CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. I would say, right now, I’m a technologist last.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Frank LaQuinta is head of digital, data, and operations at Edward Jones, a role that encompasses responsibility for the financial services firm’s technology, digital, and data leadership, vision, and strategy. And I view them at both an enterprise level and a senior leadership level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

Here are three strategies designed to help CIOs and others maximize their return not just on AI, but all essential tech. Especially in IT organizations—where budgets came under more scrutiny in 2023—CIOs need to show they’re not using AI for AI’s sake. A version of this story originally published on The Works.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. CIOs need to find a better way to get the best managers to join their IT departments. We’re not talking about entry-level hires.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. However, it turns out that cost of email reliance may be more far-reaching than CIOs previously knew.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Next CIO cohort sat with Natalie Whittlesey and James Lawson from InX to discuss how to transition into a first time C-suite role. Next CIO workshops are designed to support the Next CIO cohort into their first CIO role. However, the transition from CIO-1 to CIO entails a significant mindset shift.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver more digital innovations faster and more efficiently. But speaking to many IT leaders, there are often gaps between how IT runs Scrum, Kanban, or other agile practices and what CIOs need in order to achieve digital transformation objectives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2024

For IT leaders seeking a new position, condensing an extensive and storied employment history into a short, readable resume can be daunting. It may seem like window dressing, but familiarizing yourself with current resume style and format trends is crucial for a career move at the leadership level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2023

I asked CIOs and other high-level IT leaders to recommend books that have impacted their career, whether that has meant inspiring them to be better leaders or helping them navigate a particular challenge. And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 16, 2023

CIOs have to help them out. Image Credit: Scott Lewis If you think about it, CIOs are responsible for everyone who works for the company. How are CIOs supposed to help older workers who may struggle with the introduction of new technologies? CIOs need to understand that the story doesn’t end there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But CIOs who have successfully led IT transformations say that embracing change can be richly rewarding —especially when the change is so obviously for the better. Today’s CIO audience doesn’t just read about IT and leadership trends and strategies. That is an idea worth embracing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Her story was maybe five minutes long,” says the author of The Mark of a Leader. “But That short story completely changed the mood in the room.”. The founder of Stories Rule! There are three ways that human beings communicate—with assertions, with facts, and with stories,” he says. Assertions are statements or opinions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. True to his customer-first, business-focused leadership style, he is actively involved with customer interactions as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2022

Her story was maybe five minutes long,” says the author of The Mark of a Leader. “But That short story completely changed the mood in the room.”. The founder of Stories Rule! There are three ways that human beings communicate—with assertions, with facts, and with stories,” he says. Assertions are statements or opinions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

A love of narrative is a constant factor of the human state; scientists put it down to a feel-good hormone called oxytocin, but whatever the reason, who among us can resist a rich story, engagingly told and amply illustrated? Why tell stories? Often, CIOs use stories as a form of Esperanto or a translation layer. “I

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 21, 2022

Few have had a greater impact on the CIO profession than Charlie Feld has. An industry legend, Feld shaped the CIO role decades ago and has gone on to change the narrative about technology and to transform entire industries. That’s the story. Now it takes four years’ worth of engineering school to learn security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

He will bring his story and lessons about leadership and disruption to the FutureIT Washington, D.C. Forward-thinking businesses are realizing the role of the CIO in using technology to achieve business outcomes – especially in today’s uncertain economic times. conference taking place May 11 at Convene.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2022

CIOs have a lot to gain by working with their C-suite colleagues, if for no other reason than to gain a better perspective on different areas of the business. Here are some important ways a strong CIO-CHRO relationship can give organizations an edge by impacting key business objectives. Honing strategic hiring priorities.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2017

End of story. However, then there is that pesky leadership thing. However, I see leadership as being something that people do because they want to and even after you leave the room a well lead group of people will keep working. Sir Richard Branson with all of his Virgin companies has learned how to do leadership well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Deepa Soni’s CIO story is one of sacrifice, breaking through comfort zones, and building confidence in redefining the art of the possible. On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , Soni and I unpacked her leadership philosophies and business-centric approach to technology. Can you expand on that?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2023

