Who Comes Next Image Credit: Xiaojun Deng. Wow – it sure was hard to get the CIO job. You do realize that you are not the last CIO that your company is ever going to have – because of the importance of information technology there will be others who follow behind you. Do you know how to go about doing this?

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 8, 2015

IT staff can only grow in their jobs if the risk level is manageable Image Credit: epSos.de. As the person with the CIO job, you want to be in charge of the best IT department possible. However, it’s really the people that you have on your team and their skills that are going to control your career.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 27, 2016

CIOs need to know when to make use of encryption Image Credit: Yuri Samoilov. Due to the importance of information technology, the person with the CIO job has been handed the responsibility of keeping the company’s information assets safe. As the CIO you need to realize that you have two different collections of data.

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Eric D. Brown

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Good news and bad news for CIOs – The CIO Leader. Quote : So are we seeing the start of a trend in which boards are turning to external consultants instead of their own CIOs? And is this just to validate the CIO’s views or are consultants being used to fill gaps in the CIO’s experience, skills, credibility or capability?

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2016

Department of Transportation's CIO, describes four components for what I call an “enterprise data strategy”: Data governance. Managing data is not the same as analyzing it. Making the data analysis process – the tip of the Big Data spear -- effective and efficient is where good project planning and management come in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To cater for continued flux, growth, scalability, security, and cost control. All of that before we even think about managing data. Figure 1: Triggers to migrate and modernize can be found across the organization and can come from either side: Strategy, Operational, or a mix of needs, driven by the desire to innovate and optimize.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The priority for CIOs is to genuinely position IT as an integral and inseparable part of the business. IT needs to transform from a controller to an enabler: Many IT organizations still run in the industry mode -built to last, not responsive enough to adapt to changes. To transform IT from a controller to an enabler.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2016

However, many IT organizations still run in a reactive mode or act as controller only, slow to change. However, the disconnect does exist, and it is caused by miscommunication, or “lost in translation” syndrome, because each functional executive or manager speaks in their own dialect without the common understanding.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Summary: Over the past couple of years, CIOs and IT leaders have faced a pop quiz of sorts: How quickly can your company adapt to unexpected challenges? In this article, we explore 5 challenges that CIOs and IT leaders should watch in 2022. In this article, we explore 5 challenges that CIOs and IT leaders should watch in 2022.

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Future of CIO

JUNE 26, 2019

CIOs must make three mind shift in order to run a high mature digital IT organization. CIOs must make three mind shift in order to run a high mature digital IT organization. From the “maintaining” mindset to growth mind: Traditional IT spend most of their resource and talent on “keeping the lights on” only.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

CIOs are well positioned to cut costs since they’re usually well acquainted with a company’s digital processes, having helped set them up in the first place. But each company’s revenue operations are different, he adds, and CIOs should understand their companies’ business needs as well as the AI itself.

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