Get ready to ask questions to our experts, participate in discussion groups and learn about modernizing your digital enterprise with cloud, AI and security. CIO and IDC present a brand-new conference to hit Toronto’s downtown tech leadership scene. Sara Fenwick, VP Technology at Ren’s Pets and Liese Coroy, CIO (Sr.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Generac Power Systems’ Tim Dickson is an award-winning CIO who drives transformative change through technology and talent. Afterwards, we spent some more time discussing the changing role of the CIO, the story he’s writing around data and AI, how he gets the most from his strategic vendor partner relationships, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We proudly announce the launch of the CIO Tech Talk Community, an exclusive online community brought to you by Foundry (publisher of CIO, CSO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, Network World, and other technology sites). IT Leadership Click here  to take the membership qualification survey.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2023

Last year, we embarked on an incredible journey with the launch of the CIO Awards Canada program. Their success stories continue to reverberate, driving innovation in the Canadian tech landscape. What sets the CIO Awards Canada program apart is its unwavering focus on recognizing the exceptional work happening right here in Canada.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and generative AI, questions have arisen regarding the continued relevance of the CIO title and whether it accurately reflects the evolving nature of the job. We have too many 'Chief' titles that are not actual Executive Leadership Team members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Discovering these unique individuals, and then elevating them to positions where they can achieve maximum effectiveness, is a skill that every CIO should learn. Spotting promising talent requires keeping a close pulse on both the enterprise and its people, says Carter Busse, CIO at business automation technology provider Workato.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Ralph Loura’s journey to his current role as Lumentum’s senior vice president IT and CIO encompasses some of the most well-known technology and consumer products companies around, including Rodan + Fields, Hewlett-Packard (HP) Enterprise Group, Clorox, Cisco, and Lucent Technologies. Can you unpack those a bit? .

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 8, 2020

CIOs need to prepare for a world where models run everything Image Credit: Bander AlMutlaq. If you are the person with the CIO job, the rest of the company is looking at you for help in making your company more competitive. How Continuously Learning Models Will Change The Future. It turns that this can be done.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

com In order to be an effective CIO you need to have a good understanding of how your employees are currently feeling. Traditionally what most CIOs have done is to create a survey and then send it out to have their employees fill it out. Most CIOs don’t do anything with the results anyway. This remains as important as ever.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2023

While CIOs may be acutely aware of the essential value their teams create, that value isn’t always evident to stakeholders and clients. Giant Eagle EVP and CIO Kirk Ball notes that you can’t separate technology from the business anymore; technology is the business. Perception matters, particularly for internal IT organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

Reis, CIO at the University of Miami Health System and Miller School of Medicine, has been able to grow his head count during both the pandemic and the Great Resignation, a feat he attributes to the fact that people who work in healthcare tend to be mission-driven. Staff retention can often be a CIO’s Achilles’ heel.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2023

It’s not uncommon for CIOs, CISOs, and sometimes their direct reports to be called on to participate in board meetings or to present IT strategies and plans to their boards of directors. They answer vaguely or lack anticipation CIOs and CISOs need to understand what information is important to share at the board level.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2023

Micro/macro-economic success depends on crafting behavior-shaping ‘monetary policy stories’ that capture hearts and minds. Stakeholder behavior is influenced and can be adjusted with “stories.” In his fascinating book The Sound of Leadership: Presidential Communication in the Modern Age , Roderick P. IT Leadership, IT Skills

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. After the show, we spent some more time talking about the mission of NACD and her advice to CIOs and CISOs who aspire to join a board.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2020

If you are like most CIOs, you’re instinctive answer to that question is “our people” That’s a good answer; however, if we were to take a look at how the IT department goes about hiring people , I think that we’d discover a different story. So just exactly who are CIOs looking to hire these days?

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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.” Yes, most IT leadership teams have stronger relationships with their business partners than, say, five years ago, but there is still a long way to go. They won’t wait for IT.”

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